Originally Posted by
TSORon
If your prescription toothpaste is that much of a major concern to you, then pack it in your checked luggage. You can transport 4 gallons of it there if you like, the TSO’s wont care. But don’t tell me that your 7 ounce tube of toothpaste is a medical necessity during your flight. Sophistry is the most polite response you are likely to get.
Thanks, Ron -- great advice when your suitcase can easily end up 5,000 miles from where you are, or lost for days or weeks. First rule in packing: do not pack money, valuables, or prescription drugs in checked luggage.
Given TSA's remarkable inability to consistently detect actual weapons (like guns and knives) in tests, it is beyond my understanding why they spend any time at all worrying about a tube of toothpaste. One can only wonder how much safer we'd be if TSA put its efforts into training screeners to effectively and reliably detect guns and knives, and gave up on the shoe carnival, the water idiocy, and the kippie bag.