Washington, D.C. – The U.S. State Department has warned airline travelers  and visitors attending the Winter Olympics not to brush their teeth while enroute to Russia or while in Sochi.

Classified intelligence has indicated that bombs and bomb-making device may be hidden in innocently-looking toothpaste tubes. Apparently, it is a new strategy employed by terrorist elements that have, in the past, planted explosives in shoes and underwear.

The State Department has suggested that instead of brushing their teeth, people should just gargle with vodka.