Clogged toilet, friend or foe?

If you live in New York City, you're more likely to have a clogged toilet, according to Scott Tissue and Clog Clinic. This sounds like a joke, but sadly, it is not. (See "Toilet Issue: New York City Named Nation's Cloggiest.")

The SCOTT Clog Clinic, an authority on common-sense solutions for avoiding stopped-up toilets, sponsored the survey to help Americans understand just how much of a nuisance a toilet clog can be and to offer common-sense ways to avoid such toilet-paper dissolve-ability problems. The release of the survey also comes as National Plumber's Day is on April 25...

Clog Clinic researchers say toilet clogs frequently occur during heavy flushing periods -- like halftime of the Big Game and Black Friday, the day after the Thanksgiving feast...

On behalf of the SCOTT(R) Brand, the Ketchum Global Research Network commissioned a survey to determine the cloggiest markets in America.

Specifically, the survey sought to quantify: [Snarky comments, mine.]

• Cloggiest & least cloggy among DMA cities and C&D counties
• Americans' experience with clogged toilets Mostly good
• Feelings about clogged toilets Happiness
• Type of items flushed down a toilet Combs, pets
• Perceptions of clogged toilets It couldn't possibly happen to us
• Knowledge about clogged toilets Toilets don't clog, do they?