It's come to this; your hot dog represents a choking hazard for younger children, according to a couple of doctors who did a study. Therefore, the only sensible thing to do is to require warning labels on weenie packages, and maybe a "public awareness" campaign to "educate" the idiot parents.
As it is, warning labels are plastered on darn near everything you can find in a typical American home. Does anybody bother to read them, anymore? There's such a thing as overload, and we've probably already passed that point.