It continues;Big soda bans may be spreading around the country.The mayor of Cambridge, Mass. has proposed limiting the size of soda and sugar-sweetened beverages sold in city restaurants, saying she was inspired by a similar measure in New York City.The American Medical Assn. voted Wednesday at its annual meeting to adopt a policy that recognizes soda taxes as one way to pay for antiobesity programs, and that says any such tax revenue should go to programs to treat obesity and related conditions.
@FoFa: This stuff is stupid as long as someone exercises enough they can eat what ever they want and not get fat. What is really ironic about this is soda is so cheap because the corn uses to make the corn syrup used to make the soda is subsidized so essentially we subsidize the corn but then get p*ssed off because the corn products are so cheap and then tax them.Â
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