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Drinking soda pop will one day be like smoking on an airplane (barf alert)
Chicago S-T ^ | 18aug 2017 | Elissa Bassler

Posted on 08/18/2017 7:52:31 AM PDT by rellimpank

Five or 10 years from now, Americans will look at cheap, sugary drinks the way they now look at smoking on airplanes and in restaurants — as a really bad idea.

Cook County, having recently implemented a tax on sweetened beverages, is at the forefront of this movement to encourage people to transition to healthier drinks. But the county’s leadership role is in jeopardy. The beverage industry and retailers are pushing hard to repeal this tax. We can’t think of a worse idea.

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---posting this as either a laughable piece of filler material garbage or a testimony to how far "columnists" have sunk---
1 posted on 08/18/2017 7:52:31 AM PDT by rellimpank
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To: rellimpank

No it wont!

I think sugar is evil. Refined sugar is virtually a metabolic poison. But there is no “second hand” soda pop. People are free to give themselves insulin resistance all day long.


2 posted on 08/18/2017 7:54:26 AM PDT by z3n
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To: rellimpank

Wait till they ban aspartame. That will cause more than a ripple of outcry.


3 posted on 08/18/2017 7:55:46 AM PDT by x_plus_one ( I pray Gods eyes may once again gaze upon me and remind me that I am still His child.)
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To: z3n
But there is no “second hand” soda pop.

Unless somebody burps.

4 posted on 08/18/2017 7:56:16 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: rellimpank

Smoking & soda are out. Weed is in. Beam me up!


5 posted on 08/18/2017 8:01:58 AM PDT by FES0844 (G)
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To: rellimpank

Ah, yes. The government brown shirts have now decided that drinking soda pop isn’t to their liking. Soda pop out of favor with the government and, of course, this is for your own good too. So to help you they have decided to start placing their heavy jackboot on your neck to “encourage you” not to drink the stuff.


6 posted on 08/18/2017 8:02:14 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: rellimpank

There’s a black market opportunity I could get on board with.


7 posted on 08/18/2017 8:02:33 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: rellimpank

“Drinking soda pop will one day be like smoking on an airplane”

Wanna bet?


8 posted on 08/18/2017 8:07:18 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: rellimpank

I actually switched back to sugar (in very limited amounts).
Artificial sweeteners are worse than sugar.


9 posted on 08/18/2017 8:12:48 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: rellimpank
Well, they say you are what you eat …


10 posted on 08/18/2017 8:14:57 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: rellimpank

Yeah, I don’t know. I’ve never gotten pop in my nose when someone else was drinking it.


11 posted on 08/18/2017 8:17:46 AM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: z3n
"People are free to give themselves insulin resistance all day long."

Liberty until I am taxed to pay for those folk's self inflicted health care needs. There is the quandary.

12 posted on 08/18/2017 8:37:54 AM PDT by buckalfa (Slip sliding away towards senility.)
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To: FES0844
Smoking & soda are out. Weed is in. Beam me up!

Ain't that the truth.

13 posted on 08/18/2017 8:39:00 AM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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To: rellimpank

If we are at the point of outlawing bad ideas, then outlaw reading the inanity that shows up in the Chicago Sun Times every day too.


14 posted on 08/18/2017 8:45:45 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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[[Five or 10 years from now, Americans will look at cheap, sugary drinks the way they now look at smoking on airplanes and in restaurants — as a really bad idea.]]

Why is that? Because people will get second hand diabetes?


15 posted on 08/18/2017 8:47:06 AM PDT by Bob434
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” . . . movement to encourage people to transition to healthier drinks . . .”

Total bull-pucky - it’s Cook County, they’d tax the air you breathe if they could figure out a way to monitor it and invent an excuse to rationalize its introduction as a favor they’d be doing you. It doesn’t matter how much sweetner a drink has, whether it’s natural or artificial, it gets hit with a penny an ounce tax that just perpetuates their corrupt machine.


16 posted on 08/18/2017 8:49:22 AM PDT by Stosh
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Doesn’t this soda tax exempt persons on welfare and food assistance who are purchasing potentially taxable drinks from being assessed the tax? It seems to me that somewhere along the line, I read that the soda taxes that was created by one of the states had exempted those on food stamps and public assistance.


17 posted on 08/18/2017 8:56:01 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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To: Bob434
Why is that? Because people will get second hand diabetes?

Obviously not. The rationale for banning activities like drinking soda in public will be two-fold, both borrowed from the (fascist) methods used to demonize smoking.

First, health care costs. You have the right to kill yourself, but you don't have the right to harm yourselves such that others have to pick up the tab (that is their argument, not mine -- mine is that people should never be forced to pay for someone else's health care in the first place. But that is moot ...)

Second, to protect the children. Drinking soda in public normalizes the activity. This means that children will see the activity as acceptable. So this means that all of your public activities, including what you drink in public, are subject to the review of self-appointed professional buttinskis. Once again, borrowed from the (fascist) anti-smoking crusade.

People may scoff at this, and get a good laugh at it, but I would strongly suggest not betting against it (and other smoking-derived fascist control attempts) happening. The left is on the move, and is bringing with them judges, the media, culture, half of the elected Republican party, and no small number of "conservatives" who unwittingly carry their water.
18 posted on 08/18/2017 9:01:03 AM PDT by jjsheridan5
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I don’t drink sodas every day, but I will be &*(^(^%&% if I give them up just to please some health Nazi. If it means the difference between checking out at 75 versus 80, I’m OK with that. Life without an occasional root beer isn’t worth living.


19 posted on 08/18/2017 9:35:03 AM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: Nothingburger

Your decision. But it is *their* decision whether to throw you in jail, or take your money, for your decisions. And, we voluntarily (and unnecessarily) gave them that right to do so.


20 posted on 08/18/2017 9:38:46 AM PDT by jjsheridan5
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