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.
Wait till they ban aspartame. That will cause more than a ripple of outcry.
Smoking & soda are out. Weed is in. Beam me up!
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.
There’s a black market opportunity I could get on board with.
“Drinking soda pop will one day be like smoking on an airplane”
Wanna bet?
I actually switched back to sugar (in very limited amounts).
Artificial sweeteners are worse than sugar.
Yeah, I don’t know. I’ve never gotten pop in my nose when someone else was drinking it.
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.
[[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?
” . . . 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.
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.
In Philly, the soda tax has led to folks consuming more booze. WTG, progs. Great public policy there.
When I am nauseous or have vomited, I drink ginger ale or Sprite. There are other times when a good Coca Cola is the only thing that will soothe my stomach ills. When I have a migraine, Tylenol accompanied with Coke can sometimes nip it. There is a reason pharmacists concocted soda medicines. But ignorance is bliss.
Today’s Coke is not the same as what the pharmacists used to mix up. Heh. My daddy was a pharmacist. And I grew up in Mississippi. Sixth graders always had a field trip to Vicksburg where we visited the civil war battlefield. I’m not sure if we also visited the pharmacy where the first bottled Coke was made or if I did that on a field trip with a smaller group. We were proud to say that the first bottled Coke came fromMississippi.
Oh how I long for the Coca Cola and Dr. Pepper and 7up of the sixties. Especially the Cola flavored Icees of the sixties, so much more tastier than the soft drink flavored slurpees we have today. So sue me. Kids these days have no idea.