[Bob434]

[[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?

[jjsheridan5]

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.