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So is breathing, as technically, every breath you take is one closer to your last breath...
That being said, it is not the governments responibility to make sure I only drink X amount of Soda a day/year/week/month, whatever.
If it wants to spend $$ on propaganda to convince me to stop drinking it, fine. if it tries to social engineer me by banning it, restricting it, or making assinine laws to discourage me from drinking them, then it can go to hell.
You can drink as much as you want. There is nothing wrong with getting people to think about the damage that they are doing to their bodies.
Then convince them with words, not by passing stupid regulations that are NOT the responsibility of government.
Convince me, don't force me.
I'm dead set against the passage of a law banning a particular size of soda but "convincing" will never do anything more than education.
People know that sugary soda is poison to humans. They also know that fatty, salty non-food is as well, not to mention cigarettes.
Education does nothing. Raising prices might help but really, Americans WANT to be fat, diabetics with lung cancer, and they want to get free treatment at the ER under the EMTALA law.