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New York Plans to Ban Sale of Big Sizes of Sugary Drinks
The New York Times ^ | May 30, 2012 | MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM

Posted on 05/30/2012 7:26:28 PM PDT by John W

New York City plans to enact a far-reaching ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, movie theaters and street carts, in the most ambitious effort yet by the Bloomberg administration to combat rising obesity.

The proposed ban would affect virtually the entire menu of popular sugary drinks found in delis, fast-food franchises and even sports arenas, from energy drinks to pre-sweetened iced teas. The sale of any cup or bottle of sweetened drink larger than 16 fluid ounces — about the size of a medium coffee, and smaller than a common soda bottle — would be prohibited under the first-in-the-nation plan, which could take effect as soon as next March.

The measure would not apply to diet sodas, fruit juices, dairy-based drinks like milkshakes, or alcoholic beverages; it would not extend to beverages sold in grocery or convenience stores.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: ban; foodnazis; foodpolice; freedom; government; health; looneyleft; michaelbloomberg; nannybloomberg; nannystate; nyc; sugar
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To: John W

Is Bloomberg a mayor or a dictator? Getting hard to tell the difference...


61 posted on 05/30/2012 8:46:34 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: John W

Remember the Seinfeld Episode about the Water Saving Shower Heads?


62 posted on 05/30/2012 8:47:39 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Confucius say, short note better than long memory....)
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To: ThunderSleeps
“It’s for your own good” sounds so good, and is the death knell of freedoms and liberties.

You know what's good for me? Freedom. Freedom is what's good for me.

63 posted on 05/30/2012 8:48:06 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: John W

So can people buy two medium sizes at once - if not, will they get their hand stamped so they can’t buy one medium size and then come back and buy another - where does it end?........


64 posted on 05/30/2012 8:51:36 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: John W

Keep it up, Bloomberg. I say more power to you. They elected you, right? Keep it up until the 10-15% of the populace who still has their sanity decides it’s time for a violent overthrow.


65 posted on 05/30/2012 8:52:38 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
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To: Lurker
...but you’ll be able to buy a Margerita...

Probably not. Salt on the rim...

66 posted on 05/30/2012 8:55:20 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: SamAdams76
Just give them time. Soon they will be banning the multiple sales of smaller drinks.

LOL! "First they came for my Big Gulp..."

67 posted on 05/30/2012 9:01:37 PM PDT by sargon (I don't like the sound of these "boncentration bamps")
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To: The Antiyuppie
"Can you imagine someone from 1970 with a time machine reading this article? They would wonder just what the hell happened here."

Actually, 1970 is the precise year the law was passed banning cigarette advertising from TV and Radio. There were at least a few people then who said exactly what the hell was going to happen here.

They were soundly ridiculed.

68 posted on 05/30/2012 9:14:06 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: John W

This is pathetic.


69 posted on 05/30/2012 9:20:44 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Liberalism: Carrying adolescent values and behavior into adult life.)
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To: John W
The measure would not apply to diet sodas

I'll have the < wink, wink> diet Coke.

After that works for a couple of years, Bloomberg will have the police train dogs to sniff sugar.

70 posted on 05/30/2012 9:33:33 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
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To: John W
So if you order a 24 oz Diet Coke, yet fill it with Regular Coke at the self-serve area, what will actually happen?

Drone strike?

71 posted on 05/30/2012 9:37:54 PM PDT by MacMattico
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To: SamAdams76

Next they’ll make soft drink makers liable for damages for any customer who gets diabetes or a heart attack.


72 posted on 05/30/2012 9:40:20 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: John W

Do it Libs. Create another black market that you can skim money from you human pieces of crap.

Keep it up and don’t come asking me, in Tennessee, for money when everyone tells you to shove it or leaves NY. And if you want to use union violence to force people, then don’t whine when you get shot.

Go to hell you left wing retarded morons.


73 posted on 05/30/2012 9:40:20 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Democrats are dangerous and evil. Republicans are just useless and useful idiots.)
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To: John W

Just how and why in hell does a city administration get to decide what product a person can buy! Good God Almighty wtf have we come to?


74 posted on 05/30/2012 9:41:43 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: John W

Let’s ban liberals! Globally!!


75 posted on 05/30/2012 9:46:56 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (nobody gives me warheads anyway))
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To: John W

Unbelievable. Just as ridiculous as the soda ban, is that fruit juices and diet drinks aren’t included. Mega sized fruit juices are pretty much just as bad as soda in terms of sugar/fructose content. Diet drinks aren’t much better. I can’t wait for my local gov’t to pull a similar silly-assed stunt.


76 posted on 05/30/2012 9:53:08 PM PDT by doctor noe
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To: John W

What’s incredible is how little resistance and anger this insulting, moronic law will provoke - just like the hundreds of other legal and bureaucratic impositions our politicians inflict on us these days. People get the government they deserve. We’re devolving into a nation of baffled, uncomprehending children.


77 posted on 05/30/2012 9:54:07 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: John W
The measure would not apply to diet sodas, fruit juices, dairy-based drinks like milkshakes, or alcoholic beverages;

Wouldn't want to ban the 40's, would we?

78 posted on 05/30/2012 9:56:29 PM PDT by this_ol_patriot
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To: this_ol_patriot

My ‘47 Chateau d’Yquem is not a crime scene. Yet.


79 posted on 05/30/2012 10:01:20 PM PDT by alpo
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Thanks for the ping!


80 posted on 05/30/2012 10:30:49 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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