[Jonathon Spectre]

He dieted periodically, but soft drinks topped his list of weaknesses. For years, Laird drank as many as 20 Coca-Colas a day. His thirst unquenchable, he gulped them, he said, one after another, habitually, "the way people smoke cigarettes."

Like cigarettes, eh? Wonder where that sort of comparison is headed...

20 sodas a day is roughly FIVE THOUSAND EXTRA CALORIES above and beyond any food eaten that day. From what I understand, roughly three thousand calories make up an extra pound of body weight. That means that every single day sheerly from sodas this... man... was gaining over a pound and a half EVERY SINGLE DAY. Diet drinks exist, you know. But then, perhaps they're not just like cigarettes.

I'm so sympathetic.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

Wonder where that sort of comparison is headed...

DING DING DING

Sin taxes on soda, med and pharm treatments, lawsuits, more limiting of rights of individual.