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No sodas for you - Bloomberg planning to ban sale of all sugary drinks in NYC
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I knew they wouldn't stop at cigarettes. He was one of the biggest pushers of the cigarette bans that have now gone pretty much worldwide. Now, no sale of sodas - only diet sodas etc are ok. Welcome to the Nanny State. This is from New York Times today:
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New York Plans to Ban Sale of Big Sizes of Sugary Drinks
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Published: May 30, 2012 45 Comments
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.
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