re: #454 tradewind

Education would go further than taxation in helping people who need it most re the soft drink/candy thing. When I see obviously financially challenged people lined up at the local ___ ( fill in with unhealthy fast-food drive-through of choice) forking over two or three times as much money for a tenth of the nutrition they could get by shopping and cooking, it just reinforces the belief that it’s the ignorance, not the high-fructose corn syrup, that’s more problematic.

No doubt about it. Education has slowly but surely reduced the % of smokers in this country (along with…uh…cancer), but we are still collecting taxes on cigarettes.