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You eating sugar doesn't harm others. Second hand smoke does.
by Cmerlyn 8y ago
You eating sugar doesn't harm others. Second hand smoke does.
- cesnja 8y agoI disagree, because more people eating sugar means that type of food becomes cheaper due to economy of scale. At the same time I second hand suffer because most of my preferred, apparently healthier diet eventually becomes exotic and costs more.
- cyphar 8y ago"Sugar" (read: high fructose corn syrup) isn't cheaper purely because of economies of scale. It's largely cheaper because the government subsidises corn farmers, whose corn is then used to produce a cheaper form of sweetener that is used to replace traditional cane sugar (which I believe is subject to tariffs in the US) in soft drinks.
- nerdponx 8y agoIt absolutely does. Driving up medical utilization affects everybody.