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Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK (www.joe.co.uk)
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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I am failing to understand how come a choice of a person or bad parenting should be enforced. Like if a person wants to drink more of sugary drinks he likes, it is purely up to him, right? Or parents letting their children drink as much as they want. That shit is purely on a customer. Why would anyone regulate that? Focus on other things like littering, public smoking and drinking, drug selling. This hast to be one of the least important things to regulate.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    They can drink as much as they like. There's nothing stopping someone buying another drink.

    Obesity is a huge public health concern that should be treated seriously and we should be steering our culture into making better health decisions.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    Because 64% of adults are overweight or obese, with 26% being in the heavier classification. Thats a doubling in a decade. It’s costing the NHS £11 billion per year, and 13% of hospital admissions in 2023 were due to being overweight. The cost to the economy through sick days, reduced productivity and premature death is around £100bn per year.

    Obesity now kills more than drinking or smoking in England and Scotland. There is already a bill in parliament for a phased total smoking ban.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Me and you (hopefully) both understand that that is not a human mistake rather than mega corpos profit-hungry strategies to hook people up on sugary drinks. Instead of limiting peoples choices, we should strafe to punish companies for their aggressive strategies towards customers. As simple as regulate how much actual sugar goes in a drink. People will complain and hopefully drink less if it is less sweet. The ones who would keep drinking would ingest less sugar. Win-win for humanity, lose-win for corpos. This new rule looks like is fighting the cause in a backwards direction.

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