Should Sugar Be Regulated?

American Voices • Opinion • ISSUE 48•05 • Feb 3, 2012

In a recent editorial in the journal Nature, researchers from the University of California–San Francisco suggested that as a toxic substance, sugar should be taxed and regulated like alcohol or tobacco. What do you think?

“The only thing I love more than drinking, smoking, and eating bad are taxes and regulations, so hell yeah!”
Susan Matz –
Systems Analyst
“I'm sick of all this nanny-state liberalism. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go yell slurs at women outside Planned Parenthood.”
John Kensel –
Unemployed
“That’s all right. I switched to blackstrap molasses in my coffee long ago. Which got me off coffee, too.”
Robert Preston –
Animal Breeder

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