Soda Ban Essay
Shuxing Fang
Writing 150 Section 64525
Professor Artiano
October 3th, 2016
Writing Assignment 2
On March 12, 2013, New York government adopted the Sugary Drinks Portion Cap Rule, a limit that prohibited New York regulated restaurants from selling sugary drinks in cups larger than 16 ounces. The intention of this limit is to ameliorate the severe obesity problems of New York city. However, it was not welcomed by neither citizen nor the New York highest court. According to a nationwide poll by Rasmussen Reports, only 19 percent of adults support the soda ban, and the highest court rejected the Sugary Drinks Portion Cap rule in 2014, saying it was “exceeded the scope of its regulatory authority” (Eugene). In my opinion, the soda ban is an effective …show more content…
Soda ban maybe can help to stop the growing of obesity rate, and even reduce it. Take China as example, in which the largest size of sugary drink is 22 ounces (in US it is 44 ounces) the overall obesity rate is below 5 percent(WHO). Furthermore, by improving the public health, the government can save more resource from health care and invent them to solve other problems. So I think the soda ban is an effective and useful decision. But does the government have the right to implement punitive policies that related to public health? In my opinion, the answer is yes, because there are substantial precedents that were carried out successfully and acknowledged by people. First, there is the set of minimum legal drinking age, for the concern of health and safety. There were many problems that were caused by underage alcohol drinking, such as
• [more than 4300 deaths among people below the age of 21 in the US each …show more content…
• [Underage drinking cost the US economy 24 billion in 2010]
• [189000 emergency department visits by people under age 21 for injuries and other conditions linked to alcohol in 2010 (Centers for Disease Control and
Writing 150 Section 64525
Professor Artiano
October 3th, 2016
Writing Assignment 2
On March 12, 2013, New York government adopted the Sugary Drinks Portion Cap Rule, a limit that prohibited New York regulated restaurants from selling sugary drinks in cups larger than 16 ounces. The intention of this limit is to ameliorate the severe obesity problems of New York city. However, it was not welcomed by neither citizen nor the New York highest court. According to a nationwide poll by Rasmussen Reports, only 19 percent of adults support the soda ban, and the highest court rejected the Sugary Drinks Portion Cap rule in 2014, saying it was “exceeded the scope of its regulatory authority” (Eugene). In my opinion, the soda ban is an effective …show more content…
Soda ban maybe can help to stop the growing of obesity rate, and even reduce it. Take China as example, in which the largest size of sugary drink is 22 ounces (in US it is 44 ounces) the overall obesity rate is below 5 percent(WHO). Furthermore, by improving the public health, the government can save more resource from health care and invent them to solve other problems. So I think the soda ban is an effective and useful decision. But does the government have the right to implement punitive policies that related to public health? In my opinion, the answer is yes, because there are substantial precedents that were carried out successfully and acknowledged by people. First, there is the set of minimum legal drinking age, for the concern of health and safety. There were many problems that were caused by underage alcohol drinking, such as
• [more than 4300 deaths among people below the age of 21 in the US each …show more content…
• [Underage drinking cost the US economy 24 billion in 2010]
• [189000 emergency department visits by people under age 21 for injuries and other conditions linked to alcohol in 2010 (Centers for Disease Control and