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Sep. 13, 2012 11:24am Madeleine Morgenstern

New York City's Board of Health on Thursday voted to ban sales of big sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, concession stands and other eateries. (AP)

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s Board of Health opened up a new, experimental front in the war on obesity Thursday, passing a rule banning sales of big sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, concession stands, and other eateries.

The regulation, which was proposed in the spring by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and approved by panel of health experts after several months of review, puts a 16-ounce size limit on cups and bottles of non-diet soda, sweetened teas, and other calorie-packed beverages.

The ban will apply in fast-food joints, movie houses and Broadway theaters, workplace cafeterias, and most other places selling prepared food.

It doesn’t cover beverages sold in supermarkets or most convenience stores.

The restaurant and beverage industries have assailed the plan is misguided. They say the city’s health experts are exaggerating the role sugary beverages have played in making Americans fat.

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One board member, Dr. Sixto R. Caro, abstained from voting. The other 8 board members voted yes.

“I am still skeptical. This is not comprehensive enough,” Caro said.

Some New Yorkers have also ridiculed the rule as a gross government intrusion and tens of thousands signed a petition, circulated by the industry, voicing their opposition.

The unprecedented regulation would follow other ambitious health moves on Bloomberg’s watch.

Some have proven to be national pacesetters, such as making chain restaurants post calorie counts prominently on their menus; McDonald’s announced Wednesday that it would start displaying the information nationwide next week, before a federal requirement that could force all major chains to do so next year.

New York City also has barred artificial trans fats from restaurant food and taken aggressive steps to discourage smoking. Starting this month, dozens of city hospitals are asking mothers of newborns to listen to talks about why they should breast-feed instead of use formula.

Bloomberg and other advocates for the soda plan – who include a roster of doctors and such food figures as chef Jamie Oliver – see it as another pioneering step for public health.

They say the proposal strikes at a leading cause of obesity simply by giving people a built-in reason to stop at 16 ounces: 200 calories, if it’s a regular Coke, compared to 240 in a 20-ounce size. For someone who drinks a soda a day, the difference amounts to 14,600 calories a year, or the equivalent of 70 Hershey bars, enough to add about four pounds of fat to a person’s body.

Beyond the numbers, some doctors and nutrition experts say the proposal starts a conversation that could change attitudes toward overeating. While there are many factors in obesity, “ultimately it does come down to culture, and it comes down to taking some first steps,” said Dr. Jeffrey Mechanick, a Mount Sinai School of Medicine professor who has studied the effect of government regulation on the obesity epidemic.

Soda makers and sellers say the plan unfairly singles out soft drinks as culprits for the nation’s fat problem, represents an overweening government effort to regulate behavior and is so patchy as to be pointless. Because of the web of who regulates what, it would affect a belly-buster regular soda sold at a sports arena but not a 7-Eleven Big Gulp, for instance.

An average New Yorker goes to the movies about four times per year and buys concessions only twice, said Sun Dee Larson, a spokeswoman for the AMC Theatres chain.

“We firmly believe the choices made during the other 363 days have a much greater impact on public health,” she said in a statement.

Thursday’s vote is unlikely to be the final word on the proposal.

A soft-drink industry sponsored group called New Yorkers for Beverage Choices – which says it has gathered more than 250,000 signatures on petitions opposing the soda plan – is considering a lawsuit and exploring legislative options for challenging the plan if it passes, spokesman Eliot Hoff said. It’s not clear what legislative routes there may be: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said Wednesday she’s not interested in trying to block the expected health board vote, though she has said she isn’t a fan of the soda idea.

The rule wouldn’t apply to lower-calorie drinks, such as water or diet soda, or to alcoholic beverages or drinks that are more than half milk or 70 percent juice.

Enforcement would be conducted by an existing corps of city restaurant inspectors. A violation would lead to a $200 fine.

TheBlaze hit the streets back in June to find out how New Yorkers felt about the ban. Check out their responses below:

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cdn1979
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:43am
this is so silly. i guess i can buy two 16 oz drinks instead of 1 32 oz. what about the places that give free refills. at that point the cup size does not matter. if it wasn’t so sad, i’d be laughing right now.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:01pm
  They want you to buy the two drinks. It costs you more, and they get more. Nothing to do with obesity.
  
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- U.N.hater
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:07pm
  Silly? Oh hell no this is not silly.This is pure dictatership! Wake the f-ck up! Just how much are we going to allow before we stand up? I’m starting believe we may be a nation of panzy a$$ wittle boy’s!
  
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- mersey
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:22pm
  New Yorkers love this new law. The state and city are full of Democrats and they spend their entire lives subservient to the government.
  
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- Goldlady
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:36pm
  It’s amazing to me how far this government can go and people absolutely don’t get why this groundwork is being laid and where it’s going.
  
  It truly authenticates Andy Andrews, “How to Kill 11 Million People”. Great short read.
  
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- lovenfl3
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:41pm
  This is exactly why the Founding Father’s worked so hard to make sure that the government didn’t have too much power. After years of liberals tearing this down, here’s what we have now. The government thinks you’re too stupid to figure out what to eat and drink. Remember everyone….”it’s for your own good.” Just like the CTA strike. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGYIgfdEA-M
  
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- black9897
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:52pm
  So it’s ok to violently threaten ppl to not buy stuff? Wow. Some America. Just add this to the long list.
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 1:05pm
  in New York you don’t get refills in most nice restaurants.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 1:07pm
  Ah, my comments were yanked. Sounds to me like some sore loser Leftists don’t like people who disagree with them in ways they cannot counter. And thanks Blaze for your lack of editorial discretion and your auto-yank functionality.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 2:20pm
  Dr. Sixto Caro????
  
  I had a cat named sixto but, like Dan Quayle I spelled it with an “e”….. Sixtoe Gato. : )
  
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- cessna152
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 2:25pm
  All of you on the Blaze are crazy haters!! Soda bans, outlandish spending, high unemployment and inflation will NEVER happen! NEVER! You all need to take a chill pill because Obama is not here to nationalize banks, support failing green companies, send money to Petrobras or overseas drilling, bypass Congress or support the Muslim brotherhood. There is no proof of this happening… MSNBC and all the honest, non-collective news organizations are proof enough!
  
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- Leadthemtothelight
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 2:35pm
  Someone should challenge the constitutionality of this. With all of the things to be concerned about in this country the size of sodas is really pointless. Glad I don’t live in NY and have no plans to ever go. Not because I have to have a 32oz soda but because the damned government has no right to tell me that I can’t have it. WELCOME TO NANNYLAND aka USA
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 2:37pm
  I wonder if Bloomberg and crew have been shorting their Coke and Pepsi stocks lately?
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 2:40pm
  @cessna152
  
  Thanks for the laugh. : )
  
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- Tom K
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 2:41pm
  @ CDN1979: Of course when you are done, you have two cups, two lids and two straws to put in the trash – or – recycle bin – or – sidewalk / street ! Isn’t N.Y.C. nasty enough? New Yorkers finally have the local government that they deserve.
  
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- gonnaneedabiggerboat
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 5:37pm
  Please never, ever say that cup size doesn’t matter…now what’s this about soda?
  
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- Wolfgang the Gray
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 5:57pm
  NYC is full of leftists anyway that can’t think for themselves and needs Bloomberg to tell them what to do and think. Just another reason why I have no desire to ever go to the Big Cesspool.
  
  As for standing up, I think there are plenty of people waiting to stand up and are just waiting for the right straw. Maybe if Obama wins in Nov, that might be it. Of course, if Romney wins, that may be the last straw for the leftists since Romney will start undoing some of the crap that Obama has put in place.
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 7:08pm
  I hear the NYC ATFS (Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Sugar) seized all the sugar in all the stores
  and shut down candy and donut shops all over the city. (Satire)
  Two guys in jail:
  “what are you in for”
  “Rape and murder. You?”
  “I added one too many packets of sugar in my latte at starbucks”
  
  Bloomberg is a Blooming Idiot. It’s a good thing for that clown that he has no control over my life.
  
  There are two kinds of people in this world.
  Those who want to be left alone and those who won’t leave them alone.
  Blooming Idiot is the Latter. A Freakin’ Communist Dictator.
  
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- gosutag
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 7:17pm
  @WOLFGANG THE GRAY:
  It seems like you can’t think for yourself, saying an entire state is full of people that are all exactly the same? Your logic is so flawed, that’s what’s sad.
  
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- anOpinion
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 7:21pm
  Hey New York, I guess you reap what you sow LOL, keep voting in those great leaders.
  
  What do you think, should bloomberg go after sharp objects next? Those pointy scissors sure aren’t safe.
  
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- spenegdt
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 8:42pm
  Bloomberg is an IDIOT! The government needs to stay out of our lives. Do your job and defend this country but leave us the hell alone!!!
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 9:02pm
  If New York residents comply with this regulation (it’s not a law, IMO) they deserve what they get. I’ve no pity for people who will put up with being controlled by dictators.
  
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- davidlachnicht
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:18pm
  SOLUTION: Buy a giant cup – get beverage free.
  
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- Obama Been Lauding
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 5:38am
  This is stupid!!!!!
  I think the businesses that sell these drinks should offer a ‘buy one, get one free’ deal!!!!!!
  This would give them their rights back, and let people have 32 oz. if they want it!!!!
  
  Obama at work here, controlling like a dictator???
  
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watersRpeople
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:42am
All I know is don’t point the finger of blame at Google, Facebook, or any other entity when they won’t post your news articles, or blogs, citing “It isn’t pertinent to the conversation”, or “It isn’t a productive post.” Even The Blaze practices that. Maybe New York will say “The Blaze isn’t pertinent to New York” and ban it.

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- watersRpeople
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:52am
  You’re right, “The truth lives here.”
  
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- chips1
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:54am
  And your not pertinant to America.
  
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- watersRpeople
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:01pm
  chips1,
  “Your” not pertinent to grammar.
  
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- watersRpeople
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:05pm
  chips1,
  I know, America has become a bottom feeding fish that’s puking me out.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:05pm
  We are more free here than anywhere else, but the whole truth doesn’t live here either. They do their share of propagandizing by omission. None the less, I do thank Beck for making this available. He’s a good man with a blind spot to Israel. Fact is, we all suffer from something.
  
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- grayling646
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:05pm
  ..ummmm…why don’t you start your own site? Please….
  
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- watersRpeople
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:10pm
  grayling646,
  Gee who would have thunk it that you’d miss the context of the content. “Don’t point fingers, because it makes you a hypocrite when you do it yourself, and it lowers your credibility.”
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:51pm
  Now you know why unemployment here in Oklahoma is under 7%. In our little town it is 3.9%. Our Home Depot is hireing and Solo Cup has a permanent sign up and you would think the job listing is from the Dallas Morning news. Most of these places start at $8.50 an hour and have insurence. This is a college town and before Obama the kids worked at the fast food places but not anymore. They get grant money and free dorms so why work when you can party. NYC companys are moving to OK City and Tulsa and even with our small state income tax they save a fortune.
  
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mako887
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:41am
Let’s see….Mayor appoints all the health board members. All of them (except the one who knew how stupid this is) vote for the Mayor’s proposal. Cab fares have gone up. Metrocard costs are going to go up. Let’s find some other way to make life in NYC more aggravating than it has to be.

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- OniKaze
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:48am
  Simple solution…
  
  Mass exodus from NYC to saner parts of the U.S.
  
  Only realistic solution…
  
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- mechjunk
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 8:25pm
  @Onikaze
  Heck No! The New Yorkers can stay right there in their cesspool and clean it up or drown in it.
  
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tweetybird
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:40am
The rule wouldn’t apply to lower-calorie drinks, such as water or diet soda, or to alcoholic beverages or drinks that are more than half milk or 70 percent juice.

Not yet anyway. I am sure that will be next. The government will stop at nothing to cram down our throats what they think we need. Excuse me…..I have a mother. I don’t need another one.

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- Ghandi was a Republican
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:47am
  And how are they going to police this, and why are the masses being affected by the actions of the idiotic few? That is basically what the Constitution is based on. Liberty and protection from the actions of the few who would threaten it.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:32pm
  I would think a 40oz Colt 45 is far more hazardous to the people of NYC than a 40 oz Coke. I know, don’t give them any ideas.
  
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- Concern4Constitution
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 4:25pm
  Gee-MILKSHAKES are made with milk–and a LOT of corn syrup and usually start at about twice the calories of soda. Will the police be walking around with little tests strips to see if your drink is diet? What if you fill a 32oz cup 3/4 of the way with cranberry juice then fill the rest with reg. 7-up? Will they have to send it to a lab to determine if it 70% and not 69%??? So basically I can have 3 snickers bars and a diet soda and I’ll lose weight right? Do I get to sue the city for the harm artificial sweetners do? Is there even a shred of logic in the board’s collective brain, let alone any sense of freedom?
  
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:40am
But they won’t ban cartloads of chips and gallons of sodas bought with food stamps, where the real obesity issue lies..

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baptist_deacon
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:40am
This, by far, is the stupidest law I have ever heard of. Do these idiots really think anyone is going to loose weight because they can’t get a big gulp? If you are thirsty, and cannot get a big gulp, all you have to do is buy 2 drinks! All this law does is waste money. Every person involved in this law, including Bloomberg should be fired for incompetence!

All this makes me wonder what happened to Bloomberg to go along with this. He never seemed like an idiot to me, but he sure looks like one now. What motivated him to push this?

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- Lord_Frostwind
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 2:30pm
  I don’t go to any restaurant that doesn’t have free refills. If Bloomberg in all his kingly wisdom thinks that this will be anything more than a minor inconvenience to people who enjoy soda, he is a blind, stubborn, moron. It does beg the question, how do these wannabe dictators keep getting elected?
  
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- Tom K
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 2:58pm
  @ BAPTIST_DEACON : Bloomberg IS and has ALWAYS been a Lib-Dem-Soc-Prog-Comm that wants to CONTROL Every Aspect of Life As We Know It ! We stopped going to dangerous N.Y.C. years ago when we were not ALLOWED to pack our legal firearms for self protection. New York City is going the route of Chicago; neither of these cities get any of our tourist dollars. You can vote out “Bloomers” just like you can vote out Obama, the “Ineligible One” !
  
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grayling646
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:39am
….coming to a town near you!!!…bend over boys and girls…

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- johnjamison
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:45am
  Did these officals represent the people or their own personal beliefs……THAT WHAT THESE POLITICIANS CAN’T GRASP THEY AREN’T IN PLACE TO RULE THEY’;RE IN PLACE TO REPRESENT….. LAST TIME SOMEONE TRIED THIS CRAP THEY WERE SHOWED THE EXIT AT YORKTOWN,VIRGINIA
  
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radicalRWer
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:38am
UHG! the Dichotomy of the Left… blood is now shooting out my eyeballs O<

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Eastinfection
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:38am
Where are the Eco- Greenie- tree huggers on this? Won’t this lead to more packaging, more paper cups, more water used to wash out 2 glasses instead of one?

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- Ghandi was a Republican
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:44am
  Simply put– Because they voted Democrat for decades prior..
  
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Winedude
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:37am
If voting for the GOP is the “path to prosperity”, why are the most GOP leaning states the most fat, poorest, and most un-educated?

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- Ghandi was a Republican
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:43am
  Why are they the most prosperous with so little to work with? They gravitated away from Democrats and inherited a few generations of the aftermath.. Take La. And Ark for example..
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:43am
  If you believe that then great, we’ll just secede. All good? You go your way and we go ours?
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:46am
  WHINEDUDE, That’s funny. Why are so many businesses an well to do people are doing everything they can to escape those blue states to get to the red states?
  
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- thegreatcarnac
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:49am
  First….they are not the fattest nor the poorest if you average the white Americans in those states. A lot of southern states are populated by large groups of minorities. They pull down school scores and up the obesity rates. They also add to crime rates.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:53pm
  @Wine
  
  So what you’re saying is that you agree that the government has the right to dictate what you do with your body.
  
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- Winedude
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 1:23pm
  RJJINGADSDEN: Yes, many business are moving out of states like California. Yet many stay and prosper, especially in the tech industry.
  Carnac: What difference does it make if they’re white, black, brown, yellow, red or whatever? Fat is still fat and doesn’t discriminate, unlike your obviously racist comment. You must be one of those fat southern crackers.
  Ghost of Jefferson: I said nothing of the sort. In fact, I consider myself more of a libertarian and find Mayor Bloomberg’s efforts to make NYC a nanny state quite offensive, if not humorous. Actually the funniest thing is the reaction the crackers are having to this issue.
  ROTHBARDIAN_IN_THE_CLEVE: Makes no difference to me if the South secedes. Most of my family is from the south, including a Civil war general who managed Jefferson Davis’s plantation during the war. At the end of the war many left, and to my good luck, came to California.
  
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- TheSoundOf Truth
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 3:23pm
  Right off of FRAC:
  
  State-by-State Trends
  
  Increases in SNAP caseloads between June 2011 and June 2012 occurred in 40 states and the District of Columbia. The states registering the highest over-the-year percentage increases were Hawaii (10.6 percent), Florida (9.7 percent), New Jersey (7.6 percent), Delaware (7.5 percent), California (7.3 percent), Iowa (6.9 percent), Georgia (6.5 percent), Colorado (6.4 percent), Rhode Island (6.4 percent), and Oregon (6.0 percent).
  
  9/10 of those states voted for Barack Obama in 2008, and 7 of them are known as “blue” states.
  
  The case load of government support benefit recipients of each state is a true gauge of how the actual economy of each state is doing, and the higher the load, the worse the economy.
  
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- TheSoundOf Truth
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 3:30pm
  As far as fatness is concerned, the stats on “obesity” are based on the BMI, which is a slanted and non-scientific method of gauging obesity. It does not take into account things like muscle mass and defectively addresses height, so naturally states that have populations whose lineage comes from people that are typically taller or bigger by the very nature of their genes will be considered “fat”. It is simply not true.
  
  One that is a proven fact, is the “food insecurity/obesity” paradox, that states “where food insecurity is highest, so is obesity”.
  
  Based on that, which is straight from the ERS/USDA, then the states with the highest food insecurity, IE most caseloads for SNAP benefits, would then in fact be the most obese.
  
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- TheSoundOf Truth
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 3:32pm
  Most states fall between 40%-60% college graduate #s, so the difference between “red/blue” states is negligible.
  
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- TheSoundOf Truth
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 3:45pm
  and based on my research, red/blue politics of each state play no legitimate factor in why states collect SNAP, WIC, EBT, or are Obese, who which graduate the most college students.
  
  It seems that the higher population states have the most obesity, the highest graduating students (factor in also that many students go to school away from the state they are a citizen of), more SNAP recipients, and more WIC participants.
  
  %’s mean nothing here, because a smaller, lower population state with a higher SNAP participation rate will be a lesser expense than that of say, CA, which has 3,600,000 people on SNAP, which is right behind Texas @ around 4,000,000.
  
  So, it would appear that the polemic argument that “GOP” states are poorer, fatter, and dumber is just not accurate, and that state population totals have a greater determining factor in these particular things than state political leanings.
  
  Bottom line: All states take Federal Assistance and we have a systemic problem in the US with entitlements and redistributive programs. With over 47 million people collecting SNAP benefits, there are more people at a higher percentage of the population collecting food supplementary benefits than ever before in US history. That is a serious problem, and not designated to a select few states that may be “red” or “blue”
  
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kdshell1
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:37am
All businesses need do is give multi-cup discounts.

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- Ghandi was a Republican
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:45am
  True– the unintended consequence will be 3 times as much refuse, most of which is petroleum based plastic and Styrofoam (and trees).
  
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GeorgeWashingtonslept here
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:36am
I’m thinking that the soda companies are loving life right now. Let’s see,,,,If you are a BIG soda drinker that means you will buy “TWO” 16 oz drinks, right? Hmmm, now more soda will need to be sold, more cups will need to be purchased and SALE tax! WTG Doomberg! Happy all around!, oh except for the consumer! Do you really believe people are that stupid to think that you give a rat’s rear end about how FAT people are?! L O L! really loud!

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ProudCapitalist
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:34am
If this stands, they can force us to do anything they want.

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The_Jerk
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:34am
Oppressive government. The kibbutz-ism of New York brought to you by Bloomberg.

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Gimme Shelter
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:34am
It’s always amazing what Liberals think people should and shouldn’t be pro-choice about!!

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- Itsourtime
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:37am
  You can’t drink more soda than we think you should, but go ahead and murder your unborn child, it’s your body after all.
  
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- Balpit
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:42am
  The same people who fight tooth and nail to keep abortion legal would go nuts if they saw a pregnant woman smoking.
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:47am
  We are just too dumb, just a bunch of poo slinging monkeys, the zookeepers have to keep us from getting fat.
  
  But then again, this will be implemented nationwide when Obama Care goes into effect.
  
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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:33am
NY is just the prototype for what is coming for all of us. Obamacare/Romneycare is the vehicle. We’ve opened the pandora’s box. NOTHING is off the table in collectivism. The rationale is that “if WE have to pay for YOUR poor decisions then that isn’t fair…so, WE should be able to regulate what YOU do so as to mitigate OUR obligations”

There is no backstop on this logic. BONUS: Now we have this really kick-@SS police state to enforce all of this. We have cameras and drones and tracking software and a bunch of unthinking, order following union goon cops who will do anything the state asks.

Now, let’s all sing together. “…O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!”

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jonarata
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:33am
OK, just so we’re transparently clear on this, let me see if I have this right. Nanny Bloomberg doesn’t believe there should be any restrictions, absolutely none what so ever, on the practice of abortion – but that the consumption of soda is such an immediate health hazard that it must be strictly regulated by his government.

Do I have that about right?

Because if so, regardless of what one thinks about abortion, that’s pretty freaking whacked.

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USPATRIOT101
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:33am
Wilth all the issues facing Americans in NYC, your elected officials chose this to be a priority. Now they will continue to increase “revenue” (taxes) to spend on other dumb ****.

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Detroit paperboy
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:32am
So the 350 pound FOODSTAMPERS will just buy two medium drinks to wash their twinkies down…..problem solved…

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TexasCommonSense
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:31am
The people of New York have a 10 Amendment right to be dumbasses and give their liberty.

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Chromo200
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:30am
and soon we will have a rule limiting you to one 8 oz drink a day. They will be implanting a chip in your neck to track the number of drinks. Thanks Bloomberg for saving me from all this.

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GeorgeWashingtonslept here
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:30am
Sorry, but New Yorker’s deserve it……………and they will probably re-elect Doomberg as well……good grief..

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MrButcher
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:30am
When can we ban bureaucrats and leftists?

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AlcoholicMB
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:29am
Get out of NYC. NOW.

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- 13Lena
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:31am
  Unfortunately I can’t but the Mayor frankly is nuttier than a fruit cake.
  
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- DimmuBorgir
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:33am
  Strong Bad, is that you??
  
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- AlcoholicMB
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:06pm
  Senor Cardgage, actually.
  
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DimmuBorgir
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:28am
So giant sodas = bad?
Giant beers = good?

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- DimmuBorgir
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:33am
  edit:
  Giant mixed drinks = Good
  
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- The Third Archon
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 6:03pm
  Ah, but if you take that same giant drink and pour it into TWO cups, you’re all good.
  
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