Re:Sugar and fat affect your brain
by paulpauper on Thursday January 12, 2023 @12:36PM
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This was tried with prohibition. made things worse
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Re:Sugar and fat affect your brain
by diordiderot on Thursday January 12, 2023 @01:13PM
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Have you heard of the continent called europe?
Re:Sugar and fat affect your brain
by readthenotes1 on Thursday January 12, 2023 @01:19PM
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iirc, the rate of alcoholism during prohibition drops considerably.
What was made worse?
Re:Sugar and fat affect your brain
by reddit_clone on Thursday January 12, 2023 @01:31PM
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Tangential: It enabled gangsters and made them rich and powerful.
Death from unsafe alcohol, crime. Those that did drink tended to consume more. Cost of futile enforcement (also see: the war on drugs).
Re:Sugar and fat affect your brain
by sarchertech on Thursday January 12, 2023 @01:37PM
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Tax it instead. Enough tax to reduce consumption and make healthier food more competitive. But not so much that a large black market takes off.
It doesn't work for addictive substancies (like sugar), people will just pay more. We have sugar tax in Poland already and it didn't change anything. We also have 105% tax on cigarettes, yet still a lot of people smoke.
Again: the smoking and sugar consumption rate have both been declining in your country.[1][2]
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1038507/poland-share-of-... [2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1197501/poland-monthly-c...