People will continue to drink it because they enjoy it. This is about personal responsibility, Coca-Cola and Pepsi aren’t MAKING anyone drink their products.

Not to mention that sugar sweetened beverages only make-up 5% of the American diet. Sorry people, but even if soda were eradicated from the earth, we’d still have obesity. People today eat horribly and don’t exercise. That’s what it comes down to.

Let’s stop pointing fingers and finding a scapegoat for what we as a society have done to ourselves. If we really want to see some change, we all need to take some responsibility for our health and that of our loved ones. Why should someone else have to do that for us?

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They are often studied in relation to the Pima Indians of northern Mexico who have been able to maintain their traditional diet and levels of exercise. Unlike the AZ Pima, the Mexican Pima are thin, with little or no diabetes.

In the mid-19th century, the AZ Pima were exposed to flour and sugar by white settlers travelling to California. The author says the two groups traded with each other.

Fast forward to the 1950s. The Pima are on a reservation and dependent on government rations of flour, cheese, lard and beans. Their main beverage is sugary soda. And they have the highest rates of obesity and diabetes in the world. Does this diet sound familiar?

Our government knows the effect of sugar on the body, and yet they allow soda companies to market and sell their products in public schools. Children are getting hooked on sugar. This needs to stop!!!

LULAC needs to stop taking money from soda companies! If they need money, they should launch a membership drive.

I don’t see how a tax on soda full of high fructose corn syrup holds anybody back. Drinking all that garbage and getting fat and sick is what holds people back.

I agree that the best solution is education, but unfortunately, many schools no longer offer health and physical education classes. Instead children are exposed on campus to soda industry advertising and access to soda from vending machines. It’s disgraceful. These changes have contributed mightily to increases in obesity and diabetes among children.

If this tax passes, hopefully some of the money will be used to provide education about nutrition and health.