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Mar 6 23:39 UTC 2006

Well (although I think he knows it already) I wasn't making the analogy to
secondhand smoke as marcvh suggests. Nor was I commenting on insurance rates.
I am refering to things like the massive costs to consumers to upgrade things
like airplane seats, theater seats, etc. There are very real, though hidden,
costs of obesity being externalized on the non-obese. In a way, smokers are
more sympathetic insofar as they are already taxed in a big way. Whether or
not the government spends that money wisely is a separate issue, of course.
So maybe society needs to rething the whole idea of junk food taxes. Or maybe
a carb tax.