Say what you will about nanny-stating, and perhaps the city's money is better spent elsewhere, but I have to admit to feeling a little more informed after having watched that just once. Even reasonable intelligent people like myself (ha!) can benefit from a bit of education now and then, particularly when it's a topic you don't actively seek information on (e.g. the sugar in a coffee drink).

That's it! I'm sick of it! These mofo's stop wasting my mother effing money. And I haven't even gotten my state refund yet! WTF!

Layoff teachers, but produce anti-sugar commercials.

Good call Bloomberg! Wise spending!

I never drink anything but diet stuff. Doesn't anyone drink Diet Snapple, Diet soda, iced green tea, flavored seltzer? Crystal Light? Drinking full-sugar soda and juice never enters my mind.

That's smart; so when you develop cancer from the artificial sweetener you'll be slim and sexy in your baldness.

Yeah because there are so many cancer cases from Diet Snapple and flavored seltzer. You people have a problem with everything.

Cancer.gov: "A study of about half a million people, published in 2006, compared people who drank aspartame-containing beverages with those who did not. Results of the study showed that increasing levels of consumption were not associated with any risk of lymphomas, leukemias, or brain cancers in men or women."

i remember when all their studies said asbestos was a-ok too.

hey remember when the FDA told us to eat tons of red meat for our health and rink lots of cow's milk?

Yeah but as time goes on our science is tight.

You people? Don't get all uppity with me white bitch.

ha.

Smokers pay 600% or so in taxes, how dare people come up with ideas to tax something else a modest 10% (something that also causes people to be diabetic and unhealthy). I'm sick of cigarettes taking the blame for everything. I almost feel bad for tobacco companies.

CEO of Coca Cola referred to a potential soda tax as something out of the Soviet Union, making no mention of the very commie-like corn subsidies that benefit his company. Douche.

>> I almost feel bad for tobacco companies. >>

lolz

Why do they keep harping on "sugar" when nearly all not-diet drinks have high-fructose corn syrup? (Seriously the sugar lobby should get all up in Bloomberg's grill about that. "Oh, sure, make *us* the bad guys..")

Why don't they also push diet soda and ice tea along with milk, water, and so on? (Snapple diet raspberry ice tea!) Most people I know drink the diet versions anyway - they taste better than corn syrup.

And why'd they crop that girl on the right? That booty was lookin' fiiiiinnnneeee....

Holy shit, over 20 packets of sugar in a single soda?

Using Sweet-n-Low to skip 2 packets of sugar in your coffee seems absolutely laughable compared to this.

"Type 2 Diabetes" (cut to grotesque gangrenous foot)

"Heart disease" (cut to an obese man being violently defibrillated)

"Even some cancers" (cut to a man wearing a gown)

we shouldn't confuse nanny state with information. Where else are we supposed to get the information? It isn't included in the labels, that's for sure, despite some recent attempts by the FDA to make labels more useful. This is not a ban or a tax but just a piece of information to make us more informed consumers, which the nanny state complainers should be all for. Those pictures are real - if you have poorly controlled diabetes that happens.

Also, the complaint about the gov't choosing what we should drink - give me a break, it said fat free milk and unsweetened tea, that was hardly a snapple ad.

i am all for the ad, but how about a warning for those of us eating lunch? (salad, and a sugar free drink. honest!)

In 2011, you don't have to parent your children. The state will do it for you.

that's what happens when dumb voters choose the republican candidate 3 out of 3 times.

Unfortunately, it seems like people don't have the common sense and ability to take care of themselves. It's really sad. Also unfortunately, these people's inability to take care of themselves put a huge burden on American taxpayers... It's out of control. I wish these ads made a huge difference, though. As I find it harder and harder to find room on the subway as the waistbands keep expanding, I hardly doubt it