Re: Ban ads for polluting large cars, report says
Originally Posted by
bakerman
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Be careful what you wish for. The day is coming when airline tickets will be sold based on the WEIGHT of the passenger.
Speaking of weight, since obesity is a major cause of health problems, and obviously a greatly increased cost of health care, it stands to reason that obese people should be charged much, much more for high calorie foods: ice cream, cookies, sodas, butter, potato chips, in fact everything except fresh vegetables.
Why should the country, any country, bear the financial burden of people who can not, refuse to, lose weight and are morbidly obese?
This is way off-topic but the USA is the 12th most obese country in the world:
COUNTRY COMPARISON :: OBESITY - ADULT PREVALENCE RATE
1 Nauru 61.00
2 Cook Islands 55.90
3 Palau 55.30
4 Marshall Islands 52.90
5 Tuvalu 51.60
6 Niue 50.00
7 Tonga 48.20
8 Samoa 47.30
9 Kiribati 46.00
10 Micronesia, Federated States of 45.80
11 Kuwait 37.90
12 United States 36.20
13 Jordan 35.50
14 Saudi Arabia 35.40
15 Qatar 35.10
16 Libya 32.50
17 Turkey 32.10
18 Egypt 32.00
19 Lebanon 32.00
20 United Arab Emirates 31.70
21 Bahamas, The 31.60
22 New Zealand 30.80
23 Iraq 30.40
24 Fiji 30.20
25 Bahrain 29.80
26 Canada 29.40
27 Australia 29.00
28 Malta 28.90
29 Mexico 28.90
30 South Africa 28.30
31 Argentina 28.30
32 Chile 28.00
33 Dominica 27.90
34 Uruguay 27.90
35 Syria 27.80
36 United Kingdom 27.80
Originally Posted by
bakerman
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Are you sure you want the government dictating what you can drive, what you can eat and/or how many children you can have ? China has a one child policy. Is your country next ? Do you really want to drive an electric golf cart and lose the freedom of traveling into the mountains ? Hmm??
So much for freedom .....