Re: “WA State ferry followers see pink over Coca-Cola banner adverts on ships” [Oct. 27, Traffic Lab]:
We’ve got identified for years that ingesting carbonated sugary drinks strongly contributes to weight problems and kind 2 diabetes, which is 9% on this state. The financial and well being burden of sort 2 diabetes may be very excessive. Seattle has had a soda tax since 2018; the soda foyer managed to trick the remainder of Washington from enacting future related taxes elsewhere within the state.
Washington shouldn’t enable any public promoting of those drinks, interval. Or possibly we should always require warnings on each bottle, identical to we do on cigarettes.
I dwell a part of the 12 months in Mexico, the place Coke is cheaper than water, and Coca-Cola vans ship Coke and water bottles to houses the place clear ingesting water doesn’t come by the faucets. Two-liter bottles are the scale of alternative. Promoting for Coca-Cola is widespread; information of its impression on diabetes and loss of life isn’t.
The soda foyer would not cease in Washington. We will need to have a nationwide ban on promoting these drinks. Taxpayers pay for the burden of diabetes.
Marianne Scruggs, Seattle