Sugar’s destructive impact: A wake-up call

We have legislation that controls the sale of alcohol, because excessive use is a threat to physical and mental wellbeing.

We have legislation, augmented by aggressive taxation, to control the sale and use of tobacco, because of that substance’s impact on health and public health budgets.

We have legislation that controls the sale and distribution of opiates — even though America’s opioid epidemic suggests that we may have to review those laws. All of these laws were enacted to protect the common good, despite a decades-long, hugely-resourced rearguard action — ongoing — by drink and tobacco interests.