So this is why Thomas Friden is still around. He was once Nanny Bloomberg’s health advisor, and in 2009 argued for taxing sugared beverages (aka the soda tax). It all makes perfect sense now.
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| Thomas Frieden was health advisor to Nanny Bloomberg |
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In a 2009 “Perspective” piece in the New England Journal of Medicine, Kelly D. Brownell, PhD, Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale, and Thomas R. Frieden, MD, PhD, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, argue for taxing sugared beverages. The authors propose that sugared beverages may be the single largest cause of the obesity epidemic. They state that an excise tax of one cent per ounce would reduce consumption by more than 10%.
So Frieden is not only dumb, he is every bit as dictatorial as Bloomberg and Obama.