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City council speaks out on soda ban controversy
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City council member supports soda ban
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- Date Jun 2, 2012
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Even as the city celebrated donut day today Mayor Bloomberg noted -- a little less soda and you live long.
Defended his latest proposed health and insisting there's no real denial of freedom thirty to a sweet treat is -- when it's still by 216 ounce version.
It's always saying is the restaurant has to serve it in 216.
Ounce cups.
If people yelling and screaming about that that you can't do anything.
And then you know this is ridiculous -- -- the main thing that you don't like about this is the punitive nature of the crime against -- -- Not a punitive it's got the -- in the punitive kind of philosophy.
You can't.
Right we're gonna take this away from.
Years but City Council speaker Christine Quinn who says she was a chubby child who stopped drinking soda on her own.
Believes the size bed with the wrong way to combat obesity.
As opposed to saying -- shares the information about so here's information.
About why you shouldn't have sugar soda and here it.
Access to bottled water -- this is how much -- You can see that on yours your -- lot and -- good day the city's health commissioner said the majority of New Yorkers.
-- server drinks are particularly associate with a weight gain and diabetes and heart disease.
As we had a major epidemic the.
-- that would not affect 7-Eleven convenience stores its giant tree only place that require New York City Department of Health approval.
Restaurants fast food franchises some -- some street vendors movie theaters and stating.
The powerful New York assembly speaker Sheldon Silver has said he may introduce state legislation to stop the bad.
But Mayor Bloomberg hopes Governor Cuomo will back the supersize --
