Gary Taubes on regulating sugar like tobacco: recommends

Gary Taubes says public-health policy should treat sugar as a regulated hazard comparable to tobacco. In the final chapter of The Case Against Sugar, he argues for measures including sugar taxes, warning labels, and advertising restrictions.

His stated reasoning: he claims the sugar industry has followed a tobacco-like playbook — funding favorable research, muddying the science, and resisting regulation — and therefore, in his view, it merits the same kind of regulatory response that was eventually applied to tobacco. This is a policy recommendation from a journalist and author, reported here as his stated position.

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