BMA Says No To Chocolate Tax. Thank Goodness!
The Easter Bunny and chocolate fans around the UK must be breathing a bit easier after learning that the British Medical Association has voted against a chocolate tax.
In an attempt to curb the obesity epidemic, some physicians in the UK were supporting a plan to add a levy to the sweet treat, says the Press Association.
Luckily, the group came to their senses and voted the plan down by just two votes. Someone must have told them that demonizing any single food will not help to solve the obesity epidemic and that the roots of increasing British waistlines are not the result of any single food or even food group or behavior and are certainly not the fault of Cadbury.
Phfew. I'd hate to have to pay more for my British chocolate bars.
Summer Johnson, PhD
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