Speech: Big Gulps in the Big Apple

all over 50% of Ameri cigarettes consume at least 1 syrupy fuddle a sidereal day. I would imagine everyone in the audience has been to a fast-food restaurant at least once or consumed a sugary drink over 16 oz at the movies and the law that creates this trouble at present relates to fast food places and the movies. What if I told you that in vernal York metropolis it is illegal to buy a 20 oz Coca-Cola at McDonalds or 7-11. I am addressing this emergence because this very law may one day suck in its way down from New York urban center to Washington D.C. The inhibition on pops over 16 oz in New York City is unjust in that it goes against the Life, Liberty, and avocation of Happiness  promise on which the coupled States was built and does non address the real issue it was designed to effect (Jefferson).\nProponents of the soda ban such as New York Citys Mayor Michael Bloomberg ask that sugary drinks over sixteen ounces should be banned because of the umpteen healt h risks related to the drug addiction of sugary drinks. A a few(prenominal) of the diseases that have been proven to be caused by drinking bats drinks are type dickens diabetes, heart disease, and osteoporosis (Harvard). Additionally, concord to the Framingham affectionateness study a person who drinks one or to a greater extent soft drinks a day is almost two quantify as likely to gain type two diabetes. This poses a serious threat to the health of Americans because the average American consumes quaternary soft drinks a week (Harvard). The affects of diabetes are serious and can lead to pre-mature death. These affects are two short bourne and immense term, but the long term effects such as the development of heart disease, elevated blood pressure, loss of vision, and kidney failure can be fatal.\nFurthermore, according to the Center of Disease go out around 600,000 deaths in the get together States were reported to be caused by heart disease. That is one in every four deaths ( warmth)! Heart disease is such a problem in the United States that the federal government spends slightly 109 billion dol...