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Which City Might Try to Ban Huge Sodas Next?
Deductive reasoning says Seattleites should drink 'em while they got 'em.
By now everyone's well aware of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's new plan to ban the sale of sodas larger than 16 ounces in New York City. So far the proposal doesn't seem very pop-ular — it's just too easy with this story — but the mayor himself is pushing past the criticism like he's been there before.
That's probably because he has. As Sarah Kliff pointed out the other day at Wonkblog, Bloomberg's time as mayor has been filled with the passage of public health initiatives that were at the head of the national curve, and sometimes even set it. While many of these efforts were greeted with skepticism, a great number of cities (not to mention states and even countries) eventually came to embrace similar policies.