Ads on ferries: Ban advertising of all sugary drinks

Re: “WA state ferry fans see red over Coca-Cola banner ads on vessels” [Oct. 27, Traffic Lab]:

We’ve identified for years that ingesting carbonated sugary drinks strongly contributes to weight problems and Kind 2 diabetes, which is 9% on this state. The monetary and well being burden of Kind 2 diabetes could be very excessive. Seattle has had a soda tax since 2018; the soda foyer managed to trick the remainder of Washington from passing future comparable taxes wherever else within the state.

Washington shouldn’t enable any public promoting of those drinks, interval. Or possibly we should always require warnings on each bottle, like we do on cigarettes.

I dwell a part of the 12 months in Mexico, the place Coke is cheaper than water, and Coca-Cola vehicles ship Coke and water bottles to houses the place protected ingesting water doesn’t come by means of the faucets. Two-liter bottles are the scale of selection. Promoting for Coca-Cola is rampant; data of its influence on diabetes and dying just isn’t.

The soda foyer received’t cease in Washington. We should get a statewide ban on promoting these drinks. Taxpayers pay for the burden of diabetes.

Marianne Scruggs, Seattle