Anti-Smoking Campaigns to Tackle Obesity?
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A new study from the Urban Institute says that using anti-tobacco tactics to help fight obesity could raise $500 billion by 2019. As with tobacco, enforcing a 10% excise tax on fattening foods, revamping nutrition labels on packages, and limiting advertising and marketing of junk foods could all lower people’s consumption of unhealthy foods and prevent obesity. But will legislators listen?
Guests:
Stan Dorn, co-author of “Reducing Obesity: Policy Strategies from the Tobacco Wars,” researcher with the Urban Institute
Harold Goldstein, executive director, California Center for Public Health Advocacy
- Patt Morrison for July 28, 2009
- Health Care's Blue Dog Days of Summer
- Slash & Burn in Sacramento
- Anti-Smoking Campaigns to Tackle Obesity?
- Martinis for Teens?
- Fallen Fruit
- The Caltrans Exit Interview
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Events
Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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