Well using my own Canadian model again we tax the shit out of cigarettes here because it is a huge drain on our health care system.

I saw an American guy in 7-11 freaking out because they wanted him to pay something stupid for a tin of Skoal. Like twenty bucks or something, he said he had bought a bigger tin in the states for 2.75. The difference is that if he gets cancer he'll lose his house, and here he's already paid for treatment.

Obesity is starting to beat Tobacco as the leading cause of preventable death. Yet we don't add any additional costs to foods that we know for a fact contribute to obesity, increasing the load on health care.

My health care, that I pay for so that when I seriously injure myself I can get help. Except instead I spend two hours in the ER waiting room with two breaks in my collar bone because the health care system is over extended.

Hm could there be a correlation between one of the leading causes of preventable death and the strain on health care?

I'm all for you being able to get as absolutely fat as you possible can. Great, I'm happy for you. Make choices, smoke crack whatever. But once again don't ask me to pay for it.

It comes down to harm principle. You should be free to do whatever you want, as long as your freedom to does not interfere with my freedom from.

In this case, you're free to be as fat as you want, but that freedom does not take precedence over my freedom from have to deal with your shit.