Americans kept drinking more of the carbonated, sugary drink for about a decade.
If Bloomberg's ban goes into effect, fast food restaurants can easily game his policy by offering a regularly portioned sugary drink that will likely come with free refills.
Its system of distribution, which moves the sugary drink from bottling plants deep into slums and the bush a few crates at a time, may employ around 1m Africans.
Those with the highest risk were adults under 45 living in Mexico, where about 24, 000 people were estimated to have died from causes linked to sugary drink consumption in 2010.
FORBES: The Top Countries for Sugary Drink-Related Deaths: U.S. Ranks Third
Doug Muzzio, a professor of public affairs at Baruch College, said the large sugary drink ban wasn't as simple as the smoking ban for the public to understand and support.
But when it came to deaths associated with sugary drink consumption, the people with the least risk were people 65 and older in Japan: About 10 in a million people died from sugary drink-related causes.
FORBES: The Top Countries for Sugary Drink-Related Deaths: U.S. Ranks Third
The Nurses Health Study which followed the health of close to 90, 000 women over two decades showed that women who had one or more servings a day of a sugary drink were twice as likely to develop Type II diabetes than those who stayed away from such beverages.
FORBES: Why Soda Ban Will Work In Fight Against Obesity; Food Regulations Have Proven Record
Aides to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, a Manhattan Democrat who is running for mayor, said last year that attorneys for the council reviewed the sugary-drink issue and determined that the Board of Health had the right to impose the regulations.
With this, the argument that you are somehow forcing people to drink "sugary" drinks fails completely.
We reduced our intake of sugary drinks and instead encouraged our kids to drink more water.
While the report makes a raft of recommendations, Prof Stephenson attacked sugary drinks for being "just water and sugar" and lambasted a culture where it was deemed acceptable to drink a litre of fizzy drink at the cinema.
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