Because less YOUNGER people are starting in the first place. There are many other things that can be smoked besides cigarrettes these days. Fact is, not nearly as many older people are actually quitting.

There we go- if you're diabetic, then you aren't super healthy.

The US has a huge issue with obesity. Michelle tried reforming school lunches, they kept pushing exercise everywhere, and now we see fat tax. What else can we do? The food industry obviously won't help- it'll only make it worse. After all, many industries paid scientists to fabricate studies in their favour. It's why people avoid fats but are fine with eating sugar, grains, dairy, and red meat to their graves

I feel bad for people like you. Diabetes isn't fun for anyone. Trust me, having relatives with it lets me know they cannot control it. However, is soda the only efficient way to solve your sugar issue? My cousin uses lollipops or candy typically

Come work out with me and see who is healthier.

I use glocuse tablets on occassions when blood sugar drops.  Normally testing regularly and adjusted insulin is enough.

I don't drink soft drinks or eat candy. I occassionally enjoy some alcohol and have to adjust accordingly.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-cook-county-soda-tax-preview-0625-biz-20170622-story.html

Currently it is only for Cook county, which is mostly Chicago and it's suburbs. The tax includes drinks with less that 50 percent milk, Soda, mixes that have sugar in them, juice, etc.

To go further the tax is not just a few cents per drink, it is a penny per ounce! How is that fair to anyone? This is not the same as sin tax which we have on tobacco and alcohol or the tax that is on ammunition. Those items are not something that everyone buys. You want a bad habit, then that is what you pay.

The sweetened beverage tax attacks everyone, including businesses in Cook county. It will cause such a large migration of shoppers that Cook county will lose more in sales tax than they will gain from suckers who are stuck paying this fee. By the way, the poor, whome I feel this tax should have been aimed at to help better their life, are not affected. Food stamps do not have sales tax.

Time will tell what the actual goal of this horrible tax. For now families across Illinois will have to suffer.

Thoughts?

I My first sentence was vague though; I should've clarified I was talking about those with type 2, not type 1.

Thank you. It's a condition too often stigmatized and had people assume the worst about my lifestyle due to it.  Regularly eat chicken breasts and broccoli, and drink protien shakes and yet still get judged due to lack of awareness.

I've been diabetic for the majority of my life ;.; although I do appreciate the info I also... know this very well and always have a pack of dextrose pills with me as well, slightly more difficult to eat 47g of dried sugar though in a pinch than a drink of lucozade.

Also a diabetic should never ever eat a candy bar to treat hypoglycemia, those are laced with fats which actually slow down the sugar being absorbed as well as being very unhealthy a way to treat the condition since you are basically taking what you need (sugar) along with a load of fat for no reason, would be like having cough medicine with oil poured in it for a cough :o

I'm sorry man, that sucks. :(  I wasn't trying to come off, preachy btw. obviously you'd know your illness very well, but I thought I'd still write it just in case.

And yeah, chomping down on dry hardened sugar is harder, especially if you're already a little too low on blood sugar. There's some that dissolve very fast with a sip of water I think, that might help a little.

I did not know about the candy bars, but thinking about it, it makes sense. I knew that fats slow down sugar absorbtion, so I should have made the connection.

Come work out with me and see who is healthier.

I use glocuse tablets on occassions when bllod sugar drops.  Normally testing regularly and adjusted insulin is enough.

I don't drink soft drinks or eat candy. I occassionally enjoy some alcohol and have to adjust accordingly.