Article: Liquid Candy On The Defense In A Court Near You?
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Liquid Candy On The Defense In A Court Near You?
An impending lawsuit has the U.S. soft drink industry battling claims that it bears a significant amount of the blame for America's youth obesity epidemic.
An Attractive Nuisance
Lawyers, some of them veterans of lawsuits against the tobacco industry, are gearing up to claim that soda firmsthat fill school vending machines are selling deliberately harmful products to youth.
The case will be based on the notion that school vending machines are an "attractive nuisance" -- the same concept used to make landowners fence in swimming pools, which could pose a danger to nearby children.
Liquid Candy
Advocates for the beverage industry have already launched a counteroffensive, calling the idea "ridiculous." But the public h...
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