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Ordering SuperLargeGulps of juice was so rare as to be nonexistent.

Bloomberg was most certainly not trying to further his own power in this situation - he went to his assistants and asked, "What single thing is most harming our population's health right now?" And the thing currently at the top of the chart was super-large-sizes of soft drinks.

But, here is the thing - the United States (with the exception of Seat Belts, in which the NHTSA managed to link federal funding and increased safety), is typically not in the business of being a nanny state. The exception for smoking was that it was second hand smoking that was being legislated.