Because making cigarette taxes so prohibitively high worked to make people quit smoking, it’s time to take on the sodas and pizzas!!

U.S. researchers estimate that an 18 percent tax on pizza and soda can push down U.S. adults’ calorie intake enough to lower their average weight by 5 pounds (2 kg) per year.

The researchers, writing in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine on Monday, suggested taxing could be used as a weapon in the fight against obesity, which costs the United States an estimated $147 billion a year in health costs.

For the record, I have had pizza three times since November, and I have lost 16 pounds. That’s unfair taxation without representation I say.

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