SUGARY BEVERAGES
KILL MORE PEOPLE THAN COCAINE

Consumption of sugary beverages have been shown to kill more people (due to induced diabetes, heart diease, obesity and cancer) than both cocaine and organized crime.

GLOBAL DEATHS EACH YEAR DUE TO SUGAR-SWEETENED BEVERAGES

In 2015, researchers from Tufts University, Harvard School of Public Health, Imperial School of Public Health, Univ. of Washington Institute for Health Metrics - who comprised the Global Burden of Diseases Nutrition and Chronic Diseases Expert Group - collectively published a paper in Circulation, Estimated Global, Regional, and National Disease Burdens Related to Sugar-Sweetened Beverage in 2010. The first statistic: "Worldwide, the model estimated 184,000 (95% uncertainty interval, 208000) deaths per year attributable to consumption of sugar sweetened beverages". That makes sugar sweetened beverages deadlier that cocaine.

Question 1: is it more moral to help people kill themselves less slowly (sugary beverages) than to help people kill themselves more quickly (cocaine)? If not more moral, than sugary beverages immorally kill more people per year than cocaine.

In the article, the medical reserarchers document that, at least in 2010, about 27,000 of these 184,000 deaths occurred in the USA. In most years, that is more people dying from the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages than from using cocaine. Which white powder is worse?

Nature Medicine, 06 January 2025
By 2024 (New York Times citing article): Across the world, the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages is responsible for about 340,000 deaths each year from Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.