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lhasa.one wrote

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The Supermarket cartels need to take a long hard look at themselves but of course they won't because of their enormous profit incentives.  Ban fast food outlets, dreadful places!  I can't remember where I read it now as it was quite sometime back but there was an experiment in an area in California where they banned fast food outlets and monitored the health of a sample group both before the ban then about 4 months where the changes in their health were quite staggering.

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Yes, fast food outlets are a problem. Not only via adding to obesity & other health problems, but the tax paid back into the system does not seem cover the damage.

The bonus (if you can call it that) with smoking is that the tax revenues offset the costs to the NHS. However, fast food outlets (e.g McD) employ people on minimal wages (topped up by tax credits), only to then dodge large amounts of Tax via creative - but "all within the rules" - accounting.  On the plus side, at least McDonalds bags & wrappers left strewn around the place are biodegradable on occasions.

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@evoman3957 wrote:

Now there's a thought, which reasonable people can't take issue with............refuse all the STUPID People treatment ( especially the ones with self inflicted conditions ) Drug Addicts, Alcoholics, Compulsive Eaters, Smokers......................Pot Holers that go down when it's raining...........People over 60 who want to climb "Ben Nevis" in December ( Yes I've watched Helicopter Rescue )...........Problem solved NHS restored to it's former glory !!

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Well, this unreasonable person thinks denying treatment to drug addicts and alcoholics will add 'costs' to other areas. In crude terms, it's more cost-effective a 'smackhead' is treated via methadone on NHS, rather than left to their own devices to raise their own funds through other means - burglary, sex-trade, etc.

Sometimes it's important to look at the value rather than the cost alone.