Obesity And The Sprawl Index
26 August 2004 - 12:00pm
Andrew Ferguson ridicules the Smart Growth America study that claims a link between obesity and urban sprawl.
"Thanks to the efforts of Smart Growth America and its allies, we are getting close to formulating the perfect policy non sequitur. Here's my proposal: Fat people who don't pay their child support payments should be banned from eating potato chips while shopping for guns at Wal-Mart. "
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Bloomberg, July 27, 2004
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