Obesity And The Sprawl Index

Andrew Ferguson ridicules the Smart Growth America study that claims a link between obesity and urban sprawl.

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August 26, 2004, 12:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"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. "

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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