Plan to tackle obesity by banning multi buy offers on sugary products in Scotland I posted a link to the times to what I initially thought was a full article but it was only a paragraph before a paywall. So, I deleted it as it's useless.  Shops face ban on sweet offers to reduce obesityThe Times (subscription)Multi-buy promotions of sugar-rich food and drink could be banned in shops throughout Scotland as part of plans to reduce the country's obesity epidemic. They tried this tactic to reduce alcohol consumption. And it seemingly had very little impact. This will go the same way. Here's an older article on plans to remove sugary products from the point-of-sale: http://www.scottishgrocer.co.uk/2013/07/till-point-sweets-under-threat/ The problem really isn't the candy at the till. The problem is fat people being fat. Now, all this regulation and some is somehow needed to combat obesity, but it will continue to do nothing towards obesity until there is a full blown public health campaign with imagery akin to our haes success stories. Even then, there would be complaints galore and it would likely get pulled. And the entire uk obesity government strategy... (I've read the whole damn thing) is a consultation mess of every other factor you can possibly think of. It's like the government equivalent of a fat person making excuses for why they a) are fat and b) why they can't lose weight. (Not that far from the truth if the fat MPs are anything to go by) The reason is simple: No political entity in this country has the temerity to shitlord the electorate in any way shape or form.  Instead, we get cutesy campaign change for life with cartoon "Morph" style things blaming sugar consumption, I won't subject you all to it so here's a five second clip: http://youtu.be/Obe56ZXiNxk There's no hope, the only hope to come back from the precipice of obesity overshadowing the NHS and costing the economy billions is to actually get through to the poisoned fat people. Yet, we all know how that would go. Cue the REEE. I keep thinking there's hope. There really isn't.  Edit, English today I cannot.