THE TRIGGERING EVENT OCCURRED in december 2001. that's when the surgeon General,observing that about 300,000 deaths per year are now associated with overweight and obesity, warned that those conditions might soon cause as much preventable disease and death as smoking.
The report prompted journalists to call John Banzhaf III ,an antismoking activist and a law professor at George Washington University Schoolof law , to see whether tobacco style litigation might be in the offing."i said,"well,no,there are important differences,'" Banzhaf recalls. But even as he talked,he began to change his mind.
Another key academic strategist in the tobacco wars, Northeastern University law professor Richard Daynard, was soon drawn into the fray. At a conference last April to discuss Marion Nestle's new book ,Food Politics, he was asked to talk about possible obesity-re- lated litigation.
(Nestle,who chairs the nutrition department at New York University and whose name is pronounced NESSel, is not related to the founders of the food company .) Daynard,like Banzhaf, at first saw no analogy to tobacco. But as he read Nestle's book,he,too,began to change his mind.
THE TRIGGERING EVENT OCCURRED in december 2001. that's when the surgeon General,observing that about 300,000 deaths per year are now associated with overweight and obesity, warned that those conditions might soon cause as much preventable disease and death as smoking. The report prompted journalists to call John Banzhaf III ,an antismoking activist and a law professor at George Washington University Schoolof law , to see whether tobacco style litigation might be in the offing."i said,"well,no,there are important differences,'" Banzhaf recalls. But even as he talked,he began to change his mind.Another key academic strategist in the tobacco wars, Northeastern University law professor Richard Daynard, was soon drawn into the fray. At a conference last April to discuss Marion Nestle's new book ,Food Politics, he was asked to talk about possible obesity-re- lated litigation.(Nestle,who chairs the nutrition department at New York University and whose name is pronounced NESSel, is not related to the founders of the food company .) Daynard,like Banzhaf, at first saw no analogy to tobacco. But as he read Nestle's book,he,too,began to change his mind.
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