An Epidemic of Meddling - The totalitarian implications of public health By Jacob Sullum

"In February, upon introducing the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) said the legislation “would give FDA broad powers to regulate tobacco products and protect public health.”

In 2004 Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) urged us to think about children’s entertainment “from a public health perspective.” In that light, she said, “exposing our children to so much of this unchecked media is a kind of contagion,” a “silent epidemic” that threatens “long-term public health damage to many, many children and therefore to society.”

In 2003 Surgeon General Richard Carmona, declaring that “obesity has reached epidemic proportions,” offered “a simple prescription that can end America’s obesity epidemic”: “Every American needs to eat healthy food in healthy portions and be physically active every day.”"

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