Sugar Suits: The Next Tobacco?

Will suits over added sugar in foods, including breakfast cereals, snack bars and beverages, be the next tobacco litigation?

Some think so.

“A lot of lawyers are drawing an analogy between added sugar and tobacco,” Maia Kats, litigation director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington, told Bloomberg BNA.

The analogy might not be a perfect fit, Kats said, but there are parallels.

“Excessive amounts of sugar are harmful to people,” Kats said. “I think that industry is aware of that harm, and to the extent they are packaging the product as nutritious, with that knowledge, ...