A corner has determined that a woman died from drinking too much coke, it is reported she drank up to 10L/day (that's just over 2.5 gallons/day for you Yanks) this high amount of caffeine and sugar which were well over recommended safe limits, her consumption was so high that one of her children was born without enamel.
Coca-Cola of course deny the accusations citing other lifestyle choices helped to contribute.
One noticeable line in there was that the deceased and the family didn't think there would be anything wrong because there were no label warnings on the bottles. Personally I don't see the need to have warning labels on soft drink, surely people are educated enough to know a lot sugar and caffeine is bad for your health. And considering she would have mood swings, lack of energy and the shakes surely that would've been the first sign of trouble. While warning labels are needed for some things they certainly shouldn't be needed for everything or what should be common knowledge, we probably need it on water bottles too since water can also cause death.
So who is really at fault here? The woman for consuming that much soft drink and thinking there was nothing wrong with it? Coca-Cola for selling the product? The Government for not having an education system that informs how deadly caffeine is? Society for allowing this "blame someone else" mentality? Or something else?
I must also say that I have noticed a few stories on soft drink (pop, soda etc) and how morons have caused themselves harm by drinking too much, which makes me think the anti-soft drink lobby is making headway and the media are quickly finding their next agenda to push on people and manipulate public opinion. Hopefully it quietly dies before the politicians start to look for knee jerk reactions to gain popularity and start to impose further taxes on soft-drink and other sugary drinks.
