Originally Posted by
crackerdog
...If you care about people's heath, then you should do everything in your power to support bikes because the health consequences of no physical excercize far exceeds the risk of head injury on a bike. Also, the garbage that people consume as 'food' is far more dangerous than bicycling, so go after the grocery stores before you start passing dangerous laws that actually create more risk than they solve.
I say send squads into peoples' homes for surprise cupboard checks. Visits from the government medical techs with fat calipers to see if they can pinch an inch, and vials to fill with blood for the big lab downtown. A hefty Cheet-o tax on every piece of junkfood that goes in our mouths and for every extra pound. Anyone who argues for helmet compulsion on the basis of the public health burden should willingly endorse all of that as well.