In a couple decades people are going to look back at the 1990's/2000's as a savage time - large tracts of the earth desperately poisoning themselves daily and being totally unconcerned by it.

According to the CDC[1] Diabetes incidence in the US has increased from roughly 2.5% to 7% since 1990.

The numbers are:

* 1980 - 2.54%

* 1990 - 2.52%

* 2000 - 4.40%

* 2010 - 6.95%

Unless legislation similar to that applied to cigarettes is introduced this train is going keep speeding further out of control. At least there are now increasing numbers of advocacy groups trying to make progress on the legislative side of things[2].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/statistics/slides/long_term_tre... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/17/upshot/soda-tax-passes-in...