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To: Lane3 who wrote (13309)	2/25/2006 3:51:15 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 541485

I'm ok with not allowing the free disbursement of soda, and potato chips- even if people want it- just as I don't favor the free disbursement of Jack Daniels and Cigarettes in hospitals, no matter how much patients might want it. If crack were legal, I think I'd prefer hospitals not to give that away either. If you start giving formula to a baby in the hospital, odds are the baby won't nurse- because if you don't nurse right away your milk will dry up, and the baby won't want to nurse, because bottles are so much easier (and I agree that it seems to give forumla the stamp of approval with the hospital giving it away)- and so with free formula at the outset you are setting up a structural incentive to get mothers not to nurse, even though nursing is better for babies and mothers. It's not easy to nurse in this society, and most women are glaringly ignorant about nursing, and about the difficulties of first time nursing - so to further erode the number of women nursing by offering formula in the hospital for free seems just stupid, from a public policy perspective. Great law. I'm all for it.

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