Lots of people are promoting a sugar tax to help fight obesity. More fools them.

Everyone should know that any government, the current or future governments, would steal the tax collected and spend it on other wasteful ideas rather than spend it on health. Just think about the amount stolen from all the areas of road and petrol tax collected.

One of the main problems in my opinion is lack of exercise and proportion sizes. One no longer hears in surrounding gardens of ones homes the sound of children's voices. One rarely sees children cycling round the quieter suburban streets either.

Where have all the children gone? Yep they are inside playing with the computer, phones or games.

It is stupid to put the blame entirely on sugar, sweets and fizzy drinks have been around for more than 100 years and its only in recent years that obesity has become a problem and can probably be traced back to the advent of the computer and more so games and phones.

A Bourne, Tauranga