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> ...suggested sweets, snacks and sugary drinks should be wrapped in plain packaging to make them less appealing, given the excess consumption of the sweet stuff
(I think some of the responses here are assuming the question is about treating sugar like smoking in other respects.)
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And sitting without physical activity too, please, it's much more dangerous.
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That's simply not going to happen because there is no "second hand sugar" scenario. Even alcohol, which is incredibly destructive to third parties by any measure (domestic abuse, drunk driving, etc), hasn't successfully been publicly vilified to the same extent as smoking.
It was, back in the 1920's.
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Didn't we try that with prohibition?
The Scandinavian countries show that if you do not prohibit completely, but just make people jump through some hoops to get it and/or make it very expensive, it sort of works.