At the risk of straying slightly off topic there are other reasons to boycott Coca Cola, and indeed a great many people do just that. The company causes huge environmental damage in India by extracting scarce water supplies, and polluting what remains. And in South America, there is evidence that the company is up to its neck in arranging anti- trade union activities including dismissals, death threats, imprisonment of trade union organisers and possibly even assassinations. I never touch the stuff.