New Zealand Woman Overdoses on Coca-Cola

We would normally view this tragic story of a 30-year-old New Zealand mother of 8 who died of cardiac arrhythmia after drinking 2.2 gallons of Coca-Cola every day as something of a PR emergency–especially after reading that her family “had not considered her Coke habit dangerous because the drink did not carry any health warnings” and that her coroner recommended Coke add “appropriate warnings related to the dangers of consuming excessive quantities of the products” to all of its packaging.