Enact and enforce social and workplace policies that make breast feeding more acceptable and accessible...and a tax on baby formula might be reasonable as well.
The health care reform takes a small step...:
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Employers would be required to provide an unpaid "reasonable break time for nursing mothers" in the first year after giving birth. Women would be provided a private place, other than a bathroom, to use a breast pump. The provision exempts companies with fewer than 50 workers if the requirement would impose "an undue hardship," a determination left to the employer to make.
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....but of course, the business community is outraged by this new mandate!
Then, extend the Family and Medical Leave Act so more low income and/or low skilled female workers can benefit and stay at home for the child's first year w/o fear of losing their job.....women who disproportionately are not covered by the FMLA.
And you might have a case for the tax you want....with exclusions for medical necessity.
But any comparison to the adverse effects of smoking/drinking is just assanine.