So, I've got a highly speculative hypothesis that BIG COFFEE will have a similar tobacco-like health event in the future. These are my semi-conspiratorial circumstantial evidences:
1. It's basically burnt bean water. Roasted is just a marketing term.
2. The constant rate of "New Study Finds Coffee Improves [insert health benefit]" articles
3. The incredibly powerful forces (industrial, corporate, personal) that would hold back such an event
I'm not willing to defend this hypothesis, but I would love some steel-manning
It's a good question. There's two parts to it, whether the law allows for that, and whether or not the law should allow for it?
There are certainly some classes of items/products/services that allow X to legally bar Y from selling it to Z: airline tickets, sub-leasing apartments, software etc.