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I am ardently against bans like this and want way more radical solutions like banning in advertising (blanket, but I'd settle for "junk foods"), plain packaging and regulations on making products visually appealing, limits on sweetness to hide chemical bitterness outside of pharmaceuticals, nutritional infor clearly communicated more prominently than branding.
Distracting paternalism is useless at best and harmful at worst. These things are brightly coloured, have edgy fonts and names, and are disgustingly sweet because that works. Hit the corporate ghouls in the money where it hurts, don't blame teenagers for wanting to consume the drug that makes managing their life easier when it's packaged so attractively and sold everywhere.
I don't know what the right answer is, or whether or not those proposals would be effective, but I think we can both agree bans like this for cheap political points are actively unproductive to solving the actual problem.