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1. Sugar-sweetened beverage taxes: Lessons to date and the future of taxation

Author

Popkin, Barry M. and Ng, Shu Wen

Subjects
Consumption taxes -- Health aspects, Carbonated beverages -- Health aspects -- Taxation, Sugar substitutes -- Health aspects -- Supply and demand, Biological sciences
Abstract

Author(s): Barry M. Popkin *, Shu Wen Ng To date, across the globe, over 45 countries, cities, and regions have instituted sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes. Fig 1 is a map [...]

Published
2021
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2. Do Taxes on Soda Really Lower Sugar Intake?

Author

Reinberg, Steven

Subjects
Carbonated beverages -- Health aspects -- Taxation, Sugar -- Health aspects -- Consumption data, Health
Abstract

Byline: Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Sept. 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that good intentions may not always be enough when it comes to public health. According [...]

Published
2022

4. Can soft drink taxes reduce population weight?

Author

Fletcher, Jason M., Frisvold, David, and Tefft, Nathan

Subjects
Obesity -- Health aspects -- Research -- Control, Carbonated beverages -- Health aspects -- Taxation, Business, Economics
Abstract

Soft drink consumption has been hypothesized as one of the major factors in the growing rates of obesity in the United States. Nearly two-thirds of all states currently tax soft drinks using excise taxes, sales taxes, or special exceptions to food exemptions from sales taxes to reduce consumption of this product, raise revenue, and improve public health. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of changes in state soft drink taxes on body mass index (BMI), obesity, and overweight. Our results suggest that soft drink taxes influence BMI, but that the impact is small in magnitude. (JEL 118, H75), 1. INTRODUCTION Obesity has been labeled as an ongoing epidemic in the United States and many other developed countries (James et al., 2001) as a result of the substantial increase [...]

Published
2010
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5. Fat city should not become tax city

Author

Snowden, Christopher

Subjects
Candy -- Taxation -- Health aspects, Obesity -- Risk factors, Tax policy -- Health aspects, Confectionery -- Taxation -- Health aspects, Tax law -- Health aspects, Excise tax -- Health aspects, Carbonated beverages -- Health aspects -- Taxation, Tax law
Abstract

EXTENDING 'sin taxes'' to certain foods and soft drinks increasingly is seen as a practical response to obesity and obesity-related diseases. Several countries and most U.S. states have some form […]

Published
2015

6. Should there be an extra tax on soda?

Subjects
Taxation -- Public opinion, Carbonated beverages -- Health aspects -- Taxation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

As you read on page 2, the city of Boulder, Colorado, and three California cities (San Francisco, Oakland, and Albany) recently approved an extra tax on sugary drinks. Health officials [...]

Published
2017

7. Soda-tax showdown heads for ballot in San Francisco, Berkeley

Author

Goodale, Gloria

Subjects
San Francisco, California -- Tax policy, Berkeley, California -- Tax policy, Tax rates -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Political aspects, Beverage industry -- Taxation, Referendum, Carbonated beverages -- Health aspects -- Taxation, Government regulation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Gloria Goodale A national battle over a so-called soda tax on sugar-sweetened drinks intensified today, as opponents announced plans to significantly increase spending to defeat November ballot initiatives in [...]

Published
2014

8. Soda: Weighing Health Effects, Taxes

Subjects
Beverage industry -- Taxation -- Health aspects, Carbonated beverages -- Health aspects -- Taxation, Sales tax -- Health aspects, General interest
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126511372 ROBERT SIEGEL, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I,m Robert Siegel, MICHELE NORRIS, host: And I,m Michele Norris. (Soundbite [...]

Published
2010

9. Mexico Takes Bloomberg-Like Swing at Soaring Obesity

Author

Malkin, Elisabeth

Subjects
Obesity -- Health aspects -- Prevention, Soft drink industry -- Taxation -- Health aspects, Health promotion -- Health aspects, Carbonated beverages -- Health aspects -- Taxation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

MEXICO CITY -- Rosa Isela Sandate kicked her drinking habit about six months ago and swears she will never go back. ''I used to drink three or four a day,'' [...]

Published
2013

11. Kansas City Star

Subjects
Carbonated beverages -- Health aspects -- Taxation, News, opinion and commentary, Taxation, Health aspects
Abstract

Columnist Yael T. Abouhalkah demonstrates why newspaper circulation is going in the right direction: The excellent idea of taxing soda appears to have a new and huge ally--President Barack Obama. [...]

Published
2009

12. Teens who drink soda drink an average of two to three 12-ounce cans a day

Subjects
Obesity -- Risk factors, Soft drink industry -- Taxation -- Health aspects, Carbonated beverages -- Health aspects -- Taxation, Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies, General interest
Abstract

Teens who drink soda drink an average of two to three 12-ounce cans a day. In the 1970s, they drank twice as much milk as soda, and now they drink [...]

Published
2009

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