Soda Taxes
Soda Tax Could Save Thousands of Lives and $1 Billion in MexicoMexicos soda tax is on course to prevent diabetes, heart attacks and strokes in more than 200,000 adults and to save nearly $1 billion in healthcare costs over a decade, a new study suggests.
- Soda Taxes May Spread if Voters Check Ballots in California, Colorado
As Americans vote for a new president on Tuesday, hundreds of thousands of voters in California's Bay Area and Boulder, Colorado, will also decide whether they want levies on sugary drinks, another step toward making ...
- How Britain's Soda Tax Plan Could Spur New Low-Sugar Drinks
A new soda tax in Britain, expected to become law, is different.
- Coke and Pepsi Fund Public Health Groups to Silence Them: Researchers
Coca-Cola and PepsiCo made donations to nearly 100 influential U.S. public health organizations from 2011 to 2015 in an effort to silence groups that might otherwise push for laws regulating soda, researchers contend.
- Can Putting a Tax on Soft Drinks Curb Obesity?
A 'soda tax' is a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages like soda and energy drinks. Sugary fizzy drinks have come up as of one of the major perpetrators of childhood obesity. A new study suggests that ...
