Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened BeveragesJ.Y. LeeW.V. Giannobile
The abstracts on this page have been chosen and edited byJohn R. Radford.#'The oral health community needs to band with our public health colleagues to support SSB (sugar-sweetened beverages) taxation to improve health.'doi:10.1038/sj.bdj.2017.267None...
It is unclear what the effects of taxes on sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) are on consumer behaviour and which consumers may be affected the most. We evaluate the effect of the SSB tax introduced in Catalonia (but not in the rest of Spain) in May 2017 using loyalty card data of monthly...
Medicine,Colleen Barry and her colleagues1present results from a national public opinion survey assess-ing the level of support for arguments commonly used in public debate about instituting taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages.Many in public health want to learn what will persuade the public to ...
Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: Summary of International Evidence and Experiences. World Bank; 2020. 2. Luger M, Lafontan M, Bes-Rastrollo M, Winzer E, Yumuk V, Farpour-Lambert N. Sugar-sweetened beverages and weight gain in children and adults: a systematic revie...
doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.24822 Key Points Question Are city-level excise taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) associated with youth body mass index (BMI)? Findings In this cohort study, 44 771 youth living in 4 California cities with SSB excise taxes had significant reductions in ...
This TWG facilitated the implementation of various collaborative actions, such as imposing taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages. Conversely, our findings suggest that a structure such as TWG may not be as effective in coordinating contribution collection for Zambia due to a history of limited success, ...
Objectives: We examined how a potential tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), or SSBs and >1% fat and/or high-sugar milk, would influence household food and beverage purchases among US households with a preschool child. We aimed to identify the lowest tax rate associated with meaningful cha...
On Wednesday the American Medical Association also adopted an obesity policy which supports taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages, using revenue to fund obesity education for consumers. The AMA says sugar-sweetened drinks comprise about half of American's added sugar intake, so reducing consumption of...
That burden would be particularly large for lower-income families. We find that a US tax on sugar-sweetened beverages would be highly regressive, imposing more than four times as much burden, relative to income, on people in the bottom fifth of the income distribution as on those in the top...