US RESEARCHERS HAIL OBESITY TAX FOR SOFT DRINKS
September 1st, 2009
BY EMMA JACKSON and MONICA DOBIE
USA researchers and health advocates have called in an influential journal for heavier taxes on sugary soft drinks, in an effort to curb consumption and raise funds for new health programmes.
Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, New York City health commissioner Dr Thomas Farley and academics from the Harvard School of Public Health and Yale University proposed an excise tax of 1% per fluid ounce for any beverages with added caloric sweeteners. Their study found that although 33 US states currently tax soft drinks and ...
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