Soda tax
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A soda tax or soft drink tax is a tax or surcharge on soft drinks. It may focus on sugar-sweetened beverages (soda sweetened with sugar, corn syrup, or other caloric sweeteners and other carbonated and uncarbonated drinks, and sports and energy drinks). As an example of Pigovian taxation, it aims to discourage unhealthy diets and offset the economic costs of obesity.
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- Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University
- Rudd Sound Bites, the Rudd Center blog
- UNESDA Industry Opinion on a Soda Tax
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