Not exact matches
MarketWatch's Emma Court joins Catey Hill and Quentin Fottrell to talk why the
consumption of bottled - water increased in the U.S. while carbonated
soft drinks fell — and whether we ultimately need to be consuming either.
A trend exists for greater changes in
consumption of sugar sweetened
drinks (non-concentrated) and water as income rises and, conversely, greater changes in
consumption of diet
soft drinks (non-concentrated) and milk as income
falls.
In America per capita
consumption of
soft drinks has
fallen about 25 per cent since peaking at about 200 litres per person in the 1990s.
Per capita
soft drink consumption in Mexico was
falling well before the introduction of a tax and there is little evidence their discriminatory tax has had the effects claimed today.