Sentences with phrase «of soda taxes»

[1] Fletcher, J. M., Frisvold, D. E. and Tefft, N. (2014), NON-LINEAR EFFECTS OF SODA TAXES ON CONSUMPTION AND WEIGHT OUTCOMES.

Non-linear effects of soda taxes on consumption and weight outcome [1], published in the US publication Health Economics casts serious doubt on the effectiveness of imposing a tax on sugar - sweetened beverages to curb obesity.

Non-linear effects of soda taxes on consumption and weight outcomes [i], published in the US publication Health Economics casts serious doubt on the effectiveness of imposing a tax on sugar - sweetened beverages to curb obesity.

American cities like Berkeley, Boulder, Seattle, and Philadelphia have already put in place some version of the soda tax, which is aimed at reducing obesity.

The introduction of a soda tax in Mexico in 2014, for instance, led to 3,000 job losses and soda consumption returned to pre-tax levels by mid-2015, thereby having no impact on public health.»

This partnership was widely interpreted as a ploy to stave off the kind of soda tax and cap initiatives proposed by the Bloomberg administration in New York City.

In the study, researchers analyzed the effect of a soda tax implemented in Berkeley, Calif., in early 2015.

The study by the scientists is one of the first to come up with real estimates of the health benefits and cost savings of this kind of a soda tax.

Not exact matches

As higher costs are passed on to consumers, supporters aim to put a dent in sales, as was the case in Berkeley, where according to public health officials retail purchases of sugar - sweetened beverages dropped nearly 10 % during the first year of that city's soda tax.

Seattle's City Council voted on Monday to levy a special tax on sodas and other sugary beverages sold to consumers, becoming the latest of several local government bodies across the country to take such action for the sake of public health.

Beverage makers have largely weathered such taxes in places like Mexico, which introduced a soda tax in 2014, as sales of other products including water rise.

The repeal followed a similar legislative defeat in Santa Fe, New Mexico earlier in the year and was seen at the time as a loss of momentum for soda tax advocates.

I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.

Despite the majority of its residents» opposition, Philadelphia became the first major U.S. city to approve a 1.5 - cent - per - ounce tax on soda and other sugary drinks.

The National Soft Drink Producers Association, which includes Coca - Cola Femsa SAB and Arca Continental SAB, Latin America's biggest Coca - Cola bottlers, estimates that a 1 peso per - liter soda tax would result in the loss of 20,000 jobs, from workers who cut sugar cane to those in factories.

The ordinance imposes a general tax on the distribution of sugar - sweetened beverages including soda, energy drinks, and heavily sweetened tea, as well as added caloric sweeteners used to produce these sugar - sweetened beverages (for example the premade syrup used to make fountain drinks).

«Suddenly we're taxing soda back there all of a sudden.

That gets interpreted kind of like tantamount to the soda tax in Chicago, for me,» Maddon added.

And there are also many, many things we could be doing to encourage children's acceptance of healthier school meals: imposing meaningful restrictions on children's junk food advertising; requiring food education in schools — not just nutrition education, but offering kids a real understanding of our food system, and overtly inoculating them against the allure of hyper - processed and fast food; teaching all children basic cooking skills; getting more gardens into schools; encouraging restaurants to ditch the standard breaded - and - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk food); improving food access; and so much more.

She makes the common sense argument that failing to pay for more healthful meals up front will only result in higher health care costs on the back end, and she considers a variety of ways to pay for universal lunch, such as a tax on soda or soda advertising, an increase in the capital gains tax, or by reducing income guarantees and price supports to producers of corn and soy.

Beverage Association, called Cheh's soda tax proposal «nothing short of a money grab from the working families and citizens of the District of Columbia.»

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Examples of actions which have had these effects include school nutrition standards in Queensland, Australia; a vending machine ban in France; a front - of - package symbol that led to product reformulation in the Netherlands; soda taxes in France and Mexico; a programme targeting retail environments in New York City, USA; a programme promoting increased water consumption in schools in Hungary; school fruit and vegetable programmes in Netherlands and Norway; a healthy marketing campaign in Los Angeles County, USA and a comprehensive nutrition and health programme in France.

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Apparently, some cities have vowed to spend a pre-determined portion of the money raised by a soda tax on improving school lunches.

In Washington, the companies doubled their lobbying expenditures to $ 175 million during the first three years of the Obama administration, Reuters found, and defeated «soda tax» proposals in 24 states.

Meanwhile, things that could address systemic problems and save the city and state real money, including public pension reform, get shouldered off the road in favor of transient quick fixes like taxes on soda and cigarettes.

Lawmakers worried about re-election ran away from any talk of a tax hike on any product as ubiquitous as soda.

Groups involved in the fight over the soda tax and wine in grocery stores contributed more than $ 1 million into the campaign coffers of lawmakers over the past six months.

Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg is quietly finishing as one of the biggest spenders of the 2016 cycle, coming into Election Day having donated more than $ 65 million — overwhelmingly to issue campaigns for local gun control and soda tax measures, but also to 18 individual candidates.

And is a dead ringer for orange soda (on which, in spite of former Gov. David Paterson's best efforts, there is still no so - called «fat» tax).

Kenneth Raske, president of the Greater New York Hospital Association, has told his board and others that a soda tax could help ameliorate the financial hit the state's health care system faces with the potential repeal of Obamacare under a Trump administration and Republican - controlled Congress.

Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Bloomberg, who tried — and failed — to ban over-sized sodas in the Big Apple, and provided millions of dollars to support successful soda - tax initiatives in Mexico and Berkeley, Calif., is now backing a campaign to pass a sugary - drinks tax in Philadelphia.

[26][27][28][29][30][31] In late 2008, Young Americans for Liberty, with the endorsement of Rep. Paul, organized a protest called the Binghamton Tea Party for January 24 of the following year where participants dressing in Native American costumes and dumping soft drinks into New York's Susquehanna River, as a protest of former NY Governor David Paterson's proposed 18 % tax increase on soda.

Kevin Finnegan, the political director of 1199 S.E.I.U., had a simple explanation for the soda tax defeat: money.

A tax on sugar - sweetened beverages such as sodas, energy drinks, sweet teas, and sports drinks would reduce obesity in adolescents more than other policies, such as exercise or an advertising ban, and would also generate significant revenue for additional obesity prevention activities, say researchers writing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Coke is spending millions of dollars here and has a marketing PR budget that researchers don't have so they can take the findings and share them and use them to try to fight policy and all these laws that are being debated about taxing soda.

His short animation on the topic of applying taxes to sugary beverages gets directly to the point... and the point is bad news for the giants in the soda industry.

These new study results differ from those of a working paper on Berkeley soda prices published in August, which suggested that a smaller proportion of the tax was passed through to the retail price of soda.

Berkeley officials hoped that the soda tax would raise prices and lead residents to avoid energy - dense sugar - sweetened beverages, considered a culprit for high rates of obesity and chronic disease.

A new study finds that Berkeley's soda tax led to higher retail prices of sugary drinks sold in the city.

«Regardless of price increases, soda taxes can be a means of sustainably funding public health efforts,» said study senior author Dr. Kristine Madsen, an associate professor at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health.

On Nov. 8, the California cities of Albany, Oakland and San Francisco, as well as Boulder, Colo., will be voting on whether to institute soda taxes.

FRIDAY, Nov. 4, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- Suppliers try to counter the effects of taxes on soda and other sugar - sweetened drinks by absorbing some of the extra cost themselves, a new study finds.

The researchers estimate that putting a penny - per - ounce soda tax on sweetened drinks could prevent almost 8,000 strokes, 100,000 instances of heart disease, as well as 26,000 deaths each year.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed decreasing the intake of such drinks among its main obesity prevention tactics in 2009, and some states and cities, like New York City and California already are thinking about such soda taxes.

The researchers modeled these health benefits by taking into mind the number of sodas and sugary drinks Americans consume each year and calculating how much less they'd drink if a penny - per - ounce tax were added on to these beverages.

Media coverage of this tax has brought to national attention the crisis we have with soda consumption.