Sentences with phrase «soda tax as»

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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 taAs 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 taas 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.

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.

Small measures required as Philadelphia soda tax adds up Philadelphia's soda tax came into force on Sunday, and is reportedly causing a stir in the city's check - out aisles.

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).

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.

Watch as BBC Daily Politics host Andrew Neil gets his hat handed to him — ever so politely - by a 10 - year - old girl named Charlotte in a debate over soda taxes and policies to curb unhealthy foods in... [Continue reading]

Officials said the program, estimated to cost as much as $ 23 million over four years, could be paid for through a citywide soda tax.

The Academy has not supported controversial nutrition policies that might upset corporate sponsors, such as limits on soft drink sizes, soda taxes, or GMO labels;

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.

AG Andrew Cuomo opposes the soda tax and the cigarette tax increase as a means to close the budget deficit.

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

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.

In addition, the new proposed tax would eliminate the current sales tax on diet sodas as well as on bottled water, the Times reported.

[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.

A tax on sugar - sweetened beverages such as sodas, energy drinks, sweet teas and sports drinks could reduce obesity in adolescents, and exercise promotion, such as after - school physical activity programs, could impact younger children in the fight against fat.

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.

The study comes as other cities around the country are considering their own soda tax measures.

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.

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.

(Similar taxes have been proposed, and some implemented, at the state and local levels for soda and junk food, as well.)

This article is just crazy... You should raise a tax against soda's lobbies as we did in France for public healthy reasons (espescially to protect the young people against sugar addiction and obesity; for instance sodas are forbidden in schools» restaurants).

Watch out public health advocates - as soda taxes are bubbling up in cities across the nation - the beverage industry is working to choke off this expression of local democracy.

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Watch out public health advocates — as soda taxes are bubbling up in cities across the nation — the beverage industry is working to choke off this expression of local democracy.