The Public Health and Economic Benefits of Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
By K. Brownell, T. Farley, W. Willett, Barry M. Popkin, F. Chaloupka, Joseph W. Thompson, D. Ludwig. New England Journal of Medicine, 2009
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Consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages has increased in recent decades; evidence suggests that consumption of these beverages contributes to obesity and adverse health outcomes. The authors discuss the potential public health and economic benefits of taxing sugar-sweetened beverages.
Subfields: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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Citations in the corpus
- Sugar-sweetened beverages and risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes: Epidemiologic evidence (2010, background): “considered as a means of reducing intake levels as well as offsetting related health care costs [24].”
- The State of US Health, 1990-2010: Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (2013, neutral): “Preterm birth complications 9 (6-12) 14 (11-18) 14.”
- Pro v Con Debate: Role of sugar sweetened beverages in obesity Resolved: there is sufficient scientific evidence that decreasing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption will reduce the prevalence of obesity and obesity-related diseases (2013, positive): “Consumption of SSBs has increased dramatically in the past several decades among both children and adults (10).”
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Cigarette Tax Salience and Regressivity (2013, background): “…raising taxes on soft drinks as a way to combat population obesity, with some proponents calling for an expanded tax of any form on those products (Engelhard, Garson, and Dorn 2009) and others arguing that including the tax in the posted product price would be most effective (Brownell et al. 2009).”