Taxes and subsidies are increasingly being considered as potential policy instruments to
incentivize consumers to improve their food and beverage consumption patterns and related …

Introduction Reducing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption through taxation is a
promising public health response to the obesity epidemic in the US This study quantifies the …

Childhood and adolescent obesity is associated with serious adverse lifetime health
consequences and its prevalence has increased rapidly. Soft drink consumption has also …

Monthly data derived from the Nielsen Homescan Panel for calendar years 1998 through
2003 are used to estimate the effects of a proposed tax on sugar‐sweetened beverages …

Using scanner data, we estimated demand for nine nonalcoholic beverages under habit
formation. We found strong evidence for habit formation. Although demand for sugar …

Soft drink consumption has been hypothesized as one of the major factors in the growing
rates of obesity in the United States. Nearly two‐thirds of all states currently tax soft drinks …

In response to concerns about childhood obesity, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
released two reports documenting food and beverage marketing expenditures to children …

This paper investigates the impact of sugar‐sweetened beverages (SSB) taxes on
consumption, bodyweight and tax burden for low‐income, middle‐income and high‐income …

The link between high US obesity rates and the over-consumption of added sugars, largely
from sodas and fruit drinks, has prompted calls for a tax on caloric sweetened beverages …

Background As part of the Global Strategy on Oral health, the World Health Organization
(WHO) is exploring cost-effective interventions for oral health, including taxation on sugar …