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Cities with soda taxes saw sales of sugary drinks fall as prices rose, study finds (www.kpbs.org)

submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave to c/news

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Sales of sugary drinks fell dramatically across five U.S. cities, after they implemented taxes targeting those drinks – and those changes were sustained over time. That's according to a study published Friday in the journal JAMA Health Forum.

Researchers say the findings provide more evidence that these controversial taxes really do work. A claim the beverage industry disputes.

The cities studied were: Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., and Boulder, Colo. Taxes ranged from 1 to 2 cents per ounce. For a 2-liter bottle of soda, that comes out to between 67 cents to $1.30 extra in taxes.

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Kaplan and his colleagues found that, on average, prices for sugar-sweetened drinks went up by 33.1% and purchases went down by basically the same amount – 33%.

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[–] TurnItOff_OnAgain 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Soda is a real money maker too in fast food. That 32oz drink you are paying $2+ for only costs the restaurant 8-10c? And most of that is the cup.

[–] EdibleFriend 14 points 11 months ago

I know gas stations are a 300% mark up on fountain pop. At least thats what it was back when i worked in one like 15 years ago.