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Taxes on sugary drinks cut consumer sales by 33%, study says (www.cnn.com)

submitted 10 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/health@lemmy.world

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Raising the price of sugar-sweetened sodas, coffees, teas and energy, sports and fruit drinks by an average of 31% reduced consumer purchases of those drinks by a third, according to a new analysis of restrictions implemented in five US cities.

“What we measured is how consumers change their consumption in response to price changes,” said study author Scott Kaplan, an assistant professor of economics at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

“For every 1% increase in price, we found a 1% decrease in purchases of these products,” Kaplan said. “The decrease in consumer purchases occurred almost immediately after the taxes were put in place and stayed that way over the next three years of the study.”

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[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fat tax!

[–] lemonuri@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

For a moment I thought you were yelling to try and stop a taxi for overweight people.

On a more serious note, they were going to introduce a sugar tax here in Germany a couple of years ago but politicians instead decided to ask companies nicely to please reduce sugar in their products. It's been going great, so far.