date:Nov 08, 2012
past several years, spending tens of millions of dollars in the process. The ABA's war on soda taxes has even garnered its own episode of Parks and Recreations.
Yet if executives at Coca-Cola and Pepsi are rejoicing in their victory today, those working to fight obesity in the public health sector are surely shaking their heads in dismay. Many of them have long argued that a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages would be one of the most effective measures the government could take to reduce calorie