Sugar taxes continue to hit the headlines, and whether you have or haven’t advocated for such a measure to try and reduce consumption this study by Rachel Arthur, Elaine Watson, Niamh Michail, Gary Scattergood, Flora Southey takes a look around the globe to at some of the markets where taxes have been introduced or are under debate.
HTTPS://WWW.FOODNAVIGATOR-LATAM.COM/ARTICLE/2019/12/18/SUGAR-TAXES-THE-GLOBAL-PICTURE-IN-2019
You may also be interested in two studies from Spain and the UK that show contrasting results:
https://www.miragenews.com/stu dies-offer-differing-perspectives-on-534320/
Advocacy Action: Where soda, other food and drink taxes have been successfully implemented it has usually been the result of a broad coalition of interests advocating for their introduction. If you are interested in going down this route, talk to any diabetes or comorbidity patient groups, medical professional bodies with an interest in this area, and politically if possible work across party to build a coalition of support that will be difficult to challenge