RAND Corporation
Small soda taxes insufficient to curb consumption among children, study finds
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, April 12th, 2010
Such small taxes may reduce consumption in some subgroups such as children at greater risk for obesity, but reducing consumption for all children would require larger taxes, according to the study published by the journal Health Affairs.
"If the goal is to noticeably reduce soda consumption among children, then it would have to be a very substantial tax" said Roland Sturm, the study's lead author and a senior economist at RAND, a nonprofit research...
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