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By one estimate, kids and teens get about 17 percent of their calories from added sugars — and about half of those calories come from drinks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While consumption of \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/98/1/180/4578319\">sugary drinks has declined\u003c/a> in the U.S., kids and teens still consume about 150 calories a day, on average, from them. That's about 12 ounces per day. But the heart association recommends that children consume no more than 8 ounces per week. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a huge difference between what a typical child is drinking ... and what the recommendations are,\" Muth says. By one estimate, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-health-nutrition/article/to-what-extent-have-sweetened-beverages-contributed-to-the-obesity-epidemic/591E6F0B7DF9ED6D309239AD661C643D\">sweetened beverages account for at least one-fifth of the weight gained\u003c/a> between 1977 and 2007 among people in the U.S. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new statement calls on local, state and national policymakers to consider raising the price of sugary drinks. Muth says taxes on sugary drinks have been shown to be successful. She says taxes are \"a great example of a way to increase the price of sugary drinks, which we know decreases consumption.\" The AAP and the AHA note that such taxes are already in place in U.S. cities including Berkeley, Calif., and Philadelphia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we've reported, a study published last year found that Philadelphians were about \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/04/13/601948072/philadadelphians-drink-less-sugary-soda-more-water-after-tax\">40 percent less likely to drink sweetened beverages daily\u003c/a> after the tax went into effect, compared with people in surrounding areas that didn't have a sugary drink tax. (One caveat: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/02/21/696709717/u-s-soda-taxes-work-studies-suggest-but-maybe-not-as-well-as-hoped\">Other studies suggest\u003c/a> that people in cities with soda taxes will go outside the city to buy sugary drinks.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soda industry has spent millions of dollars to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/10/20/498589273/trick-or-treat-critics-blast-big-sodas-efforts-to-fend-off-taxes\">fend off soda taxes\u003c/a>. And the American Beverage Association argues there is a better way to reduce the amount of sugar consumers get from beverages. \"We are supporting parents who want less sugar in their kids' diets by creating more drinks than ever before with less or no sugar,\" says William Dermody, spokesperson for the ABA. \"Today, 50 percent of all beverages sold contain zero sugar as we drive toward a goal of reducing beverage calories consumed by 20 percent by 2025.\"\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new joint policy statement also called on federal and state governments to support efforts to decrease the marketing of sugary drinks to children and teens. \"As a nation we have to say 'no' to the onslaught of marketing of sugary drinks to our children,\" Rachel Johnson, a professor emeritus of nutrition at the University of Vermont and the former chair of the AHA's nutrition committee, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/Pages/AAP-and-AHA-Endorse-Suite-of-Policies-to-Reduce-Kids-Consumption-of-Sugary-Drinks.aspx\">said in a statement\u003c/a>. \"We know what works to protect kids' health and it's time we put effective policies in place that bring down rates of sugary drinks consumption, just like we've done with tobacco.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/03/25/706635209/to-curb-kids-sugary-drink-habits-pediatricians-now-call-for-soda-taxes\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association, in a joint statement, endorsed taxes on sugary drinks, restrictions on marketing to kids and incentives for healthier purchases.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1553615910,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":576},"headData":{"title":"To Curb Kids' Sugary Drink Habits, Pediatricians Now Call For Soda Taxes | KQED","description":"The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association, in a joint statement, endorsed taxes on sugary drinks, restrictions on marketing to kids and incentives for healthier purchases.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"To Curb Kids' Sugary Drink Habits, Pediatricians Now Call For Soda Taxes","datePublished":"2019-03-26T15:58:30.000Z","dateModified":"2019-03-26T15:58:30.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"133134 https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=133134","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2019/03/26/to-curb-kids-sugary-drink-habits-pediatricians-now-call-for-soda-taxes/","disqusTitle":"To Curb Kids' Sugary Drink Habits, Pediatricians Now Call For Soda Taxes","nprImageCredit":"Melissa Lomax Speelman","nprByline":"Allison Aubrey, NPR Food","nprImageAgency":"Getty Images","nprStoryId":"706635209","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=706635209&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/03/25/706635209/to-curb-kids-sugary-drink-habits-pediatricians-now-call-for-soda-taxes?ft=nprml&f=706635209","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 25 Mar 2019 19:49:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 25 Mar 2019 18:15:12 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 25 Mar 2019 19:49:41 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/133134/to-curb-kids-sugary-drink-habits-pediatricians-now-call-for-soda-taxes","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Pediatricians have long warned parents about the risks of consuming too many sugary drinks — including the link to Type 2 diabetes and obesity.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11727515,news_11727998","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nNow, the nation's leading group of kids' doctors, the American Academy of Pediatrics, together with the American Heart Association, has endorsed a \u003ca href=\"https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2019/03/21/peds.2019-0282\">range of strategies designed to curb children's consumption\u003c/a> — including taxes on sugary drinks, limits on marketing sugary drinks to kids and financial incentives to encourage healthier beverage choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For children, the biggest source of added sugars often is not what they eat, it's what they drink,\" says Natalie Muth, a pediatrician and the lead author of the new joint policy statement. By one estimate, kids and teens get about 17 percent of their calories from added sugars — and about half of those calories come from drinks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While consumption of \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/98/1/180/4578319\">sugary drinks has declined\u003c/a> in the U.S., kids and teens still consume about 150 calories a day, on average, from them. That's about 12 ounces per day. But the heart association recommends that children consume no more than 8 ounces per week. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a huge difference between what a typical child is drinking ... and what the recommendations are,\" Muth says. By one estimate, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-health-nutrition/article/to-what-extent-have-sweetened-beverages-contributed-to-the-obesity-epidemic/591E6F0B7DF9ED6D309239AD661C643D\">sweetened beverages account for at least one-fifth of the weight gained\u003c/a> between 1977 and 2007 among people in the U.S. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new statement calls on local, state and national policymakers to consider raising the price of sugary drinks. Muth says taxes on sugary drinks have been shown to be successful. She says taxes are \"a great example of a way to increase the price of sugary drinks, which we know decreases consumption.\" The AAP and the AHA note that such taxes are already in place in U.S. cities including Berkeley, Calif., and Philadelphia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we've reported, a study published last year found that Philadelphians were about \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/04/13/601948072/philadadelphians-drink-less-sugary-soda-more-water-after-tax\">40 percent less likely to drink sweetened beverages daily\u003c/a> after the tax went into effect, compared with people in surrounding areas that didn't have a sugary drink tax. (One caveat: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/02/21/696709717/u-s-soda-taxes-work-studies-suggest-but-maybe-not-as-well-as-hoped\">Other studies suggest\u003c/a> that people in cities with soda taxes will go outside the city to buy sugary drinks.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soda industry has spent millions of dollars to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/10/20/498589273/trick-or-treat-critics-blast-big-sodas-efforts-to-fend-off-taxes\">fend off soda taxes\u003c/a>. And the American Beverage Association argues there is a better way to reduce the amount of sugar consumers get from beverages. \"We are supporting parents who want less sugar in their kids' diets by creating more drinks than ever before with less or no sugar,\" says William Dermody, spokesperson for the ABA. \"Today, 50 percent of all beverages sold contain zero sugar as we drive toward a goal of reducing beverage calories consumed by 20 percent by 2025.\"\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new joint policy statement also called on federal and state governments to support efforts to decrease the marketing of sugary drinks to children and teens. \"As a nation we have to say 'no' to the onslaught of marketing of sugary drinks to our children,\" Rachel Johnson, a professor emeritus of nutrition at the University of Vermont and the former chair of the AHA's nutrition committee, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/Pages/AAP-and-AHA-Endorse-Suite-of-Policies-to-Reduce-Kids-Consumption-of-Sugary-Drinks.aspx\">said in a statement\u003c/a>. \"We know what works to protect kids' health and it's time we put effective policies in place that bring down rates of sugary drinks consumption, just like we've done with tobacco.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/03/25/706635209/to-curb-kids-sugary-drink-habits-pediatricians-now-call-for-soda-taxes\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/133134/to-curb-kids-sugary-drink-habits-pediatricians-now-call-for-soda-taxes","authors":["byline_bayareabites_133134"],"categories":["bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_358","bayareabites_11070"],"tags":["bayareabites_14775","bayareabites_16272","bayareabites_449","bayareabites_14756","bayareabites_10800"],"featImg":"bayareabites_133135","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_124414":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_124414","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"124414","score":null,"sort":[1515890777000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"is-a-federal-junk-food-tax-in-our-future","title":"Is a Federal Junk Food Tax in Our Future?","publishDate":1515890777,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>If you’ve been following the news about the epidemic of diabetes and obesity in recent years, you know there have been a number of responses from public health advocates and policymakers—including \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2016/10/07/in-fighting-obesity-with-snap-program-well-need-both-the-carrot-and-the-stick/\">education programs\u003c/a>, encouraging \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2017/07/19/holistic-efforts-are-making-a-dent-in-childhood-obesity/\">more physical activity\u003c/a>, and developing \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2017/07/19/holistic-efforts-are-making-a-dent-in-childhood-obesity/\">holistic hospital and community interventions\u003c/a>. None of these interventions has generated the same level of response—or \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2017/08/28/congress-could-cut-soda-and-candy-from-snap-but-big-sugar-is-pushing-back/\">opposition\u003c/a>—as \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2016/11/10/a-big-blow-for-big-soda/\">soda taxes\u003c/a>. Now a \u003ca href=\"http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2017.304159\">new study\u003c/a> from New York University out today reports that these taxes work, and are legally and administratively viable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, excise taxes on soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages have passed in the California cities of Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, and Albany, as well as in Philadelphia, Seattle, and Boulder, and \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2015/03/25/can-the-countrys-first-junk-food-tax-reduce-obesity-and-diabetes-on-the-navajo-nation/\">the Navajo Nation taxes junk food\u003c/a>, including sugar-sweetened drinks. But there have been no state-level efforts yet, and on the national front, Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro’s \u003ca href=\"https://itep.org/the-short-and-sweet-on-taxing-soda/\">2014 and 2015 introductions of the SWEET Act\u003c/a> both died in committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Pomerantz, a public health researcher at New York University and the lead author of the study, expects the state and national legal landscape to change, though probably not during the current administration—the president’s dietary habits famously \u003ca href=\"https://www.eater.com/2017/12/4/16733356/trump-fast-food-diet-mcdonalds-campaign-corey-lewandowski\">lean toward junk food\u003c/a>, and the political climate makes a federal tax unlikely. In the meantime, she’s keen to keep the possibility of a federal junk-food tax in the public dialogue, because of the overarching improvements to health she says it would engender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Local taxes] only help people in those communities, which is of course important,” says Pomerantz. “But at some point, if you want a maximum public health benefit, you have to enact this nationally,” and also address foods that cause harm. She and other experts point to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ttb.gov/tax_audit/atftaxes.shtml\">national tobacco and alcohol taxes\u003c/a> as optimistic precedents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public-health advocates see excise taxes as promising because they are applied before the purchase of a product, which can encourage the manufacturer to raise its base price (and perhaps reformulate its product in order to avoid the tax altogether), and discourage consumers from buying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a different approach from a sales tax, which is applied at the cash register, adds no cost to the manufacturer, and may not affect a consumer’s decision-making; revenue from excise taxes can also be used to fund a community’s programs of choice. But soda taxes can be controversial, and are not always ultimately successful, as was the case with 2017 soda tax in Cook County, Illinois, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/10/why-chicagos-soda-tax-fizzled-after-two-months-and-what-it-means-for-the-anti-soda-movement/?utm_term=.99904092268d\">implemented, but quickly repealed\u003c/a>. And they face stiff opposition from beverage and grocery trade associations, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.gmaonline.org/issues-policy/health-nutrition/preserving-consumer-choice-for-all-americans/\">point to\u003c/a> a lack of results to date as reason to end soda taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unreasonable to expect obesity rates to go down as a result of a sugar tax alone,” says Marlene Schwartz, director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.uconnruddcenter.org/\">the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity\u003c/a> at the University of Connecticut, pointing out that tobacco taxes didn’t result in an immediate decline in lung cancer rates. “That’s why we go after other things at the same time,” like getting rid of soda machines in high schools, subsidizing healthy food, and setting nutritional guidelines for the national school lunch program. “Every piece is important,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to monitor taxes that have already gone into effect,” to learn how to make innovations in designing them in the future, says Donald Marron, director of economic policy issues at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/\">Urban Institute\u003c/a>, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C. “The first round of research papers looks at what happened to prices. Not stunningly, prices went up. The second round looks at whether people change their behavior. Also not surprising to me as a card-carrying economist, yes, people respond to prices. The third round, which is much harder to track: Does it change health problems?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dearth of data on diabetes and obesity rates surrounding declining soda consumption has fueled pushback from the Big Soda, which claims that changing consumption is not enough to impact disease. UC Berkeley public health researcher Kristine Madsen says, “That’s the most ridiculous, and false, argument I’ve ever heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madsen worked on the first\u003ca href=\"http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303362\"> study\u003c/a> about the impact of Berkeley’s soda tax, which went into effect in March 2015. “We’re looking at a big mass of population, 40 percent of whom don’t drink soda at all, some of whom aren’t suffering from obesity or diabetes, to see whether the whole population trends down,” she says. “That means there could be a 10-year horizon before we see a difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data is starting to come in from the communities that have enacted them. Berkeley, for example, showed a \u003ca href=\"http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002283\">9.6 percent drop in sugary drink sales\u003c/a> one year after its tax was enacted in March 2015. In Philadelphia, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/philadelphia-soda-tax-sales/\">sales of sodas and other sugary drinks dropped 57 percent\u003c/a> in the six months after its tax law went into effect in January 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And local campaigns have also influenced public understanding of the issues surrounding soda taxes. “Soda is such a focal product, so that’s where the conversation has started, and there’s a logic to that,” says Marron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of what’s made some local soda taxes successful has been a comparatively streamlined message: Sugar, especially the sugar in sodas, is bad; therefore, let’s reduce soda consumption. Another key to their success has been the hyper-locality of goals. Berkeley’s goal was to improve health. Philadelphia’s was to \u003ca href=\"http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/commentary/kenney-darrell-clarke-soda-tax-repeal-prek-schools-rebuild-20171020.html\">raise funds for pre-K and parks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where these policies are successful, they come from the community,” says Schwartz. As an example, she points to former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s 2012 attempt to put a cap on the portion sizes of sodas and other sugary beverages. It \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-06-26/new-york-big-soda-ban-rejected-by-n-y-top-court-as-overreach\">tanked\u003c/a>—in part, she claims, because Bloomberg failed to first find out what New Yorkers themselves wanted. “For these types of policies to be successful, they have to come from the community,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether they win or lose, local efforts help shed light on potential difficulties in enacting a federal tax. “You have to know your audience,” says Schwartz, and messaging is certainly easier to a population of 121,000 (Berkeley) or 1.6 million (Philadelphia) than it is to entire U.S. population of 323 million. They also illuminate challenges in passing excise taxes on junk food at any level of government—despite reports of consumption decreases from \u003ca href=\"http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/332882/assessment-impact-PH-tax-report.pdf?ua=1\">countries like Hungary\u003c/a>, which in 2011 passed legislation for a tax on sugar, salt, and the ingredients in energy drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the U.S., healthy food remains expensive and unhealthy food relatively inexpensive. “We’re trying to correct this trend,” says Schwartz. Within that context, “It does seem appropriate for the federal government to make food safe, and to expand the idea of safety to giving people they healthy food they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pomerantz says she isn’t sure Americans are ready for a shift to junk food taxes, but says, “I think it’s the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story originally appeared on \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2018/01/11/is-a-federal-junk-food-tax-in-our-future/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civil Eats\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As momentum builds for local soda taxes, a new study suggests taxes on junk food could be an effective public health tool.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1515890777,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":1277},"headData":{"title":"Is a Federal Junk Food Tax in Our Future? | KQED","description":"As momentum builds for local soda taxes, a new study suggests taxes on junk food could be an effective public health tool.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Is a Federal Junk Food Tax in Our Future?","datePublished":"2018-01-14T00:46:17.000Z","dateModified":"2018-01-14T00:46:17.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"124414 https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=124414","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2018/01/13/is-a-federal-junk-food-tax-in-our-future/","disqusTitle":"Is a Federal Junk Food Tax in Our Future?","nprByline":"Lela Nargi, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2018/01/11/is-a-federal-junk-food-tax-in-our-future/\">Civil Eats\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>","path":"/bayareabites/124414/is-a-federal-junk-food-tax-in-our-future","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’ve been following the news about the epidemic of diabetes and obesity in recent years, you know there have been a number of responses from public health advocates and policymakers—including \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2016/10/07/in-fighting-obesity-with-snap-program-well-need-both-the-carrot-and-the-stick/\">education programs\u003c/a>, encouraging \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2017/07/19/holistic-efforts-are-making-a-dent-in-childhood-obesity/\">more physical activity\u003c/a>, and developing \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2017/07/19/holistic-efforts-are-making-a-dent-in-childhood-obesity/\">holistic hospital and community interventions\u003c/a>. None of these interventions has generated the same level of response—or \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2017/08/28/congress-could-cut-soda-and-candy-from-snap-but-big-sugar-is-pushing-back/\">opposition\u003c/a>—as \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2016/11/10/a-big-blow-for-big-soda/\">soda taxes\u003c/a>. Now a \u003ca href=\"http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2017.304159\">new study\u003c/a> from New York University out today reports that these taxes work, and are legally and administratively viable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, excise taxes on soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages have passed in the California cities of Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, and Albany, as well as in Philadelphia, Seattle, and Boulder, and \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2015/03/25/can-the-countrys-first-junk-food-tax-reduce-obesity-and-diabetes-on-the-navajo-nation/\">the Navajo Nation taxes junk food\u003c/a>, including sugar-sweetened drinks. But there have been no state-level efforts yet, and on the national front, Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro’s \u003ca href=\"https://itep.org/the-short-and-sweet-on-taxing-soda/\">2014 and 2015 introductions of the SWEET Act\u003c/a> both died in committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Pomerantz, a public health researcher at New York University and the lead author of the study, expects the state and national legal landscape to change, though probably not during the current administration—the president’s dietary habits famously \u003ca href=\"https://www.eater.com/2017/12/4/16733356/trump-fast-food-diet-mcdonalds-campaign-corey-lewandowski\">lean toward junk food\u003c/a>, and the political climate makes a federal tax unlikely. In the meantime, she’s keen to keep the possibility of a federal junk-food tax in the public dialogue, because of the overarching improvements to health she says it would engender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Local taxes] only help people in those communities, which is of course important,” says Pomerantz. “But at some point, if you want a maximum public health benefit, you have to enact this nationally,” and also address foods that cause harm. She and other experts point to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ttb.gov/tax_audit/atftaxes.shtml\">national tobacco and alcohol taxes\u003c/a> as optimistic precedents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public-health advocates see excise taxes as promising because they are applied before the purchase of a product, which can encourage the manufacturer to raise its base price (and perhaps reformulate its product in order to avoid the tax altogether), and discourage consumers from buying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a different approach from a sales tax, which is applied at the cash register, adds no cost to the manufacturer, and may not affect a consumer’s decision-making; revenue from excise taxes can also be used to fund a community’s programs of choice. But soda taxes can be controversial, and are not always ultimately successful, as was the case with 2017 soda tax in Cook County, Illinois, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/10/why-chicagos-soda-tax-fizzled-after-two-months-and-what-it-means-for-the-anti-soda-movement/?utm_term=.99904092268d\">implemented, but quickly repealed\u003c/a>. And they face stiff opposition from beverage and grocery trade associations, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.gmaonline.org/issues-policy/health-nutrition/preserving-consumer-choice-for-all-americans/\">point to\u003c/a> a lack of results to date as reason to end soda taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unreasonable to expect obesity rates to go down as a result of a sugar tax alone,” says Marlene Schwartz, director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.uconnruddcenter.org/\">the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity\u003c/a> at the University of Connecticut, pointing out that tobacco taxes didn’t result in an immediate decline in lung cancer rates. “That’s why we go after other things at the same time,” like getting rid of soda machines in high schools, subsidizing healthy food, and setting nutritional guidelines for the national school lunch program. “Every piece is important,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to monitor taxes that have already gone into effect,” to learn how to make innovations in designing them in the future, says Donald Marron, director of economic policy issues at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/\">Urban Institute\u003c/a>, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C. “The first round of research papers looks at what happened to prices. Not stunningly, prices went up. The second round looks at whether people change their behavior. Also not surprising to me as a card-carrying economist, yes, people respond to prices. The third round, which is much harder to track: Does it change health problems?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dearth of data on diabetes and obesity rates surrounding declining soda consumption has fueled pushback from the Big Soda, which claims that changing consumption is not enough to impact disease. UC Berkeley public health researcher Kristine Madsen says, “That’s the most ridiculous, and false, argument I’ve ever heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madsen worked on the first\u003ca href=\"http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303362\"> study\u003c/a> about the impact of Berkeley’s soda tax, which went into effect in March 2015. “We’re looking at a big mass of population, 40 percent of whom don’t drink soda at all, some of whom aren’t suffering from obesity or diabetes, to see whether the whole population trends down,” she says. “That means there could be a 10-year horizon before we see a difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data is starting to come in from the communities that have enacted them. Berkeley, for example, showed a \u003ca href=\"http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002283\">9.6 percent drop in sugary drink sales\u003c/a> one year after its tax was enacted in March 2015. In Philadelphia, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/philadelphia-soda-tax-sales/\">sales of sodas and other sugary drinks dropped 57 percent\u003c/a> in the six months after its tax law went into effect in January 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And local campaigns have also influenced public understanding of the issues surrounding soda taxes. “Soda is such a focal product, so that’s where the conversation has started, and there’s a logic to that,” says Marron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of what’s made some local soda taxes successful has been a comparatively streamlined message: Sugar, especially the sugar in sodas, is bad; therefore, let’s reduce soda consumption. Another key to their success has been the hyper-locality of goals. Berkeley’s goal was to improve health. Philadelphia’s was to \u003ca href=\"http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/commentary/kenney-darrell-clarke-soda-tax-repeal-prek-schools-rebuild-20171020.html\">raise funds for pre-K and parks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where these policies are successful, they come from the community,” says Schwartz. As an example, she points to former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s 2012 attempt to put a cap on the portion sizes of sodas and other sugary beverages. It \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-06-26/new-york-big-soda-ban-rejected-by-n-y-top-court-as-overreach\">tanked\u003c/a>—in part, she claims, because Bloomberg failed to first find out what New Yorkers themselves wanted. “For these types of policies to be successful, they have to come from the community,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether they win or lose, local efforts help shed light on potential difficulties in enacting a federal tax. “You have to know your audience,” says Schwartz, and messaging is certainly easier to a population of 121,000 (Berkeley) or 1.6 million (Philadelphia) than it is to entire U.S. population of 323 million. They also illuminate challenges in passing excise taxes on junk food at any level of government—despite reports of consumption decreases from \u003ca href=\"http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/332882/assessment-impact-PH-tax-report.pdf?ua=1\">countries like Hungary\u003c/a>, which in 2011 passed legislation for a tax on sugar, salt, and the ingredients in energy drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the U.S., healthy food remains expensive and unhealthy food relatively inexpensive. “We’re trying to correct this trend,” says Schwartz. Within that context, “It does seem appropriate for the federal government to make food safe, and to expand the idea of safety to giving people they healthy food they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pomerantz says she isn’t sure Americans are ready for a shift to junk food taxes, but says, “I think it’s the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story originally appeared on \u003ca href=\"https://civileats.com/2018/01/11/is-a-federal-junk-food-tax-in-our-future/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civil Eats\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/124414/is-a-federal-junk-food-tax-in-our-future","authors":["byline_bayareabites_124414"],"categories":["bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_12555","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_10800"],"featImg":"bayareabites_124415","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_89508":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_89508","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"89508","score":null,"sort":[1415231708000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-did-berkeley-pass-a-soda-tax-bloombergs-cash-didnt-hurt","title":"How Did Berkeley Pass A Soda Tax? Bloomberg's Cash Didn't Hurt","publishDate":1415231708,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/sodasalt_enl-51109bffff722f5cc0ae2dfc9b1d5c194b53a02e-e1415231470574.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/sodasalt_enl-51109bffff722f5cc0ae2dfc9b1d5c194b53a02e-e1415231470574.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeley's efforts to pass a penny-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks faced opposition with deep pockets — but it also got sizable cash infusions from some big-name donors. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\" width=\"1000\" height=\"680\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89507\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley's efforts to pass a penny-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks faced opposition with deep pockets — but it also got sizable cash infusions from some big-name donors. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by Allison Aubrey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/11/05/361793296/how-did-berkeley-pass-a-soda-tax-bloombergs-cash-didnt-hurt\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (11/5/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's no secret that the American Beverage Association spent a lot of money to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/10/27/359325115/soda-makers-try-to-take-fizz-out-of-bay-area-tax-campaigns\">defeat soda tax initiatives\u003c/a> in California this election season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As local media \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/10/09/beverage-companies-spend-1-675-million-to-defeat-berkeley-soda-tax/\">reported\u003c/a>, ABA ads blanketed a Berkeley train station in the weeks leading up to Election Day. They were \"plastered on the walls across from the trains, pinned to spaces near the ticket machine, and laid out on the floor of the station,\" according to Berkeleyside.com.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the grass-roots \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/\">coalition\u003c/a> in Berkeley, Calif., that succeeded in getting 75 percent of voters to support the first-of-its-kind \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/11/05/361730578/berkeley-decides-to-try-taxing-away-its-soda-habit\">soda tax \u003c/a> in the nation is celebrating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a thrilling campaign, and I think it will be the first of many,\"\u003ca href=\"http://www.tramutola.com/\"> Larry Tramutola\u003c/a>, a consultant to the coalition, said during a post-election debrief Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure imposes a penny-per-ounce tax on most sugar-sweetened beverages. The coalition says it studied how the American Beverage Association worked to \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_21857220/more-than-2-million-spending-richmond-soda-tax\">defeat\u003c/a> a similar sugar-sweetened-beverage tax initiative in Richmond, Calif., in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Knowing the opposition, and knowing what they were likely to do, was important,\" Tramutola says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing that most likely helped the Berkeley coalition succeed: sizable infusions of cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Heart Association and the Center for Science in the Public Interest put their \u003ca href=\"http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/former-nyc-mayor-michael-bloomberg-donates-85000-to-support-berkeleys-proposed-soda-tax/\">support\u003c/a> behind the effort. And perhaps the most notable donor: \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.org/about/?gclid=Cj0KEQiAsueiBRCT8YOM4PDElsYBEiQAaiI4IHN4E71poB4YbGV0CrTkFIhY1OqxKTAbschojrt6xwIaAqJD8P8HAQ\">Michael Bloomberg\u003c/a> — who, during his tenure as the mayor of New York City,\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/11/174037195/judge-overturns-new-york-city-ban-on-big-sugary-sodas\"> pushed for\u003c/a> limits on big, sugary drinks — stepped in during the final weeks of this election season with \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/10/27/michael-bloomberg-has-now-spent-370k-in-support-of-measure-d-other-berkeley-election-news/\">donations\u003c/a>. Reports suggest Bloomberg gave $370,000 during the course of the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bloomberg cash infusions helped pay for television ads that ran on local, San Francisco-area broadcasts during the World Series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a conference call Wednesday, Howard Wolfson, senior adviser to Michael Bloomberg, said, \"Last night was a huge defeat for Big Soda and a big victory for public health. The results will surely encourage other municipalities across the nation to pursue similar initiatives to fight obesity and diabetes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolfson also indicated that Bloomberg may be willing to support organizers in other towns or municipalities that want to rally behind a soda tax in their communities. \"We look for a strong, locally led effort,\" Wolfson explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the movement can't be led from the top down; it's got to be bottom up. So, he says, \"we stand ready to assess and assist other local efforts in the coming election cycle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following its defeat in the Berkeley soda tax battle, the American Beverage Association \u003ca href=\"http://www.ameribev.org/news-media/news-releases-statements/more/337/\">released a statement\u003c/a> on its website saying, \"People don't support taxes and bans on common grocery items, like soft drinks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the ABA says the debate should move on from taxes and bans \"onto \u003ca href=\"http://deliveringchoices.org/\">real solutions\u003c/a>.\" Leading beverage companies, the ABA says, have \"set a goal to reduce beverage calories consumed per person by 20 percent by 2025.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The American Beverage Association poured tons of cash into the effort to defeat the penny-per-ounce sugary-drink tax. 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Bloomberg's Cash Didn't Hurt","nprByline":"Allison Aubrey","nprStoryId":"361793296","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=361793296&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/11/05/361793296/how-did-berkeley-pass-a-soda-tax-bloombergs-cash-didnt-hurt?ft=3&f=361793296","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 05 Nov 2014 18:35:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:50:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 05 Nov 2014 18:35:25 -0500","path":"/bayareabites/89508/how-did-berkeley-pass-a-soda-tax-bloombergs-cash-didnt-hurt","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/sodasalt_enl-51109bffff722f5cc0ae2dfc9b1d5c194b53a02e-e1415231470574.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/11/sodasalt_enl-51109bffff722f5cc0ae2dfc9b1d5c194b53a02e-e1415231470574.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeley's efforts to pass a penny-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks faced opposition with deep pockets — but it also got sizable cash infusions from some big-name donors. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\" width=\"1000\" height=\"680\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89507\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley's efforts to pass a penny-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks faced opposition with deep pockets — but it also got sizable cash infusions from some big-name donors. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by Allison Aubrey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/11/05/361793296/how-did-berkeley-pass-a-soda-tax-bloombergs-cash-didnt-hurt\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (11/5/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's no secret that the American Beverage Association spent a lot of money to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/10/27/359325115/soda-makers-try-to-take-fizz-out-of-bay-area-tax-campaigns\">defeat soda tax initiatives\u003c/a> in California this election season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As local media \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/10/09/beverage-companies-spend-1-675-million-to-defeat-berkeley-soda-tax/\">reported\u003c/a>, ABA ads blanketed a Berkeley train station in the weeks leading up to Election Day. They were \"plastered on the walls across from the trains, pinned to spaces near the ticket machine, and laid out on the floor of the station,\" according to Berkeleyside.com.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the grass-roots \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/\">coalition\u003c/a> in Berkeley, Calif., that succeeded in getting 75 percent of voters to support the first-of-its-kind \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/11/05/361730578/berkeley-decides-to-try-taxing-away-its-soda-habit\">soda tax \u003c/a> in the nation is celebrating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a thrilling campaign, and I think it will be the first of many,\"\u003ca href=\"http://www.tramutola.com/\"> Larry Tramutola\u003c/a>, a consultant to the coalition, said during a post-election debrief Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure imposes a penny-per-ounce tax on most sugar-sweetened beverages. The coalition says it studied how the American Beverage Association worked to \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_21857220/more-than-2-million-spending-richmond-soda-tax\">defeat\u003c/a> a similar sugar-sweetened-beverage tax initiative in Richmond, Calif., in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Knowing the opposition, and knowing what they were likely to do, was important,\" Tramutola says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing that most likely helped the Berkeley coalition succeed: sizable infusions of cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Heart Association and the Center for Science in the Public Interest put their \u003ca href=\"http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/former-nyc-mayor-michael-bloomberg-donates-85000-to-support-berkeleys-proposed-soda-tax/\">support\u003c/a> behind the effort. And perhaps the most notable donor: \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.org/about/?gclid=Cj0KEQiAsueiBRCT8YOM4PDElsYBEiQAaiI4IHN4E71poB4YbGV0CrTkFIhY1OqxKTAbschojrt6xwIaAqJD8P8HAQ\">Michael Bloomberg\u003c/a> — who, during his tenure as the mayor of New York City,\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/11/174037195/judge-overturns-new-york-city-ban-on-big-sugary-sodas\"> pushed for\u003c/a> limits on big, sugary drinks — stepped in during the final weeks of this election season with \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/10/27/michael-bloomberg-has-now-spent-370k-in-support-of-measure-d-other-berkeley-election-news/\">donations\u003c/a>. Reports suggest Bloomberg gave $370,000 during the course of the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bloomberg cash infusions helped pay for television ads that ran on local, San Francisco-area broadcasts during the World Series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a conference call Wednesday, Howard Wolfson, senior adviser to Michael Bloomberg, said, \"Last night was a huge defeat for Big Soda and a big victory for public health. The results will surely encourage other municipalities across the nation to pursue similar initiatives to fight obesity and diabetes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolfson also indicated that Bloomberg may be willing to support organizers in other towns or municipalities that want to rally behind a soda tax in their communities. \"We look for a strong, locally led effort,\" Wolfson explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the movement can't be led from the top down; it's got to be bottom up. So, he says, \"we stand ready to assess and assist other local efforts in the coming election cycle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following its defeat in the Berkeley soda tax battle, the American Beverage Association \u003ca href=\"http://www.ameribev.org/news-media/news-releases-statements/more/337/\">released a statement\u003c/a> on its website saying, \"People don't support taxes and bans on common grocery items, like soft drinks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the ABA says the debate should move on from taxes and bans \"onto \u003ca href=\"http://deliveringchoices.org/\">real solutions\u003c/a>.\" Leading beverage companies, the ABA says, have \"set a goal to reduce beverage calories consumed per person by 20 percent by 2025.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/89508/how-did-berkeley-pass-a-soda-tax-bloombergs-cash-didnt-hurt","authors":["byline_bayareabites_89508"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_264","bayareabites_13306","bayareabites_8770","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_1246","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_11070"],"tags":["bayareabites_13910","bayareabites_12116","bayareabites_14781","bayareabites_10800","bayareabites_511","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_89509","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_82811":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_82811","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"82811","score":null,"sort":[1401845555000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"could-a-6-cent-tax-sour-us-on-soda-and-sugary-drinks","title":"Could A 6-Cent Tax Sour Us On Soda And Sugary Drinks? ","publishDate":1401845555,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_82812\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 184px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/06/soda_can_label_custom-f16f277957c91fc3aa06c850b18a91ce30a55372.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/06/soda_can_label_custom-f16f277957c91fc3aa06c850b18a91ce30a55372-184x290.jpg\" alt=\"A mock up of a warning label for sodas and sugary drinks proposed in California by public health advocates. Image: California Center for Public Health Advocacy\" width=\"184\" height=\"290\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-82812\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mock up of a warning label for sodas and sugary drinks proposed in California by public health advocates. Image: California Center for Public Health Advocacy\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by Allison Aubrey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/03/318223640/could-a-six-cents-tax-sour-us-on-soda-and-sugary-drinks\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/3/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, sugar may be the new tobacco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many studies linking Americans' collective sweet tooth to diseases including \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/03/02/sugars-role-in-rise-of-diabetes-gets-clearer/\">type 2 diabetes\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/03/271130613/sweet-tooth-gone-bad-why-22-teaspoons-of-sugar-per-day-is-deadl\">heart disease\u003c/a> and obesity, there's a lot of talk about policies to nudge consumers to consume less sugar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://ajae.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/05/31/ajae.aau052.abstract?sid=1f3044c7-6745-4fbd-9e5b-bb46b85e6f8b\">new study\u003c/a> published in the \u003cem>American Journal of Agricultural Economics\u003c/em> concludes that a tax on sodas and other sugary beverages could be the way to go. Specifically, the authors argue that taxing by the calorie would prompt consumers to cut back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The authors calculated that a .04 cent per calorie tax — equivalent to a 6-cent tax per 12-ounce can of Coke or Pepsi — would lead consumers to consume about 5,800 fewer calories from sugary drinks per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems quite intuitive,\" says study author \u003ca href=\"http://www.rti.org/newsroom/experts.cfm?obj=99140178-5056-B100-31B9616BA3B22BCD\">Chen Zhen\u003c/a>, a food and nutrition policy research economist at the Research Triangle Institute. Taxing calories directly, he finds, would lead people to purchase lower-calorie drinks. At least, that's what his modeling shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his colleagues used supermarket sales data to understand how price fluctuations influence consumer purchases. Then they modeled how various forms of taxing would change decision making. The studied was funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, any chance of soda taxes becoming law? If past efforts are any indication, there are some pretty major hurdles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we've \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/06/146481752/taxes-and-food-stamp-restrictions-proposed-to-tame-americas-sweet-tooth\">reported\u003c/a>, a tax proposal in Massachusetts that would have extended the state's 6.5-percent sales tax to include candy and sugary drinks failed to get traction. And an effort in Florida in 2012 that would have restricted the use of food stamps to buy sugary treats and junk food failed, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The convenience store industry lobbied hard against the Florida measure. And the American Beverage Association has been a vocal opponent of measures that target sugary drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Taxes don't make people healthy,\" the ABA's Chris Gindlesperger told us when we were reporting on the debate over these efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this doesn't mean that policymakers won't try again. And, as more Americans become aware of the link between heavy sugar consumption and health risks, public health advocates say there may be more public support for such measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.calendow.org/uploadedFiles/Rls2461.pdf\">Field Poll\u003c/a> found 74 percent of California voters support efforts that would warn consumers about the potential harms of sugary drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And last week, the California Senate passed the Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Safety Warning Act, that would mandate a warning label on the front of all bottles and cans of sugary drinks sold in the state that contain 75 calories or more per 12 fluid ounces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would read:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_82813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 5712px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/06/warning-label-poster_custom-88fa86807624473ee175b181f4e573aba02a4584.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/06/warning-label-poster_custom-88fa86807624473ee175b181f4e573aba02a4584.jpg\" alt=\"Warning label mock-up. Image: California Center for Public Health Advocacy\" width=\"5712\" height=\"1410\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82813\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Warning label mock-up. Image: California Center for Public Health Advocacy\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"SB 1000 [the act] supports consumers' right to know the facts about diabetes, undiluted by beverage industry spin,\" wrote \u003ca href=\"http://www.publichealthadvocacy.org/staff.html\">Dr. Harold Goldstein\u003c/a> of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, which is a co-sponsor of the bill along with the California Medical Association, the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California and the California Black Health Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group wants consumers to understand that when excess sugar enters the bloodstream \"it overloads the pancreas and causes the liver to store the sugar as fat.\" Over time, this can increase the risk of fatty liver disease and type 2 diabetes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policymakers in the U.S. are not alone in their efforts to warn consumers about sugar. \"France, Hungary, Finland and Mexico are all targeting sugar through various interventions,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.liv.ac.uk/psychology-health-and-society/staff/simon-capewell/\">Simon Capewell\u003c/a>, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Liverpool, tells us by email. Capewell authored a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g3428\">commentary\u003c/a> in the \u003cem>British Medical Journal\u003c/em> in which he argued in favor of warning labels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many other potentially harmful products already carry effective health warnings,\" like insecticides and cigarettes, Capewell wrote. \"Cigarettes have gone from being socially acceptable to quite unacceptable after warning labels were implemented.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A new study argues that taxing sodas and sugary drinks by the calorie would spur consumers to cut back. A 6-cent tax per 12-ounce can would lead to 5,800 fewer calories consumed per year, it found.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1401845555,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":695},"headData":{"title":"Could A 6-Cent Tax Sour Us On Soda And Sugary Drinks? | KQED","description":"A new study argues that taxing sodas and sugary drinks by the calorie would spur consumers to cut back. A 6-cent tax per 12-ounce can would lead to 5,800 fewer calories consumed per year, it found.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Could A 6-Cent Tax Sour Us On Soda And Sugary Drinks? 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","nprByline":"Allison Aubrey","nprStoryId":"318223640","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=318223640&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/03/318223640/could-a-six-cents-tax-sour-us-on-soda-and-sugary-drinks?ft=3&f=318223640","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 03 Jun 2014 13:55:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 03 Jun 2014 13:23:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 03 Jun 2014 13:55:08 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/82811/could-a-6-cent-tax-sour-us-on-soda-and-sugary-drinks","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_82812\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 184px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/06/soda_can_label_custom-f16f277957c91fc3aa06c850b18a91ce30a55372.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/06/soda_can_label_custom-f16f277957c91fc3aa06c850b18a91ce30a55372-184x290.jpg\" alt=\"A mock up of a warning label for sodas and sugary drinks proposed in California by public health advocates. Image: California Center for Public Health Advocacy\" width=\"184\" height=\"290\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-82812\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mock up of a warning label for sodas and sugary drinks proposed in California by public health advocates. Image: California Center for Public Health Advocacy\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by Allison Aubrey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/03/318223640/could-a-six-cents-tax-sour-us-on-soda-and-sugary-drinks\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/3/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, sugar may be the new tobacco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many studies linking Americans' collective sweet tooth to diseases including \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/03/02/sugars-role-in-rise-of-diabetes-gets-clearer/\">type 2 diabetes\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/03/271130613/sweet-tooth-gone-bad-why-22-teaspoons-of-sugar-per-day-is-deadl\">heart disease\u003c/a> and obesity, there's a lot of talk about policies to nudge consumers to consume less sugar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://ajae.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/05/31/ajae.aau052.abstract?sid=1f3044c7-6745-4fbd-9e5b-bb46b85e6f8b\">new study\u003c/a> published in the \u003cem>American Journal of Agricultural Economics\u003c/em> concludes that a tax on sodas and other sugary beverages could be the way to go. Specifically, the authors argue that taxing by the calorie would prompt consumers to cut back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The authors calculated that a .04 cent per calorie tax — equivalent to a 6-cent tax per 12-ounce can of Coke or Pepsi — would lead consumers to consume about 5,800 fewer calories from sugary drinks per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems quite intuitive,\" says study author \u003ca href=\"http://www.rti.org/newsroom/experts.cfm?obj=99140178-5056-B100-31B9616BA3B22BCD\">Chen Zhen\u003c/a>, a food and nutrition policy research economist at the Research Triangle Institute. Taxing calories directly, he finds, would lead people to purchase lower-calorie drinks. At least, that's what his modeling shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his colleagues used supermarket sales data to understand how price fluctuations influence consumer purchases. Then they modeled how various forms of taxing would change decision making. The studied was funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, any chance of soda taxes becoming law? If past efforts are any indication, there are some pretty major hurdles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we've \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/06/146481752/taxes-and-food-stamp-restrictions-proposed-to-tame-americas-sweet-tooth\">reported\u003c/a>, a tax proposal in Massachusetts that would have extended the state's 6.5-percent sales tax to include candy and sugary drinks failed to get traction. And an effort in Florida in 2012 that would have restricted the use of food stamps to buy sugary treats and junk food failed, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The convenience store industry lobbied hard against the Florida measure. And the American Beverage Association has been a vocal opponent of measures that target sugary drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Taxes don't make people healthy,\" the ABA's Chris Gindlesperger told us when we were reporting on the debate over these efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this doesn't mean that policymakers won't try again. And, as more Americans become aware of the link between heavy sugar consumption and health risks, public health advocates say there may be more public support for such measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.calendow.org/uploadedFiles/Rls2461.pdf\">Field Poll\u003c/a> found 74 percent of California voters support efforts that would warn consumers about the potential harms of sugary drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And last week, the California Senate passed the Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Safety Warning Act, that would mandate a warning label on the front of all bottles and cans of sugary drinks sold in the state that contain 75 calories or more per 12 fluid ounces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would read:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_82813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 5712px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/06/warning-label-poster_custom-88fa86807624473ee175b181f4e573aba02a4584.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/06/warning-label-poster_custom-88fa86807624473ee175b181f4e573aba02a4584.jpg\" alt=\"Warning label mock-up. Image: California Center for Public Health Advocacy\" width=\"5712\" height=\"1410\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82813\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Warning label mock-up. Image: California Center for Public Health Advocacy\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"SB 1000 [the act] supports consumers' right to know the facts about diabetes, undiluted by beverage industry spin,\" wrote \u003ca href=\"http://www.publichealthadvocacy.org/staff.html\">Dr. Harold Goldstein\u003c/a> of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, which is a co-sponsor of the bill along with the California Medical Association, the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California and the California Black Health Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group wants consumers to understand that when excess sugar enters the bloodstream \"it overloads the pancreas and causes the liver to store the sugar as fat.\" Over time, this can increase the risk of fatty liver disease and type 2 diabetes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policymakers in the U.S. are not alone in their efforts to warn consumers about sugar. \"France, Hungary, Finland and Mexico are all targeting sugar through various interventions,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.liv.ac.uk/psychology-health-and-society/staff/simon-capewell/\">Simon Capewell\u003c/a>, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Liverpool, tells us by email. Capewell authored a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g3428\">commentary\u003c/a> in the \u003cem>British Medical Journal\u003c/em> in which he argued in favor of warning labels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many other potentially harmful products already carry effective health warnings,\" like insecticides and cigarettes, Capewell wrote. \"Cigarettes have gone from being socially acceptable to quite unacceptable after warning labels were implemented.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/82811/could-a-6-cent-tax-sour-us-on-soda-and-sugary-drinks","authors":["byline_bayareabites_82811"],"categories":["bayareabites_13306","bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_1246","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_11070"],"tags":["bayareabites_14781","bayareabites_10800","bayareabites_511","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_82812","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_66884":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_66884","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"66884","score":null,"sort":[1375228802000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"despite-legal-blow-new-york-to-keep-up-sugary-drink-fight","title":"Despite Legal Blow, New York To Keep Up Sugary Drink Fight","publishDate":1375228802,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_66894\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/07/subway-soda.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/07/subway-soda.jpg\" alt=\"On Tuesday, a state appeals court called New York City's ban on supersized soda unconstitutional. Photo: Allison Joyce/Getty Images News\" width=\"1120\" height=\"840\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66894\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Tuesday, a state appeals court called New York City's ban on supersized soda unconstitutional. Photo: Allison Joyce/Getty Images News\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/30/207026680/despite-legal-blow-new-york-to-keep-up-sugary-drink-fight\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (7/30/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state appeals court on Tuesday rejected New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's attempt to limit the size of sugary beverages sold in his city. But in a statement, Bloomberg and the city's top lawyer, Michael Cardozo, called the decision a \"temporary setback\" and vowed to appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Board of Health overstepped the boundaries of its lawfully delegated authority when it promulgated the portion cap rule to curtail the consumption of soda drinks,\" Justice Dianne T. Renwick wrote in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nycourts.gov/reporter/3dseries/2013/2013_05505.htm\">appeals court ruling\u003c/a>. \"It therefore violated the state principle of separation of powers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision was a blow for the city's Board of Health, which had met significant opposition from the food and beverage industry for its move to change unhealthful food habits through portion-size regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lower court judge \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/11/174037195/judge-overturns-new-york-city-ban-on-big-sugary-sodas\">overturned\u003c/a> the ban in March on the grounds that Bloomberg's regulations of the sale of the drinks at restaurants, movie theaters and other food service establishments were \"arbitrary and capricious.\" City officials immediately appealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2012, Bloomberg introduced the limits, which would have required food service establishments to cap sugary beverages at 16 ounces. Though the industry called the regulations flawed, some researchers who study the effect of sugar and sugary beverages on health \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/06/146481752/taxes-and-food-stamp-restrictions-proposed-to-tame-americas-sweet-tooth\">say\u003c/a> the government must intervene if sugar consumption is to be cut in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of adults in New York City are obese or overweight, Dr. Thomas Farley, the city's health commissioner, has said. He blames sweetened drinks for rising obesity rates. Harvard's Walter Willett concurs. As he \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/01/16/169504113/cutting-sugar-consumption-helps-keep-extra-weight-off\">told\u003c/a> The Salt in January, \"It's impossible to eat 17 teaspoons of sugar, but it's very easy to drink at 20-ounce soda with 17 teaspoons of sugar.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they wait for the next appeals process to be resolved, major soda drinkers might consider switching to diet soda. As Allison Aubrey \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/10/22/163260960/swapping-out-sugary-soda-for-diet-drinks-may-help-tip-the-scale-in-your-favor\">reported\u003c/a>, two recent studies show that swapping Coke for Diet Coke may make a difference for people trying to manage their weight. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"An appeals court ruled Tuesday that the ban on big, sugary drinks was unconstitutional. The decision is a blow for the city's Board of Health, which has argued that regulation is an effective means of changing unhealthful behaviors. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his legal team say they will appeal.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1375228802,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":378},"headData":{"title":"Despite Legal Blow, New York To Keep Up Sugary Drink Fight | KQED","description":"An appeals court ruled Tuesday that the ban on big, sugary drinks was unconstitutional. The decision is a blow for the city's Board of Health, which has argued that regulation is an effective means of changing unhealthful behaviors. 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Photo: Allison Joyce/Getty Images News\" width=\"1120\" height=\"840\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66894\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Tuesday, a state appeals court called New York City's ban on supersized soda unconstitutional. Photo: Allison Joyce/Getty Images News\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/30/207026680/despite-legal-blow-new-york-to-keep-up-sugary-drink-fight\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (7/30/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state appeals court on Tuesday rejected New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's attempt to limit the size of sugary beverages sold in his city. But in a statement, Bloomberg and the city's top lawyer, Michael Cardozo, called the decision a \"temporary setback\" and vowed to appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Board of Health overstepped the boundaries of its lawfully delegated authority when it promulgated the portion cap rule to curtail the consumption of soda drinks,\" Justice Dianne T. 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Though the industry called the regulations flawed, some researchers who study the effect of sugar and sugary beverages on health \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/06/146481752/taxes-and-food-stamp-restrictions-proposed-to-tame-americas-sweet-tooth\">say\u003c/a> the government must intervene if sugar consumption is to be cut in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of adults in New York City are obese or overweight, Dr. Thomas Farley, the city's health commissioner, has said. He blames sweetened drinks for rising obesity rates. Harvard's Walter Willett concurs. As he \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/01/16/169504113/cutting-sugar-consumption-helps-keep-extra-weight-off\">told\u003c/a> The Salt in January, \"It's impossible to eat 17 teaspoons of sugar, but it's very easy to drink at 20-ounce soda with 17 teaspoons of sugar.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they wait for the next appeals process to be resolved, major soda drinkers might consider switching to diet soda. As Allison Aubrey \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/10/22/163260960/swapping-out-sugary-soda-for-diet-drinks-may-help-tip-the-scale-in-your-favor\">reported\u003c/a>, two recent studies show that swapping Coke for Diet Coke may make a difference for people trying to manage their weight. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/66884/despite-legal-blow-new-york-to-keep-up-sugary-drink-fight","authors":["byline_bayareabites_66884"],"categories":["bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_11375","bayareabites_12116","bayareabites_2569","bayareabites_14781","bayareabites_10800","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_66893","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_58333":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_58333","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"58333","score":null,"sort":[1363115897000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"soda-wars-backlash-mississippi-passes-anti-bloomberg-bill","title":"Soda Wars Backlash: Mississippi Passes 'Anti-Bloomberg' Bill","publishDate":1363115897,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58337\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 667px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/mississippi_soda.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/mississippi_soda.jpg\" alt=\"A Coca-Cola mural in Vicksburg, Miss., where the soda was first bottled in 1894. Mississippi's governor is expected to sign a bill that would prevent the regulation of soda portion sizes by counties or towns. Photo: pratt/via Flickr\" width=\"667\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58337\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Coca-Cola mural in Vicksburg, Miss., where the soda was first bottled in 1894. Mississippi's governor is expected to sign a bill that would prevent the regulation of soda portion sizes by counties or towns. Photo: pratt/via Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story on\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/12/174048623/mississippi-passes-anti-bloomberg-bill\">Morning Edition:\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/03/20130312_me_15.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by Jeffrey Hess, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/12/174048623/mississippi-passes-anti-bloomberg-bill\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (3/12/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Mike and his public health edicts are having a rough ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, a state judge in Manhattan \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/11/174037195/judge-overturns-new-york-city-ban-on-big-sugary-sodas\">struck down\u003c/a> New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's rule capping soda sizes. And lawmakers in Mississippi are taking the backlash against government regulation on food marketing one step further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2013/pdf/history/SB/SB2687.xml\">bill\u003c/a> now on the governor's desk would bar counties and towns from enacting rules that require calorie counts to be posted, that cap portion sizes, or that keep toys out of kids' meals. \"The Anti-Bloomberg Bill\" garnered wide bipartisan support in both chambers of the legislature in a state where \u003ca href=\"http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-08-13/obesity-rates-states/57031440/1\">one in three adults is obese\u003c/a>, the highest rate in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill is expected to be signed by Gov. Phil Bryant, a Republican. It was the subject of intense lobbying by groups including the restaurant association, the small business and beverage group, and the chicken farmers' lobby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Cashion, executive director the Mississippi Hospitality and Restaurant \u003ca href=\"http://www.msra.org\">Association\u003c/a>, says the bill is a direct reaction to Bloomberg-style government intervention in public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you look at how menus have changed, whether it be in fast food or family dining, you are seeing more and more healthy options,\" Cashion says. \"Not because of legislative mandates or regulatory mandates, but because of consumer demand. Our industry has always been one to respond to the marketplace.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Gregory Holloway, a Democrat, ushered the popular bill through the state House. He says the goal is to create consistency in nutrition laws across the state. \"We don't want local municipalities experimenting with labeling of foods and any organic agenda. We want that authority to rest with the legislature,\" Holloway says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the measure does have detractors in Mississippi: local politicians who say it steps on an ideal Mississippians hold dear — the ability to govern themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://cityofhernando.org/administrative-services/mayor-of-hernando/\">Chip Johnson\u003c/a>, mayor of Hernando, Miss., near the Tennessee border, is no fan of a soda ban, but he doesn't like the anti-Bloomberg bill, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernando has built biking and walking paths all over town, and has received national attention for the work. Johnson bristles at the legislature's efforts to dictate what he can do in pursuit of a healthier community, including restricting the ability to put nutritional information on menus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know what? If little Alligator, Miss., wanted to do that, that's up to the people that live there. It is not up to the state to tell the people at the local level what to do,\" Johnson says. \"They're just using this to mask what the bill is really about, which is about taking away home rule.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson says he resents that the measure even puts some restrictions on a town's ability to zone where a restaurant can go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the bill passed the state Senate, 50-1, and the state House, 92-26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece is part of a partnership of NPR, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, and Kaiser Health News.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nCopyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A bill now on the governor's desk would bar Mississippi counties and towns from enacting rules that require calorie counts to be posted, that cap portion sizes, or that keep toys out of kids' meals.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1363115897,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":574},"headData":{"title":"Soda Wars Backlash: Mississippi Passes 'Anti-Bloomberg' Bill | KQED","description":"A bill now on the governor's desk would bar Mississippi counties and towns from enacting rules that require calorie counts to be posted, that cap portion sizes, or that keep toys out of kids' meals.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Soda Wars Backlash: Mississippi Passes 'Anti-Bloomberg' Bill","datePublished":"2013-03-12T19:18:17.000Z","dateModified":"2013-03-12T19:18:17.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"58333 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=58333","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/03/12/soda-wars-backlash-mississippi-passes-anti-bloomberg-bill/","disqusTitle":"Soda Wars Backlash: Mississippi Passes 'Anti-Bloomberg' Bill","nprByline":"Jeffrey Hess","nprStoryId":"174048623","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=174048623&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/12/174048623/mississippi-passes-anti-bloomberg-bill?ft=3&f=174048623","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:21:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:00:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:21:36 -0400","nprAudio":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/03/20130312_me_15.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1128&ft=3&f=174048623","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1174080429-45693a.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1128&ft=3&f=174048623","path":"/bayareabites/58333/soda-wars-backlash-mississippi-passes-anti-bloomberg-bill","audioUrl":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/03/20130312_me_15.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1128&ft=3&f=174048623","audioDuration":null,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58337\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 667px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/mississippi_soda.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/mississippi_soda.jpg\" alt=\"A Coca-Cola mural in Vicksburg, Miss., where the soda was first bottled in 1894. 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Photo: pratt/via Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story on\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/12/174048623/mississippi-passes-anti-bloomberg-bill\">Morning Edition:\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/03/20130312_me_15.mp3","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by Jeffrey Hess, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/12/174048623/mississippi-passes-anti-bloomberg-bill\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (3/12/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Mike and his public health edicts are having a rough ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, a state judge in Manhattan \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/11/174037195/judge-overturns-new-york-city-ban-on-big-sugary-sodas\">struck down\u003c/a> New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's rule capping soda sizes. And lawmakers in Mississippi are taking the backlash against government regulation on food marketing one step further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2013/pdf/history/SB/SB2687.xml\">bill\u003c/a> now on the governor's desk would bar counties and towns from enacting rules that require calorie counts to be posted, that cap portion sizes, or that keep toys out of kids' meals. \"The Anti-Bloomberg Bill\" garnered wide bipartisan support in both chambers of the legislature in a state where \u003ca href=\"http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-08-13/obesity-rates-states/57031440/1\">one in three adults is obese\u003c/a>, the highest rate in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill is expected to be signed by Gov. Phil Bryant, a Republican. It was the subject of intense lobbying by groups including the restaurant association, the small business and beverage group, and the chicken farmers' lobby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Cashion, executive director the Mississippi Hospitality and Restaurant \u003ca href=\"http://www.msra.org\">Association\u003c/a>, says the bill is a direct reaction to Bloomberg-style government intervention in public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you look at how menus have changed, whether it be in fast food or family dining, you are seeing more and more healthy options,\" Cashion says. \"Not because of legislative mandates or regulatory mandates, but because of consumer demand. Our industry has always been one to respond to the marketplace.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Gregory Holloway, a Democrat, ushered the popular bill through the state House. He says the goal is to create consistency in nutrition laws across the state. \"We don't want local municipalities experimenting with labeling of foods and any organic agenda. We want that authority to rest with the legislature,\" Holloway says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the measure does have detractors in Mississippi: local politicians who say it steps on an ideal Mississippians hold dear — the ability to govern themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://cityofhernando.org/administrative-services/mayor-of-hernando/\">Chip Johnson\u003c/a>, mayor of Hernando, Miss., near the Tennessee border, is no fan of a soda ban, but he doesn't like the anti-Bloomberg bill, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernando has built biking and walking paths all over town, and has received national attention for the work. Johnson bristles at the legislature's efforts to dictate what he can do in pursuit of a healthier community, including restricting the ability to put nutritional information on menus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know what? If little Alligator, Miss., wanted to do that, that's up to the people that live there. It is not up to the state to tell the people at the local level what to do,\" Johnson says. \"They're just using this to mask what the bill is really about, which is about taking away home rule.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson says he resents that the measure even puts some restrictions on a town's ability to zone where a restaurant can go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the bill passed the state Senate, 50-1, and the state House, 92-26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece is part of a partnership of NPR, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, and Kaiser Health News.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nCopyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/58333/soda-wars-backlash-mississippi-passes-anti-bloomberg-bill","authors":["byline_bayareabites_58333"],"categories":["bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_11375","bayareabites_11380","bayareabites_2613","bayareabites_14781","bayareabites_10800","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_58337","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_58314":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_58314","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"58314","score":null,"sort":[1363046098000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"judge-overturns-new-york-city-ban-on-big-sugary-sodas","title":"Judge Overturns New York City Ban On Big Sugary Sodas","publishDate":1363046098,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/soda.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/soda-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-large wp-image-58318\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Maria Godoy and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/2100208/allison-aubrey\">Allison Aubrey\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/11/174037195/judge-overturns-new-york-city-ban-on-big-sugary-sodas\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (3/11/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A New York state judge has knocked down New York City's landmark new ban on big, sugary drinks, just one day before it was set to take effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling them \"arbitrary and capricious,\" state Supreme Court Justice Milton Tingling on Monday invalidated regulations that would have banned New York City restaurants, movie theaters and other food service establishments from serving sugary drinks in sizes bigger than 16 ounces. The ban would have covered not just sodas but a wide array of other sugar-sweetened drinks, from smoothies to coffee. (Here's a \u003ca href=\"http://www.wnyc.org/media/resources/2013/Mar/11/SugaryDrinks.pdf\">PDF of the ruling\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled the regulations last May, part of an effort to curb runaway obesity rates by encouraging people to drink less sugar-laden beverages. The New York City Board of Health approved the measure last September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tingling found that the board of health had overstepped the authority it was granted to fulfill its mission: protecting against and preventing diseases. That authority, the judge said, does not include the power to \"limit or ban a legal item under the guise of 'controlling chronic disease.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's more, Tingling noted, the regulations wouldn't have applied equally across eating establishments. For example, sugary milk products would have been exempt, as would 7-Eleven and other convenience stores, and supermarkets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those gaps in the law would have seriously limited its effectiveness, says David Just of Cornell University's \u003ca href=\"http://ben.dyson.cornell.edu/\">Center\u003c/a> for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs. He says the ban would not likely have made much of an impact on overall calorie intake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The overwhelming majority of soda is bought in grocery stores,\" he told The Salt earlier Monday. He says the ban would have targeted the occasional consumer rather than the regular consumer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some advocates of tougher policies say the judge's ruling opens the door to new strategies — such as, perhaps, a sugar-sweetened \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/06/146481752/taxes-and-food-stamp-restrictions-proposed-to-tame-americas-sweet-tooth\">beverage tax\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The biggest problem with this measure was that it could have jeopardized the ability to introduce more comprehensive — and potentially more effective — obesity prevention policies,\" \u003ca href=\"http://psychandneuro.duke.edu/people?subpage=profile&Gurl=/aas/pn&Uil=gary\">Gary Bennett\u003c/a>, an expert on obesity, weight loss and physical activity at Duke University, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry groups that sued to have the ban overturned expressed relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The court ruling provides a sigh of relief to New Yorkers and thousands of small businesses in New York City that would have been harmed by this arbitrary and unpopular ban,\" a spokesperson for the American Beverage Association tells The Salt in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With this ruling behind us, we look forward to collaborating with city leaders on solutions that will have a meaningful and lasting impact on the people of New York City.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials say they plan to appeal the ruling, as our colleagues at \u003ca href=\"http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2013/mar/11/large-sugary-drink-ban-looms-city-retailers/\">WNYC report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This measure is part of the city's multipronged effort to combat the growing obesity epidemic,\" Michael Cardozo, corporate counsel for the city's law department, said in a statement. \"We believe the Board of Health has the legal authority — and responsibility — to tackle its leading causes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in Mississippi, lawmakers are taking things one step further than Judge Tingling did in New York. A bill on the governor's desk would keep counties and towns from enacting rules governing the size of big sodas and other restrictions on food makers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"%20%20http:/billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2013/pdf/history/SB/SB2687.xml\">bill\u003c/a> — nicknamed the \"Anti-Bloomberg Bill\" — is popular with state lawmakers, despite the fact that one out of every three Mississippians is obese.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nCopyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A state Supreme Court justice said the regulations overstepped the authority granted to the New York City Board of Health. 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He says the ban would not likely have made much of an impact on overall calorie intake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The overwhelming majority of soda is bought in grocery stores,\" he told The Salt earlier Monday. He says the ban would have targeted the occasional consumer rather than the regular consumer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some advocates of tougher policies say the judge's ruling opens the door to new strategies — such as, perhaps, a sugar-sweetened \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/06/146481752/taxes-and-food-stamp-restrictions-proposed-to-tame-americas-sweet-tooth\">beverage tax\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The biggest problem with this measure was that it could have jeopardized the ability to introduce more comprehensive — and potentially more effective — obesity prevention policies,\" \u003ca href=\"http://psychandneuro.duke.edu/people?subpage=profile&Gurl=/aas/pn&Uil=gary\">Gary Bennett\u003c/a>, an expert on obesity, weight loss and physical activity at Duke University, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry groups that sued to have the ban overturned expressed relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The court ruling provides a sigh of relief to New Yorkers and thousands of small businesses in New York City that would have been harmed by this arbitrary and unpopular ban,\" a spokesperson for the American Beverage Association tells The Salt in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With this ruling behind us, we look forward to collaborating with city leaders on solutions that will have a meaningful and lasting impact on the people of New York City.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials say they plan to appeal the ruling, as our colleagues at \u003ca href=\"http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2013/mar/11/large-sugary-drink-ban-looms-city-retailers/\">WNYC report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This measure is part of the city's multipronged effort to combat the growing obesity epidemic,\" Michael Cardozo, corporate counsel for the city's law department, said in a statement. \"We believe the Board of Health has the legal authority — and responsibility — to tackle its leading causes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in Mississippi, lawmakers are taking things one step further than Judge Tingling did in New York. 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And now two California cities, Richmond and El Monte, are asking voters to approve taxes on those drinks. If voters say yes, they could be the first in the nation to tax sodas, energy drinks and other sugary beverages. 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