02.23.19
Berkeley’s Efforts Suggest Soda Taxes Do Cut Soda Sales
FRIDAY, Feb. 22, 2019 — Tax it, and fewer folks will buy it. So it goes with sugar-sweetened drinks, new research suggests. The California city of Berkeley introduced the nation’s first soda tax in 2014, and within months people were buying 21 percent fewer sugary drinks. Three years later, 52 percent fewer of these drinks
