February 28, 2019
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Berkeley's efforts suggest soda taxes so cut soda sales

California North America

Food / Beverage

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 were being sold while consumption of water rose 29 percent, the researchers found.

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