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Soda Tax, An Idea That’s Bubbling All Over

Everyone is excited about soda taxes, except for the soda companies and me. Kelly Brownell, a longtime obesity researcher at Yale, and Thomas Frieden, the New York City health commissioner wrote a persuasive argument (pdf) for the imposition of soda taxes in a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that has [...]

May 22, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Health, Politics, Science & Technology  2 Comments