Sugar tax debate: The case for government action
OPINION: Sugar is the new nicotine and food manufacturers must be incentivised to reduce its use.
Tony Falkenstein
Wed, 06 Apr 2016
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There is one thing that Oliver Hartwich and I agree on in his article “The great British sugar scam” and that is that a tax on soft drinks is not an effective measure of reducing obesity.
But there we stop. We know that refined sugar is bad for us – it contains a whole lot of calories with no
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Tony Falkenstein
Wed, 06 Apr 2016
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