About the Authors

Sanjay Basu

basus@stanford.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Kristine Madsen

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: SB receives a stipend as a specialty consulting editor for PLOS Medicine and serves on the journal's editorial board; has previously coauthored a manuscript with Barry Popkin, a coauthor of 1 of the 2 studies discussed in the commentary; has served on the Scientific Advisory Council for Healthy Food America, which has advocated for reduced sugar consumption; and has served on the Obesity and Diabetes Working Group of the New York Academy of Sciences, which has examined data on policy effects of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption. KM coauthored two research studies of Berkeley’s sugar-sweetened beverage tax, as cited in the article.