Sugar-sweetened beverage taxes: Lessons to date and the future of taxation

Barry M. Popkin; Shu Wen Ng

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1003412

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Sugar-sweetened beverage taxes: Lessons to date and the future of taxation

Barry M. Popkin ,

* E-mail: popkin@unc.edu

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Carolina Population Center, The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9495-9324

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Shu Wen Ng

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Carolina Population Center, The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0582-110X

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Sugar-sweetened beverage taxes: Lessons to date and the future of taxation

Barry M. Popkin,
Shu Wen Ng

Published: January 7, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003412

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