Public responses to proposals for a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages: A thematic analysis of online reader comments posted on major UK news websites

• Molly Thomas-Meyer,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Public Health Department, Essex County Council, Chelmsford, United Kingdom

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• Oliver Mytton,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Jean Adams

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jma79@medschl.cam.ac.uk

  Affiliation Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5733-7830

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