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Sin tax

In the News . . .

• Hungary Tries a Dash of Taxes to Promote Healthier Eating Habits -- The New York Times (02 March 2013)
  
  
• Tax fizzy drinks and ban junk food ads, say doctors -- BBCNews (17 February 2013)
  
  
• Call for soft-drink sugar tax -- BBCNews (28 January 2013)
  
  
• Taxing junk food could improve diets, review finds -- Caroline Scott-Thomas, FOODNavigator (13 December 2012)

• Danish government considers abandoning fat, sugar tax -- Food Navigator (11 July 2012)
  
  
• Fat taxes 'could save thousands' -- BBCNews (11 July 2007)
  
  
• Fat tax should be part of policy measures on diets: Study -- By Jess Halliday, FOODNavigator (21 January 2011)
  
  
• FDA Defends industry agains fat tax for chocolate -- Sarah Hills, FOODNavigator (12 March 2009)
  
  
• GPs vote against 'chocolate tax' -- BBCNews (12 March 2009)
  
  
• Should government use tax policy to improve eating habits? ... -- Eric Ringham, MPRNews (17 August 2011)
  
  
• Soda tax Could Threaten Irish economic recovery, body warns -- Ben Bouckley, Beveragedaily.com (29 September 2011)
  
  
• Tax food makers' caloric sweetener use to reduce consumption, study suggests -- FoodNavigator-USA (6 December 2001)