Monthly Archive: May, 2019

Philadelphia’s sweetened drink sales drop 38 percent after beverage tax | Penn Today

Philadelphia’s sweetened drink sales drop 38 percent after beverage tax | Penn Today One year after Philadelphia passed its beverage tax, sales of sugary and artificially sweetened beverages dropped by 38 percent in chain food retailers, according to Penn Medicineresearchers who conducted one of the largest studies examining the impacts of a beverage tax. The results, published in JAMA, translate...