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Sugar Sweetened Drinks Taxation: Behavioural Unknowns and Public Acceptability - Noelle Cotter
1. Sugar Sweetened Drinks Taxation:
Behavioural Unknowns and Public
Acceptability
Dr. Noëlle Cotter
Public Health Development Officer (Policy)
Institute of Public Health in Ireland
noelle.cotter@publichealth.ie
2. Overview
• Policy background & context
• Why sugar sweetened drinks?
• What is the evidence?
• Consumer reactions & responses
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4. Why sugar-sweetened drinks?
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• No nutritional value
• ‘Liquid calories’
• Links with overweight and obesity?
• No suggestion this is a silver bullet
5. What is known about public acceptability?
• Evidence from the United States
• Evidence from the Netherlands
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• Evidence from England
• Evidence from Australia
• Evidence from Ireland
6. Conclusion
• Economically valuable
• Industry response
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• Ability to oppose
• Consumer response
• Focus on OW/obesity
• Costs to taxpayer
• Ring-fencing
7. Institute of Public Health in Ireland
Dr. Noëlle Cotter
Public Health Development Officer (Policy)
noelle.cotter@publichealth.ie
www.publichealth.ie