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What is Taxing Sugary Beverages in Mexico about?
1) Sugary beverages are an important contributing factor to obesity in Mexico. 2) The Secretaría de Salud is planning to implement a strategy to control obesity and diabetes that includes considering a tax on sugary beverages. 3) However, simply taxing sugary beverages may not be effective in reducing consumption and obesity as assumed, as people may spend less in other areas to continue purchasing sugary drinks, which are ingrained in the culture and everyday budgets of many lower-income Mexicans.
- Author
- Carmen Maria Cordova
- Language
- EN