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The Association Of A Sweetened Beverage Tax With Changes In Beverage Prices And Purchases At Independent Stores
Health affairs (Millwood, Va.), v 39(7), pp 1130-1139
01 Jul 2020
PMID: 32634353
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Abstract
In January 2017 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, implemented an excise tax of 1.5 cents per ounce on beverages sweetened with sugar or artificial sweeteners. Small independent stores are an important yet understudied setting. They are visited frequently in urban and low-income areas, and sugary beverages are among the most commonly purchased items in them. We compared changes in beverage prices and purchases before and twelve months after tax implementation at small independent stores in Philadelphia and an untaxed control city, Baltimore, Maryland. Our sample included 134 stores with price data and 4,584 customer purchases. Compared with Baltimore, Philadelphia experienced significantly greater increases in the price of taxed beverages (1.81 cents per ounce, or 120.4 percent of the tax) and significantly larger declines in the volume of taxed beverages sold (5.76 ounces, or 38.9 percent) after tax implementation. Beverage excise taxes may be an effective policy tool for decreasing the purchase of sweetened drinks in small independent stores, particularly among populations at higher risk for sugar-sweetened beverage consumption.
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- Title
- The Association Of A Sweetened Beverage Tax With Changes In Beverage Prices And Purchases At Independent Stores
- Creators
- Sara N. Bleich - San Antonio River AuthorityHannah G. Lawman - Philadelphia Department of Public HealthMichael T. LeVasseur - Drexel UniversityJiali Yan - University of PennsylvaniaNandita Mitra - University of PennsylvaniaCaitlin M. Lowery - BloombergAna Peterhans - University of PennsylvaniaSophia Hua - University of PennsylvaniaLaura A. Gibson - University of PennsylvaniaChristina A. Roberto - University of Pennsylvania
- Publication Details
- Health affairs (Millwood, Va.), v 39(7), pp 1130-1139
- Publisher
- Project Hope
- Number of pages
- 10
- Grant note
- Bloomberg Philanthropies
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000557071400005
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85087672938
- Other Identifier
- 991019168548204721
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