Evaluation of Changes in Prices and Purchases Following Implementation of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes Across the US.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes are promoted as key policies to reduce cardiometabolic diseases and other conditions, but comprehensive analyses of SSB taxes in the US have been difficult because of the absence of sufficiently large data samples and methods limitations.

Objective

To estimate changes in SSB prices and purchases following SSB taxes in 5 large US cities.

Design, setting, and participants

In this cross-sectional study with an augmented synthetic control analysis, changes in prices and purchases of SSBs were estimated following SSB tax implementation in Boulder, Colorado; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Oakland, California; Seattle, Washington; and San Francisco, California. Changes in SSB prices (in US dollars) and purchases (volume in ounces)

SUBMITTER: Kaplan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10770775 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature