The Association Of A Sweetened Beverage Tax With Changes In Beverage Prices And Purchases At Independent Stores.

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 si

SUBMITTER: Bleich SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12265839 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature