> It'll be like the sugar tax in Norway. Do you really think people are buying less sugar over here because of it? Get real! I can't speak for Norway, but in t

> It'll be like the sugar tax in Norway. Do you really think people are buying less sugar over here because of it? Get real! I can't speak for Norway, but in the UK the sugar tax has had a huge impact - a _majority_ of soft drink manufacturers have significantly reduced sugar in their products, to avoid them becoming unaffordable, and it's had a very noticeable effect. The UK tax is still pretty new so it's difficult to get hard numbers on that, but sugar taxes in general are fairly well studied and have been very effective worldwide. https://www.nature.com/articles/sj.bdj.2018.603 https://www.nature.com/articles/sj.bdj.2018.603 has a good summary, some highlights: * "Overall 21.6% decrease in the monthly purchased volume of the higher taxed, sugary soft drinks" * "People living in Philadelphia were 40% less likely to report consuming sugary drinks every day after the tax policy" * "Mexico's 10% tax on sugar-sweetened beverages implemented in January 2014 is said to have led to a 5.5% drop in sugary drinks purchases by the end of that year and a further 9.7% fall in sales in 2015, yielding an average reduction of 7.6% over the study two-year period"