date:May 18, 2012
per cent, and suggest that extending VAT (at 17.5 per cent) to unhealthy foods in the UK could cut up to 2,700 heart disease deaths a year, he added.
Opinion polls from the US also put support for tax on sugary drinks at between 37 per cent and 72 per cent, particularly when the health benefits of the tax are emphasised.
The research also points out that understanding the overall effect on health is complicated, and that policy makers need to be wary of negative effects, like changes in othe