Dirty Tricks and Data: The Great Soda Wars, Part 2

Over the past five years, more than forty cities and countries
around the world have passed a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages.
These soda taxes are designed to improve public health—but do they?
Or have all the doom-and-gloom predictions of the soda industry
come true instead? Researchers have been crunching the data, and
this episode we have the scoop: do soda taxes work? We’ve also got
the story of how the soda industry is fighting back, with dirty
tricks in Colombia and blackmail in California. Finally, are soda
taxes even the best intervention for improving public health? We
have brand-new results from a radical, world-first experiment in
Chile. Listen in now as we reach the epic finale of the great soda
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