I wrote an op-ed for The Press this week in response to some rather gratuitous coverage over the weekend on the public health ‘experts’ in favour of a sugar tax. I concluded:
There is much to take issue with in the campaign for a sugar tax, and not much convincing evidence that it will do what advocates say it will.
It is, of course, a question of ideology over whether it is the government’s job to address obesity and intervene in people’s freedom to make decisions over how they live their lives. But beyond that, there is a bigger question over whether a sugar tax will even achieve the public health goals it was designed to address.
If the sugar tax advocates really do believe that “merchants of doubt” are the most threatening bogeymen thwarting their laudable goal, surely they should have one countervailing weapon up their sleeve: proof.
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