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The Association Of A Sweetened Beverage Tax With Changes In Beverage Prices And Purchases At Independent Stores.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2020 07; 39(7):1130-1139.HA

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 significantly larger declines in the volume of taxed beverages sold (5.76 ounces, or 38.9 percent) after tax implementation. Beverage excise taxes may be an effective policy tool for decreasing the purchase of sweetened drinks in small independent stores, particularly among populations at higher risk for sugar-sweetened beverage consumption.

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Bleich SN
Sara N. Bleich (sbleich@hsph.harvard.edu) is a professor of public health policy in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Lawman HG
Hannah G. Lawman is director of research and evaluation in the Division of Chronic Disease Prevention, Get Healthy Philly, Philadelphia Department of Public Health, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
LeVasseur MT
Michael T. LeVasseur is an adjunct professor of biostatistics at Drexel University, in Philadelphia.
Yan J
Jiali Yan is a data analyst in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia.
Mitra N
Nandita Mitra is a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
Lowery CM
Caitlin M. Lowery is a project manager in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, Maryland.
Peterhans A
Ana Peterhans is a project manager in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
Hua S
Sophia Hua is a project manager in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
Gibson LA
Laura A. Gibson is a research assistant professor in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
Roberto CA
Christina A. Roberto is an assistant professor in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

MeSH

BaltimoreBeveragesCommerceHumansPhiladelphiaSugar-Sweetened BeveragesTaxes

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Language

eng

PubMed ID

32634353

Citation

Bleich, Sara N., et al. "The Association of a Sweetened Beverage Tax With Changes in Beverage Prices and Purchases at Independent Stores." Health Affairs (Project Hope), vol. 39, no. 7, 2020, pp. 1130-1139.
Bleich SN, Lawman HG, LeVasseur MT, et al. The Association Of A Sweetened Beverage Tax With Changes In Beverage Prices And Purchases At Independent Stores. Health Aff (Millwood). 2020;39(7):1130-1139.
Bleich, S. N., Lawman, H. G., LeVasseur, M. T., Yan, J., Mitra, N., Lowery, C. M., Peterhans, A., Hua, S., Gibson, L. A., & Roberto, C. A. (2020). The Association Of A Sweetened Beverage Tax With Changes In Beverage Prices And Purchases At Independent Stores. Health Affairs (Project Hope), 39(7), 1130-1139. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01058
Bleich SN, et al. The Association of a Sweetened Beverage Tax With Changes in Beverage Prices and Purchases at Independent Stores. Health Aff (Millwood). 2020;39(7):1130-1139. PubMed PMID: 32634353.
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