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Could targeted food taxes improve health?
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- Published on: 28 August 2007
- Published on: 28 August 2007The best recipe? Combining food taxes with subsidies on healthy foodsShow More
Dear Editor
The Journal has previously explored interesting taxation and health issues [1,2] and the recent paper by Mytton et al [3] on food taxes is no exception. This new work nicely demonstrates the complexities, uncertainties and potential benefit of taxing certain foods as an instrument to reduce the high burden of chronic diseases. The key issues raised are which foods get substituted as a result of decrea...
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