Professor Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Tufts University
Learning Objectives:
Describe the pathways by which a sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax could affect cardiovascular health.
Recognize that, under the societal perspective, the cost of SSB tax payments is zero, because they are counted as mere transfers from one person to another.
Describe how, under an alternative stakeholder perspective, the cost of an SSB tax differs across politically relevant stakeholder groups.
