Is the anti-sugar tax lobby taking a page from Big Tobacco’s playbook?: A sugar tax of at least 20% could prevent about 160 000 new cases of type 2 diabetes in South Africa over the next 20 years, according to a 2015 mathematical model published in the journal PLOS ONE, an international peer-reviewed journal, which lends it si ... Source: "South Africa" - … [Read more...] about SA News: Is the anti-sugar tax lobby taking a page from Big Tobacco’s playbook?
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