High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A soda tax or soft drink tax is a tax or surcharge on soft drinks. It may focus on sugar-sweetened beverages. As an example of Pigovian taxation, it may aim to discourage unhealthy diets and offset the economic costs of obesity. In the United States, obesity has been a growing problem and seems to have reached epidemic proportions in the last few years. Soda consumption has been noted as a contributing factor to the obesity epidemic and medical costs related to obesity are about $147 billion a year. In 1994 the soda tax idea was introduced by Kelly D. Brownell, Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale. Today, there are 33 states that have a sales tax on soft drinks.

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