Bleich Sara N, Lawman Hannah G, LeVasseur Michael T, Yan Jiali, Mitra Nandita, Lowery Caitlin M, Peterhans Ana, Hua Sophia, Gibson Laura A, Roberto Christina A
Sara N. Bleich (
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.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2020 Jul;39(7):1130-1139. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01058.
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.
2017年1月，宾夕法尼亚州费城对含糖或人工甜味剂的饮料征收每盎司1.5美分的消费税。小型独立商店是一个重要但研究不足的场所。在城市和低收入地区，人们经常光顾这些商店，而含糖饮料是其中最常购买的商品之一。我们比较了费城小型独立商店和未征税的对照城市马里兰州巴尔的摩在税收实施前及实施后十二个月饮料价格和购买量的变化。我们的样本包括134家有价格数据的商店和4584笔顾客购买记录。与巴尔的摩相比，费城在税收实施后，征税饮料的价格显著上涨（每盎司1.81美分，即税收的120.4%），征税饮料的销售量显著下降（5.76盎司，即38.9%）。饮料消费税可能是一种有效的政策工具，可减少小型独立商店中甜味饮料的购买，特别是在含糖饮料消费风险较高的人群中。
