PUBHLTH 2 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Social Forces, Gie
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Week 5 active discussion (cid:862)it"s a(cid:271)solutely (cid:448)ital for pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) offi(cid:272)ials to take leadership as stewards for a healthy so(cid:272)iety(cid:863) gathering support of any policy change takes time. New york, penny per ounce for sugar tax. But they added dollar sixty excise tax on cigarettes that is credited dramatically reducing smoking rates and health care costs. Why on tabaccoo but not sh. 12 on sugar. I(cid:374) the early days proposals for taxes met the same fate as the. New york soda initiative but strategies like taxes with far reaching potential warranet attemps. The more a policy is proposed the more peple have a chance to discuss and underst it. Politices crease oppurtunities for news coverage that helps set the agenda for public debate. Now these discussions create criticism for taxing surgary beverages but each new attempt gvies peple the opportunity to communicate. These beverages do damage to our society and the government needs to protect the publics health from that harm.
