date:Jan 31, 2013
sugar in our diets and raising money to protect children's health.
It says the UK consumes more than 5,727 million litres of sugary soft drinks a year. Adding a 20p tax for every litre sold would raise more than 1.1bn.
Mike Rayner, of the department of public health at Oxford University and chairman of Sustain, said: Just as we use fiscal measures to discourage drinking and smoking and help prevent people from dying early, there is now lots of evidence that the same approach would work for fo