date:Jun 06, 2012
welcoming Bloombergs proposal.
President Sylvia Escott-Stump said the Academy had convened a working group toexamine the effectiveness of measures like proposed bans and taxes that are designed to influence consumers' purchases and their potential impact on people's health.
But currently, the jury was out on whether such interventions resulted in positive behavioral change, claimed Escott-Stump:
To date, most bans and taxations like the New York proposal are based on theoretical models. Ther