Mexican soda sales

A useful graph from the Food and Grocery Council. As you can see the impact on soda sales in Mexico from their sugar tax has been minimal.

Over two years sales dropped a miniscule 0.5% after the tax was introduced. By comparison sales in NZ in the last year dropped 4.7% with no soda tax.

Sugar taxes are great at increasing the tax burden on families, but there is no evidence that they have reduced obesity.