Coca-Cola Criticizes Mexico's Soda Tax Plan Agence France-Presse
go to original September 11, 2013

The Mexican government is to fight growing rates of diabetes and bulging waist lines with a tax on sugary drinks.

Coca-Cola and other soft drink makers in Mexico have responded angrily to the plan, saying it will have little effect on the country's health and weight problems.

Mexico leads the world in soft drink consumption, drinking 163 litres of sweetened drinks per person annually.

Mexico also leads the world with the highest prevalence of diabetes in the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) with 10.8 per cent of the population suffering from the disease.

... President Enrique Pena Nieto has proposed to make Mexicans pay 8 cents extra for every litre of sweetened drinks in an effort to improve the nation's figures.

But Coca-Cola Mexico has argued that "a tax on beverages is ineffective to combat a problem as complex as obesity".

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