Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Warning Labels: Lessons Learned From the Tobacco Industry

Overview

Journal J Calif Dent Assoc

Specialty Dentistry

Date 2017 Feb 14

PMID 28190943

Citations 14

Authors

Lucy Popova

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Abstract

Tobacco warning labels effectively educate consumers about the harms of tobacco and reduce smoking behavior. Lessons from tobacco warning labels can be applied to developing and implementing warning labels for sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). Large pictorial rotating warnings are particularly effective. Dental professionals can be an important voice in countering the industry's efforts to create controversy around the effects of SSBs and in advocating for effective warning labels based on the evidence from the tobacco warning labels. Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation..

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