date:Sep 11, 2013
ulture Organization of the United Nations.
A number of countries have imposed taxes on food and beverages to fight obesity, including Denmark, Finland, France and Hungary. But according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), it is unknown how such taxes affect consumer behavior.
Some may respond by reducing their consumption of healthy goods in order to pay for the more expensive unhealthy goods, thus defeating the purpose of the tax, OECD states in a 2012 report