Success Of Sugar Tax

Some people will really moan about anything as proved when the then Chancellor introduced the Sugar Tax in 2018 in an attempt to cut obesity and campaigners for  tax claimed that it would lead to 180,000 fewer cases of obesity and generate £276 million in tax revenue.
It was a tax on the soft drinks industry on drinks which were produced in the UK or imported into the country to incentivise them to reduce the sugar content of their products.
Amidst calls of 'nanny state' and how somehow it would 'mostly hit the working class', it was obviously a success because retailers complied with it and led to less sugar being consumed in soft drinks.
The Government are now looking to take another step and applying the tax to milkshakes and some Coffee's and will supposedly will result in the NHS saving £4 million a year and research shows the soft drink levy led to a significant drop in the amount of sugar in people’s diets with the amount of sugar consumed by children down by half and a third in adults.
The drinks that are excluded includes drinks that are at least 75% milk, milk alternatives such as almond milk, soya milk, alcohol-free beer and wine, fruit or vegetable juices and liquid drink flavouring .
Research from last year found that the levy may have prevented more than 5,000 cases of obesity every year among girls while another study found that fewer children in England have needed to have rotten teeth extracted at the dentist since the levy was introduced.
Has to be a good thing and after milkshakes i would be eyeing food such as cakes and biscuits because if you ever look at the label on them, the sugar and carbohydrates in them are  shocking.