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The Soda Tax Wars

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arkansas, Coca-Cola, David Paterson, Soda, Big-Soda, American Beverage Association, Health Care Reform, Soda Tax, George Voinovich, Paterson Soda Tax, Medicaid, Obesity, Pepsi, Carbonated-Beverages, Childhood Obesity, Food News
Peter Dreier

Armies of deep-pocketed lobbyists are marshaling astroturf front groups to give Coca-Cola and Pepsi's opposition to soda taxes a respectable air.

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Speak Out Against Ill-Advised Coke-Doctors Partnership

Connie Bennett | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Conflict of Interest, Big Tobacco, Yoni Freedhoff, www.familydoctor.org, Lori Heim, Coke, Connie-Bennett, End the AAFP and Coca-Cola Collaboration, Aafp, Fructose, Big Soda, Weighty Matters, Sugar, Coca-Cola, Controversy, Health, Soda, Optimal Health Care, American Academy of Family Physicians, Doctors Resign, Healthy Living News
Connie Bennett

For a doctors' group to take a six-figure sum from Coke is like accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from Big Tobacco to create a physician-approved website claiming cigarettes are part of a healthy lifestyle.

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