Cook County's short-lived 'soda' tax worked, says new study

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/uoia-ccs022420.php

News Release 24-Feb-2020
University of Illinois at Chicago

A study of beverage sales in Cook County, Illinois, shows that for four months in 2017 -- when the county implemented a penny-per-ounce tax on both sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened drinks -- purchases of the taxed beverages decreased by 21%, even after an adjustment for cross-border shopping.

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