Fighting obesity - Sugar tax blunt but effective

The Irish Beverage Council (IBC) has called a tax on sugary drinks a “blunt instrument” in the battle against obesity.

They are perfectly correct. But blunt instruments, crude an all though they may be, work. A sledgehammer may be a disproportionate weapon to kill a fly but it will do the job. Likewise, a health levy being considered here.

According to the IBC, international experience shows that a sugar tax will not work.