San Francisco weighs soda ad health warning | Metro

San Francisco weighs soda ad health warning | Metro



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SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco officials
are deciding whether to impose a warning on ads for a favourite drink of
children and a bane of public health advocates: Sugary soda pop.


The “Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Warning Ordinance” would require health
warnings on advertising within city limits — on billboards, walls, the
sides of cabs and buses. Supporters and opponents say San Francisco
would be the first place in the country to require warnings on ads for
soda, which is linked to rotting teeth and obesity.


The Board of Supervisors is expected to vote Tuesday on a trio of
measures to curb soda consumption, just seven months after voters killed
a proposed tax on sweetened beverages at the ballot."