Mexico's 10% tax on sugary drinks is projected to prevent 18,900 premature deaths and save more than $983 million over 10 years.

A street merchant arranges soft drinks in Mexico City on Dec. 20, 2006. The American Beverage Association has poured $7.7 million into the campaign to defeat the soda tax on San Francisco’s ...

During the first year of Mexico’s soda tax, purchases of sugar-sweetened beverages “ went down on average about six percent, relative to what we think it would have been otherwise,” Ng says.

Mexican leaders link rampant soda consumption to COVID-19 deaths, blaming sugar for causing comorbidities such as obesity and diabetes.

Mexico has become the most obese country in the world. In a purported effort to combat the problem, the country implemented a one-peso-per-liter excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in January ...

MEXICO CITY — Father Raúl Martínez considers soda such a problem in his Catholic parish that he stops drinking it during the Lenten period and asks his parishioners to do the same.

For fans of taxing soda, Mexico is the object lesson. Last year, the country imposed a stiff new tax on sugary drinks. And according to the early data, it’s working.

Sales of soda are climbing two years after Mexico imposed a roughly 10% tax on sugary drinks—a bright spot for an industry that has feared it could be cast as the next tobacco.

One of the world’s highest soda taxes appears to be working. After just one year, purchases of sugary drinks in Mexico are down 12 percent, a new study shows. Even better, the biggest reductions ...

The public-health battle over soft-drink consumption, marked by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's failed attempt to ban big sodas, has spread to Mexico, long a stronghold of Coca-Cola.

Mexico’s politicians are working to create new obstacles for Coca-Cola’s sales growth, but the omnipresent soda brand’s has not seen much of a decline in popularity.