CA Introduces Soda Tax To Fund Childhood Obesity Programs

(www.publichealthadvocacy.org) - In the face of a $41 billion statewide obesity epidemic, California Senate Majority Leader Dean Florez (D-Shafter) today introduced legislation to tax sodas and other sugar-sweetened beverages to fund childhood obesity programs. "I don't want obesity to be the legacy that we leave to our children," Sen.