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Joseph Erbentraut, Huffington Post
Thu, 10/27/2016 - 5:41pm

With the election less than two weeks away, Big Soda is preparing for battle. The soda industry, led by the American Beverage Association trade group, is spending many millions of dollars in a carefully coordinated effort to defeat proposals in four U.S. cities to tax local sales of sugar-sweetened beverages. Three of the cities where voters will consider the proposals on Nov.

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