Sugary Drinks, Processed Foods, Alcohol and Tobacco are Big Killers: Why the G20 Should Add its Weight to Health Taxes
By 2030, non-communicable diseases will account for 75 percent of all deaths annually. Eighty percent of these will be located in the Global South. Most of these diseases are what we call silent killers: type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease, as well as certain types of cancer at increasingly younger ages. The…