Press Releases and Media
- Statement by State Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines on New Study Linking Sugary Drink Consumption to Type 2 Diabetes - October 29, 2010
- Early Consumption of Soda Indicator of Unhealthy Diet - June 8, 2010
- Modified Sugar Sweetened Beverage Tax Package
- Drinking Fewer Sugar-Sweetened Beverages May Lower Blood Pressure - May 24, 2010
- Democrat and Chronicle Editorializes in Favor of Governor Paterson's Revised Tax on Sugary Beverages - May 23, 2010
- Dr. Joyce Vergili, a Doctor of Education in Nutrition Education, Registered Dietitian and Diabetes Educator, Discusses on WAMC Why a Tax on Sugary Beverages Would be Good for New Yorkers' Health - May 14, 2010
- New York Post Columnist Says "Facts Support the Tax" on Sugary Beverages as Means of Attacking the Obesity Epidemic - April 7, 2010
- Trusted Health Writer Jane E. Brody Supports a Tax on Sugary Beverages in "A Tax to Combat America's Sugary Diet" - April 6, 2010
- Beverage Lobby Steps Up Anti-Soda Tax Activities, Yet Calls Tax Dead - April 2, 2010
- New Study Indicates that New York's Proposed Sugary Beverage Tax Would Reduce Weight Gain in Youth - April 1, 2010
- Syracuse Post-Standard Becomes 6th Major Newspaper to Support Tax on Sugary Beverages - April 1, 2010
- Five Major Newspapers Support Tax on Sugary Beverages - March 31, 2010
- Bronx Neighborhoods Targeted by Beverage Lobby for Tax Protest Would Benefit Most from Reducing Sugary Drink Consumption: State Health Commissioner - March 30, 2010
- The Times Union Supports a Tax on Sugary Beverages in their Editorial "A Soda Tax we Can Swallow." - March 28, 2010
- State and NYC Health Commissioners Co-Author Daily News Op-ed, "Save the Sugar Soda Tax" - March 28, 2010
- Buffalo News Supports a Tax on Sugary Beverages in their Editorial, "Tax has health benefits: Penny-per-ounce sugary drink levy could help combat youth obesity." - March 24, 2010
- Soda Tax is a Sweet Idea: Crain's New York Business, New York City's major business publication, supports a tax on sugary beverages. - March 21, 2010
- State Health Commissioner Asks American Beverage Association To Open, Public Discussion About The Role Of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in the Childhood Obesity Epidemic - March 20, 2010
- A Beverage Tax Would Cut the Fat - March 14, 2010 - Crainsnewyork.com
- Tax on Sugary Beverages Will Help Reduce High Rates of Obesity in Monroe County, Protect Health Care Services - March 17, 2010
- Commissioner Daines Discusses how a Tax on Sugary Beverages Will Improve Health and Strengthen New York's Economy in his Op-Ed, "A Beverage Tax Would Cut the Fat." - March 16
- Tax on Sugary Beverages Will Help Reduce High Rates of Obesity in Erie County, Protect Health Care Services - March 16, 2010
- Tax on Sugary Beverages Will Help Reduce High Rates of Obesity in Bronx - March 15, 2010
- Health Commissioner Asks Staten Islanders to Support Soda Tax - March 12, 2010
- The New York Times Supports a Tax on Sugary Beverages in their Editorial, "Healthy Solution: Taxing Sodas" - March 9, 2010
- Remarks by Richard F. Daines, M.D., New York State Health Commissioner Symposium: Taking Action Against Obesity A Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax for New York State Sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine, State Capitol, Albany - March 8, 2010
- Commissioner Daines Urges New York's Legislature to do 'One Good Thing' in an Otherwise 'Miserable Budget Year' - March 8, 2010
- A Tax That Invests in Our Health, an op-ed by Commissioner Richard F. Daines, M.D., Times Union - March 4, 2010
- Democrat and Chronicle Supports a Tax on Sugary Beverages in their Editorial, "Overdue attention on obesity" - March 1, 2010
- Siena Poll Falls Flat on Soda Tax, Health Commissioner Says - February 22, 2010
- Who Supports A Sugary Beverage Tax? Plenty Do! - February 18, 2010
- Statement by State Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines on the Proposed Sugared Beverage Tax - February 5, 2010
- Public Expresses Support for a Tax on Sugared Beverages when Given Facts: Commissioner Daines - February 4, 2010
- Excise Tax on Sugared Beverages Provides Major Tool in Attack on Obesity Epidemic, Daines Testifies - January 22, 2010
Media
- Commissioner Richard F. Daines, M.D., talks with Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D., Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University about the experience of trying to gain legislative approval in New York State for a 1-cent-per-ounce excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverages to reduce obesity, lower health care costs, and provide critical funding for health care while reducing the State's budget deficit - September 22, 2010 (MP3)
- State Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines Talks with YNN Capital Tonight Host Liz Benjamin About the Soda Tax as a Fix for New York's Obesity Problem and Budget Dilemma - May 21, 2010
- Why the Consumption of Sugary Beverages is Contributing to the Obesity Epidemic. Watch the TODAY show segment that aired April 7, 2010
- Commissioner Daines Debates Justin Wilson of the Center for Consumer Freedom on the Proposed Tax on Sugary Beverages - March 23, 2010
- Watch Dr. Daines' discuss the beverage lobby's refusal to engage in an open debate on the sugary beverage tax on WABC-TV's "Up Close With Diana Williams" on March 14, 2010
- Commissioner Daines Discusses Why the Sugary Beverage Tax is a Triple Play for New York State on News 9's Capital Tonight, March 10, 2010
- Mayor Bloomberg Urges Albany to Pass a Penny-Per-Ounce Soda Tax to Reduce Childhood Obesity During his Weekly Radio Address, March 7, 2010
- Commissioner Daines talks with WNYC's Brian Lehrer about why it's important to pass a tax on sugary beverages to reduce the obesity problem in New York State, February 24 - Onthemedia.org
- Evil Bureaucrats Plot to Reduce Childhood Obesity: Commissioner Daines and staff discuss the false information being put out by the beverage lobby on the proposed tax on sugary beverages and strategize on how to get correct information to the public - YouTube.com
- Are you pouring on the pounds? - New York City Health Department's YouTube Channel
