I'm fully with you on your health intention, Yana. I'm a bit conflicted on the tax issue, though. For two reasons. First, where do you stop once governments feel that they can willy-nilly tax everything. For example, I enjoy a good red wine. I wouldn't enjoy having to pay outrageous prices for it, only because some people can't deal with alcohol. Second, taxation makes governments a little bit akin to drug dealers. They let people use the drug (sugar etc.) AND they make money from its sale.

The solution is not so much in taxation and prohibition (we know how that one worked), but rather in health education and health literacy. Make these part of the curriculum starting from first-grade, and we wouldn't have an epidemic of lifestyle diseases. Come to think of it, if the tax money for sugar would directly flow into this education program, even I would support it.