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Lopsided I-1634 campaign, with millions from soda industry, blankets airwaves

The Seattle Times

Initiative 1634, backed to the tune of $13 million by a soda-pop industry that sees a threat to its profits in a growing wave of regulation, would ban local taxes on any food or beverage or ingredient intended for human consumption. Jesse Jones-Smith, associate professor of health services at the UW, is quoted.

October 13, 2018