Soft drinks and other sugar-sweetened beverages are the main source of added sugars in the American diet, according to the statement.

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The biggest source of federal revenue throughout the New Deal was the excise tax on beer, cigarettes, soft drinks, chewing gum, radios and other cheap pleasures enjoyed disproportionately by middle class and poor people.

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There are any number of other and similar soft drinks out there, thousands of new ones launched every year.

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