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A policy analyst argues that taxing sugary drinks will reduce obesity rates, reasoning that the tax will discourage consumers from buying those drinks.
Which of the following is an assumption required by the analyst's argument?
- The revenue raised by the new sugary-drink tax will subsequently be used to fund public-health and nutrition-education programs.
- Consumers who cut back on sugary drinks will not simply replace those calories with other untaxed high-calorie foods or beverages.
- The tax will be set high enough to eliminate virtually all sugary-drink consumption across the entire population entirely.
- Sugary drinks are, by a wide margin, the single largest contributing cause of rising obesity in the population.
- Most consumers are currently entirely unaware of the serious long-term health risks closely associated with consuming sugar.
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