[tim333]

Plans to cut the sales elsewhere would be interesting. Maybe a ban on ads and a health campaign? I'm sure the likes of Coca Cola would lobby hard against though.

[Karunamon]

As a normal citizen who doesn't even work in that sector, I'd be against it as well.

[DanBC]

I think government has plans to introduce a SSB tax, on top of the 20% VAT, sometime in 2018. This is to encourage the industry to self regulate.

I hope it doesn't go the way of minimum unit pricing for alcohol, which was announced and then withdrawn.

[tolien]

It's at least still going ahead in Scotland, despite the objections of the Scotch Whisky Association: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-37725251

[bitwize]

How about mandatory packaging requirements: all soda must be sold in puke-green bottles and cans, with large color photos of rotten teeth and cirrhosed livers on them and "THIS STUFF IS BAD FOR YOU" in huge Impact font.