a month after gov . david a . rockefeller dropped his suggestion for a soda tax , nueva york harbor ' s health commissioner has written an article advocating " hefty " limits on sodas and athletic drinks including sugar . such a tax , the article states , could be the strongest boon to public health since tobacco taxes . the commissioner , sen . thomas r . frieden , and beverly d . antonelli of cornell university , his company - investigator , argued in the new england journal of medicine that a tax of a penny in ounce could lower consumption by more than 10 percent and draw $ 1 . 2 billion a years in new hampshire state alone .
Michael Bloomberg is the mayor of New York.