a month after premier . david a . paterson revised his proposal for a milk license , new york city ' s health officer has published an essay advocating " whopping " limits on sodas and sports drinks containing sugarcane . such a tax , the article said , should be the biggest boon to municipal medical before tobacco taxes . the inspectors , dr . andrew r . frieden , and lynn d . brownell of yale undergraduate , his co - author , argue in the new england journal of medicine that a tax of a penny per ounce potentially reduce consumption by more than 10 percent and raised $ 1 . 2 % a season in new york town revenues .
anthony york is the executive of new hampshire .