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Article: French Remove Junk Food Vending Machines
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- July 30, 2004
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AP Online
07-30-2004
Dateline: PARIS
Soda and junk food vending machines are getting kicked out of French schools as part of a broad public health bill passed by parliament Friday to combat rising obesity among youths.
The ban on vending machines will take effect for the school term beginning September 2005.
Sweetened alcoholic beverages, which are popular among youths, will get hit with a still-to-be decided but "dissuasive" tax as part of the new law, lawmakers said. France's legal drinking age ...