The Association has joined the Daily Mirror, MPs, teachers and celebrity campaigners including Jamie Oliver in pressing the Government to take action, urging it to ‘make sugar the new tobacco’.
Highlighting the impact of energy drinks on children’s teeth BDA chairman Mick Armstrong said: 'They are habit forming, highly acidic and can come laced with 20 teaspoons of sugar – far more than a can of coke.
'Tooth decay remains the number one reason for hospital admissions among children and young people. Ministers like to talk about prevention. They can prove it by calling time on the sale of energy drinks to kids.'
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