The Association's policy says soft drinks include beverages containing sugars and/or carbonation, and/or acidic products. These could include soda pop, juice drinks, sports (electrolyte replacement) drinks with added sugars and other beverages with added sugars.

Intitally the vending machines will be set up with the "standard" flavors which will be monitored for usage. Facilities Management will be taking suggestions that they can discuss with the vendor. Any special requests will be considered and monitored for sales.

The soft drink tax is imposed on bottled soft drinks, syrup used to make a soft drink for sale, and powders and bases (including concentrates) used to make a soft drink for sale.

Section 12-21-1710 states that a distributor, wholesaler, or retailer first receiving untaxed soft drinks or soft drink products shall obtain for each place of business a soft drink license.

A "soft drink" is any complete nonalcoholic drink, whether carbonated or not, including, but not limited to, soda water, ginger ale, nu-grape, coca-cola, lime-cola, pepsi-cola, budwine, any product having an alcohol content of less than one-half percent of weight or volume, fruit juice, vegetable juice, milk drinks when any flavoring or syrup is added, cider, cordials, carbonated water, and all preparations commonly referred to as soft drinks of whatever kind or description.

If diet drinks really helped, America would be full of slim people. Artificial sweeteners ingested on a regular basis are not good for you and effect the nervous system. They can cause irritable feelings, make a person more prone to stress, and promote fatigue. The better option is to have a regular soft drink, perhaps once a week, look forward to it and enjoy it. The rest of the time, fill up on such drinks as natural fruit juices.

Every man is bound to love himself, and this both with respect to his body and to his soul, and both with a natural love and with a supernatural love, that we call charity. The natural love is written into the natural law, that makes a man long for the preservation of bodily life and happiness. As St. Thomas Aquinas points out (ST, IIa IIae, Q. 25, A. 4) this is the basis and root of all natural friendship, according to which we love our friends as ourselves.

Distributors, wholesale, and retail dealers licensed under this section shall file the reports with the [department] as may be required not later than the twentieth day of each month showing transactions for the preceding month. Any person who fails to file the required reports must be penalized not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, to be assessed and collected in the same manner as other taxes are assessed and collected.

The basic idea is to try to promote players' ability to stay with their current teams. Nobody likes it when a player plays with a team his entire career, the fans love him, he wants to stay and the team wants to keep him, but he has to leave because the team is unable to offer him a large enough contract. The exceptions under a soft cap allow teams to keep players under these kinds of circumstances.

If all this news about benzene levels being detected in soft drinks distributed in Western Europe and America doesn't concern manufacturers yet, it should, considering lawsuits have been filed in Florida Circuit Court and Massachusetts Superior Court by parents earlier this week.

In accordance with Code Sections 12-21-1740, 12-21-1760, 12-21-1840, and 12-21-2120, the tax rate for bottled soft drinks, syrup, powders, and bases are as follows: Powders and Bases (including concentrates): 16 cents/ gallon customarily manufactured from the contents of the package or container

The soft drink tax will be repealed effective July 1, 2001; however, soft drink distributors liable for the soft drink tax will remain liable for any unpaid tax for all periods open under the statute of limitations. See Code Section 12-21-1745. The phase out incrementally reduces the soft drinks license tax in fiscal years beginning in 1996 through 2000. The license tax due is reduced as follows for returns due during the applicable fiscal year:

Yes. An exemption application (Form L 2090) must be submitted along with copies of the product label and the formula for the product.

The department maintains a list of all exempt bottled soft drinks. A copy of this list may be obtained by calling the License and Registration Section of the Office Services Divisions at (803) 898-5872. Section 12-21-1880 exempts products containing 30% or more natural fruit juice or natural vegetable juice, provided no artificial flavoring, artificial coloring or artificial preservatives are added. It also exempts products containing 30% or more natural liquified milk.

No. Section 12-21-1920 states, "...it shall be unlawful for the members of the [department], or any deputy, agent, clerk or officer....to divulge or make known in any manner any formula....."provided to the department in order to obtain an exemption.

Do not substitute caffeinated drinks for water since they act as a diuretic and stimulate appetite. Also avoid carbonated beverages, which can cause painful gas.

Drinking other liquids then water will clog the FilterPen prematurely. This is especially true for drinks containing a lot of sugar. Drinking a soft drink through the FilterPen will clog the filter almost immediately.

Yes, in moderation, as long as it does not stimulate your appetite and you are still able to drink the amount of water recommended during RESET.

He always preferred Coca-Cola to Pepsi-Cola when he was a child -- partly because he preferred the taste of Coke to Pepsi and partially because Pepsi's negative attack ads (which attempted to convince people that only squares and idiots drank Coca-Cola) irritated the living hell out of him. This preference for Coca-Cola was reinforced when he was in college at the University of Georgia. Coke machines were everywhere on campus and there wasn't a Pepsi machine to be seen.

Yes. While most runners and cyclists know the importance of hydrating, some don't realize over-hydrating can dangerously lower blood sodium levels-a condition known as hyponatremia. Hyponatremia seems most common in female and beginning marathoners and triathletes for two reasons. One, they are on the race course for many hours, losing lots of sodium in sweat. Two, they are hypervigilant about staying hydrated.