Özet:

Fat tax, which is an additional tax on the foods that cause obesity, aims to decrease the obesity by individuals. While many factors are effective in the success of fat tax, it is important that individuals accept / adopt this tax. The acceptability of tax possible future implementation obesity although not yet implemented in Turkey as individuals by measuring the level of demographic variables were uncovered admissibility of this tax. As a result of the analysis, it was found that economic, political, socio-psychological and health factors were effective on the fat tax acceptability level. In addition, the public acceptance of fat tax was low. While the highest level of admissibility is female and the marital status is single, the occupational group is public employees. There is a direct relationship between age, education, monthly income, monthly food expenditure and the fat tax acceptability level. On the contrary, there has been an inverse relationship between body mass index and acceptability.