New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s soda ban could actually make people buy and drink more soda, according to a new study.

When undergraduate students at the University of California at San Diego were presented with menus offering varying sizes of sodas and “bundles” of smaller drinks, they chose significantly more soda from the bundled menu, researchers at the university found.

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