Claim: If you don't buy cigarettes at your local supermarket, your grocery bill won't go up a dime. The same is true of the sugary drink tax. If passed, you can avoid paying the tax by not buying sugary drinks.
Fact-check: Rating the Philly Daily News' claim that 'It's not a grocery tax'
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Mark Dent
Date published: 2016-05-11T00:00:00