a person carries the more pounds sterling us spends on health care the cost of more than five billion a year. the tax on sugar was unveiled two years ago but only comes into effect this friday soft drinks with more than five grams of sugar per hundred milliliter will increase in christ the equivalent of an extra twenty one cents per liter at another seven cents to dance if there's more than eighty grams of sugar which celebrity chef jamie oliver was one of the key campaigners for the levy on fizzy drinks. and. it's a symbolic slap and that's what we want to do you know how fine a business can do so well be so prolific and have genuinely track marks on. the tax has also had an indirect effect on sugar consumption it's good the drinks manufacturers an incentive to reduce the amount of sugar in their beverages