Many countries require cigarette smokers to pay particularly high taxes on their purchases of cigarettes; similar taxes are being considered for unhealthy foods. The policy of imposing high taxes on cigarettes and other unhealthy products has a number of social benefits.
First of all, the taxes discourage people from indulging in unhealthy behaviors. Raising taxes on cigarettes, for instance, leads people to buy fewer of them. Smoking has declined as taxes on tobacco have risen, showing that these taxes do work to make society healthier. It can be expected that imposing similar taxes on unhealthy food and beverages would help reduce obesity rates.
Second, taxes of this kind are financially fair. When people get sick as a result of their smoking or eating unhealthy foods, they create medical costs. It is unfair that everyone in the society, including nonsmokers and people who follow a healthy diet, should contribute equally to covering these costs. Taxing people who engage in unhealthy behaviors creates extra income that can be used to cover the medical costs. In this way, some of the financial burden is shifted from all of society to just those who choose to participate in the unhealthy activities.
Finally, the high rate of taxation on cigarettes significantly increases revenue for the government. In addition to using this tax revenue on medical assistance, governments often use the revenue for other projects that benefit public welfare, such as building stadiums or creating public parks. Even basic government-supported services like public education benefit from these taxes. Thus, the taxes on cigarettes, and the proposed taxes on unhealthy foods, benefit everyone.
Both the author and the lecturer discuss merits and demerits of imposing high taxes on cigarettes and other unhealthy products has benefits or not. The passage claims imposing taxes on cigarettes and other unhealthy products has many advantages. The professor, on the other hand, completely rejects whatever mentioned in the reading through citing three reasons.
First, both the author and the professor talk about people's approach. according to the passage, the taxes discourage people from indulging in unhealthy behaviors. The lecturer, nevertheless, rejects the author's view and illustrates the idea that imposing high taxes oblige people to buy cheaper and lower quality products that contain harmful substances. Therefore, increasing taxes on unhealthy food raises health risks and put people’s life in danger.
Second of all, both the reading and the lecture talk about fairness of taxes. The author argues that taxes on unhealthy products are financially fair. However, the professor refutes this, saying that there is another definition for justice. it is fair to relate taxes to incomes. it is unfair that someone with lower income has to be faced with more financial burdens than who has higher income.
Eventually, both the passage and the lecture address the subject of government’s revenue increase. The passage goes on to mention that the high rate of taxation on cigarettes can be used for other projects that benefit public welfare. In contrast, the professor points out that according to the high revenue from cigarettes taxation government adopt strict policies not to lose this source of income such as not allowing people to smoke in outdoor public areas.
All in all, the author maintain that there are plenty of merits in increasing taxation of unhealthy products, while the professor not only cast doubt on, but she also demonstrates that it has lots of demerits for unhealthy products' consumers and others.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, therefore, while, as to, in contrast, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 7.30242825607 178% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1660.0 1373.03311258 121% => OK
No of words: 306.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42483660131 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.681533354 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52614379085 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 500.4 419.366225166 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.618480585 49.2860985944 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.75 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.125 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.5625 7.06452816374 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.343033269803 0.272083759551 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.121425597442 0.0996497079465 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.115415882206 0.0662205650399 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.187638204396 0.162205337803 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0994090495437 0.0443174109184 224% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.8541721854 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.2367328918 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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