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.
The article states that high tax on cigarettes and unhealthy foods will be beneficial for the government and people and provide three reasons of support. However, the professor in the lecture tells that high tax on cigarettes and unhealthy foods will not have much benefits as the author claims, and the professor repudiates each of the reasons of the author.
First, the reading claims that high tax on cigarettes and unhealthy foods will dicourage people to buy it, so there will be health benefits. Notwithstanding, the professor thinks this is not the case. The professor explains that there are other possibilities of of increasing tax on cigarettes, such as instead of abstaining, people may start to consume lower grade cigarettes because of price , and this will cause severe health problem to the consumers. In case of unhealthy foods, people may spend more money to buy unhealthy foods and if they behave in this way, then they will have small amount of money for the healthy foods. As a result, people will buy less healthy foods, which will also cause health problems.
Second, the author of the passage posits that increasing taxes are financial fair. On the contrary, the professor challenges this poit also by saying that this step will be unfair in some cases. She tells that there are different kind of earner in the society. If taxes inceases, then the low earner will have lower money and the higher earner will have more money.She exemplify about two men, who need one packets of cigarettes each day. Thus, the plan will not be fair in some cases.
Third, the author of the article mentions that the step will increase the revenue of the government. Nevertheleast, the professor opposes this reason also. According to the professor, lot of revenue from this commodities will discourage the government to prostulate laws and rules to reduce cigarettes and unhealthy foods consumption. For example, the government may make rule about the limitaion on smoke, that is people will not able to smoke in public places or private places. For the greed of getting more revenues government will be reluctant to formulate any kind of laws.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, may, second, so, then, third, thus, for example, kind of, such as, as a result, in some cases, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 5.04856512141 396% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1797.0 1373.03311258 131% => OK
No of words: 360.0 270.72406181 133% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99166666667 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35587717469 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59601866852 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.469444444444 0.540411800872 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 541.8 419.366225166 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.7123879525 49.2860985944 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.705882353 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1764705882 21.698381199 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 7.06452816374 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 16.0 4.19205298013 382% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 4.45695364238 224% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.229685171073 0.272083759551 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0846539327023 0.0996497079465 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0994569494401 0.0662205650399 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173153004451 0.162205337803 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0996463851649 0.0443174109184 225% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.2367328918 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.62 8.42419426049 90% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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