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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 lecture and the article are both about tax of the unhealthy behaviors. The professor in the lecture challenges the argument made by the author.

First, the lecturer notes that the tax which is posed on the cigarette is not necessarily lead to healthier life for them since those people tending to smoke or eat unhealthy food might turn to the cheaper or low quality cigarette, so is food. This might be more harmful to them and not able to make them live healthier. Furthermore, she also says that the more expensive food, because of the tax, might not be effective to someone who will keep buying that. Instead, they will lessen their money on the health food to pay the more expensive one.

Second, the professor states since government doesn't take the income level into consideration, some people will consider it not fair. The professor takes a example that there are a group of people who in high income level and get addicted to cigarette. Compared to those who only have low income, those people actually should be posed higher tax because they consume more harmful items. As for unhealthy food, it is the same that income level should be included to the policy.

Last, professor believes that tax on unhealthy items does not really benefit everyone. She mentions that the amount of the tax on the unhealthy items is at the level of million dollars. The reason why government doesn't ban or still allow people to smoke or eat unhealthy food is since they can receive a host of income. That is, the government doesn't want to lose the income so they won't really forbid this kind of behaviors.

In conclusion, the professor is against the arguments made by the author via three opposite points of view, including that tax is not necessarily lead to decrease in use of unhealthy items, that income level should be taken into consideration, and that government poses tax, instead of banning, so that they can receive a quite big income. Those are the reasons why professor disagree with the idea in the reading material.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, furthermore, if, really, second, so, still, as for, in conclusion, kind of

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 30.3222958057 145% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1686.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 352.0 270.72406181 130% => OK
Chars per words: 4.78977272727 5.08290768461 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33147354134 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45238093746 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 145.348785872 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.480113636364 0.540411800872 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 531.0 419.366225166 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 3.25607064018 276% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
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: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.4962362105 49.2860985944 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.375 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0625 7.06452816374 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 4.45695364238 269% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.246631606234 0.272083759551 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0825440906915 0.0996497079465 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0621954617425 0.0662205650399 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136492832032 0.162205337803 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.032091029509 0.0443174109184 72% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.5 12.2367328918 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.37 8.42419426049 87% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, furthermore, if, really, second, so, still, as for, in conclusion, kind of

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments