Advantages and disadvantages of imposing high taxes on cigarettes and unhealthy foods.
The passage and the talk both discuss the consequnces of imposing taxes on cigarettes and unhealthy foods from governments. The writer contends that making these taxes have many beneficial results not only for the people who use these kind of substances, but also for whole society. The lecturer, however, refutes the author's assessments. She demonstrates three reasons to cast doubt on the claims made in the reading.
The first allegation of the script against which the orator argues is that paying high taxes results in decreasing cigarettes usage and it will have the same consequence on consuming unhealthy foods. In contrast, the professor highlights the fact that they not only will not use less cigarettes but also they will purchase cheaper ones which have much more detrimental effect on their health. Therefore, it makes more health risk to people who are smoking. She further asserts that continuing to use junky foods and paying high taxes, people will not have enough money to purvey more healthy foods.
Secondly, according to the text, getting serious health conditions, these people inflict laborious expenses on the government, and this will not be fair if other people's money spend on remedy these people; although the speaker finds this idea debatable. She bolsters her opinion by stating that high taxes will be unfair too, because when two people of different income want to buy a same cigarette, the one who has a lower revenue will be affected more than the other, since they could not afford these taxes as well as others.
Lastly, the lecture contradicts this fallacy of the passage that entire society will benefit from spending this money on public welfare, saying that governments will be dependant to this income, and as a result they will not enact laws to prevent consuming these kind of stuff, for instance they will not ban smoking in public areas.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 230, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this kind' or 'these kinds'?
Suggestion: this kind; these kinds
...results not only for the people who use these kind of substances, but also for whole socie...
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Line 1, column 284, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...substances, but also for whole society. The lecturer, however, refutes the authors ...
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Line 2, column 279, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun cigarettes is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...he fact that they not only will not use less cigarettes but also they will purchase ...
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Line 4, column 258, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this kind' or 'these kinds'?
Suggestion: this kind; these kinds
...ill not enact laws to prevent consuming these kind of stuff, for instance they will not ba...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, for instance, in contrast, kind of, as a result, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1575.0 1373.03311258 115% => OK
No of words: 312.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04807692308 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44735622965 2.5805825403 95% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.567307692308 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 475.2 419.366225166 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 86.2069391849 49.2860985944 175% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.181818182 110.228320801 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.3636363636 21.698381199 131% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.4545454545 7.06452816374 176% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => 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: 0.152869109528 0.272083759551 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0691961742456 0.0996497079465 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0935229069322 0.0662205650399 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0928215500282 0.162205337803 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0672670080564 0.0443174109184 152% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 13.3589403974 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 53.8541721854 96% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.38 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 63.6247240618 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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