Smoking is on the increase among young people. Discuss the problem and suggest what might be done about it.
The increasing amount of young smokers has been a cause of concern for some time. As recent surveys show that one-fifth of the total population takes up smoking before they are 20 years old, and this percentage has grown steadily in recent years. It seems increasingly clear that this development is causing problems in our society, and effective measures should be taken to solve these problems.
The first problem of cigarette smoking is that those who smoke for a long time take a high risk of suffering from serious health problems such as heart attacks, tuberculosis, and lung cancer. It has already been proved by scientists that tobaccos containing a large amount of nicotine and other perilous substances trigger a high risk of lung cancer, which is currently still incurable. In fact, in the United States, cigarette smoking is linked to about 80% to 90% of lung cancer deaths. Another worrying trend is that tobacco smoke has an adverse impact on the health of people who expose to it. For instance, researchers strongly suggest that children exposed to tobacco smoke are at increased risk of hearing loss. Scientists state that non-smokers do not get the benefit from their system adapting to smoke inhalation so the effects of passive smoking are far greater on non-smokers than on smokers.
One way to eradicate the problems of smoking would be that the governments should impose heavier taxes on cigarettes to persuade more people to give up smoking, especially youngers. If the measure were taken, even if it were possible for children to buy cigarettes before they are eighteen, it would be impossible for them to afford it. Moreover, the governments must introduce restrictions on smoking in public places. By controlling the emission of tobacco smoke in public places, we could improve the air quality and prevent non-smoker from passive smoking. Another solution would be for parents to teach their children about the wide variety of ailments that smoking produces. As a result, youngers would understand what will happen to them if they smoke, which reduces the prevalence of smoking among young people in our society.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that cigarette smoking may cause incredibly serious health problems, both smokers and non-smokers. Furthermore, the very effective way to reduce the number of young smoking people is by raising taxes on cigarettes, promulgating policies on banning smoking in public places, and educating people about the significant impact of cigarettes on people's health.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, if, may, moreover, so, still, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 7.30460921844 192% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 24.0651302605 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 63.0 41.998997996 150% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2129.0 1615.20841683 132% => OK
No of words: 409.0 315.596192385 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20537897311 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49708221141 4.20363070211 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71580146934 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 176.041082164 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.547677261614 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 648.0 506.74238477 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.2050898133 49.4020404114 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.235294118 106.682146367 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0588235294 20.7667163134 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.35294117647 7.06120827912 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.288344084111 0.244688304435 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0919901893397 0.084324248473 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.060552975945 0.0667982634062 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.172511974822 0.151304729494 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0332588293276 0.056905535591 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 13.0946893788 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 50.2224549098 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 78.4519038076 139% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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