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 passage and the lecture are both about a policy of imposing high taxes on cigarettes and unhealthy foods. While the author of the article thinks it has great benefits for people and governments, The professor rebuts each of these beneficial facts respectively. She thinks it is not a comprehensive solution to the problem.
First of all, the reading passage says that this action encourages smokers to use cigarettes less than the past since they need to spend a large amount of money on buying only a single pack. Similarly, the individuals who want to enjoy fatty foods must pay much money to meet their dream of eating huge pizza. This hypothesis is challenged by the lecturer. She holds an opinion that if the government does this policy, people try to enjoy cheaper fast foods that have low-quality ingredients. The more chip the meal is, the more illness it will cause. Moreover, she mentions by doing so there is no money in their pocket to be allocated to organic healthy foods. This is the same in the field of cigarettes. She believes it is obvious that famous brands like Marlboro have less adverse components in it rather than other low-quality brands, which fill the products with whatever they find.
Secondly, the passage asserts that these taxes can make equality in the country. He adds this can divide people who do not have bad habits from the people who addicted to using cigarettes or junk foods. However, the professor thinks differently, she thinks it is not fair if we devote the same taxes for the people with low salaries and the rich high-class level of citizens. She adds the government must consider their incomes first before imposing any taxes on them, there must be a big difference between the money that simple workers must pay with money that management of a big holding is going to pay.
Finally, earning a great amount of money from these taxes can help governments to build some stadiums and public parks for all people which is a great idea in the author's mind. Nevertheless, although the lecturer believes this is a great income for the government, this will make them lazy in countering bad habits in a society because it is financially beneficial for them. She thinks governments must be always motivated to do it's best to reduce the number of cigarette and junky fast food consumers.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, second, secondly, similarly, so, while, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.4613686534 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 22.412803532 187% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 47.0 30.3222958057 155% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1934.0 1373.03311258 141% => OK
No of words: 402.0 270.72406181 148% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.81094527363 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47771567384 4.04702891845 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56189439449 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 145.348785872 148% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.534825870647 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 594.9 419.366225166 142% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 3.25607064018 338% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.4130294854 49.2860985944 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.444444444 110.228320801 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3333333333 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.11111111111 7.06452816374 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 4.33554083885 254% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.234027240116 0.272083759551 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0677178455162 0.0996497079465 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0862838413925 0.0662205650399 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152329416474 0.162205337803 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0503537694056 0.0443174109184 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.42419426049 94% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 63.6247240618 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => 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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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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