considering high taxes for cigarettes and unhealthy foods
Both the reading and the lecture talk about considering high taxes for cigarettes and unhealthy foods. The author of the excerpt is of the opinion that the raising in the cost of cigarettes and unhealthy foods provides us with several social benefits and discuss three of them. Nonetheless, all of the benefits mentioned in the article are challengeable in the professor's eyes, accordingly, she denies all of them by providing some explanation.
First and foremost, according to the author of the reading, such a consideration via government can prevent people from an unhealthy diet. However, the professor in the lecture refutes this claim by stating that in such a situation addicted individuals will not cut off smoking, rather they will buy cheaper cigarettes all of which cause more harmful atmosphere in a society since they are in a lower quality than expensive ones. In addition, he says that people will not change their food habits, so they will buy unhealthy food. Consequently, they will encounter with less remained money to spend on healthy foods.
The author of the article further asserts that such a decision is really fair for people, since eventually, all people must accept the same cost of living; either smokers who make pollutant in air and cause diseases for all people, or the rest of people that are forced to consider cost to their diseases brought by unhealthy behavior of smokers. Nevertheless, the professor in the lecture rebuts this implication by referring to the discrimination between people with higher income and people with lower income. In fact, in such a condition, individuals with low revenue will be faced with more difficulties to buy cigarettes or unhealthy foods.
The author of the excerpt lasting insists that an increase in taxes of such products and foods gives governments a good chance to use their great revenue of such taxes to do some beneficial projects. In this way, all dwellers will benefit. In contrast, the professor denies this idea by saying that the governments now can adopt regulations to prevent the harmful effect of such products on people, for instance
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 292, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...and discuss three of them. Nonetheless, all of the benefits mentioned in the article are c...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, consequently, first, however, if, nevertheless, nonetheless, really, so, well, for instance, in addition, in contrast, in fact
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: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 30.3222958057 198% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1777.0 1373.03311258 129% => OK
No of words: 350.0 270.72406181 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07714285714 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32530772707 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76805243551 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505714285714 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 539.1 419.366225166 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: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 79.31325057 49.2860985944 161% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.692307692 110.228320801 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.9230769231 21.698381199 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.0769230769 7.06452816374 157% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
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: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.26808561015 0.272083759551 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.099195286285 0.0996497079465 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.130120262362 0.0662205650399 196% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170644860093 0.162205337803 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0985338913271 0.0443174109184 222% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 13.3589403974 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 63.6247240618 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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