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.
In the article, it listed three main benefits of the policy of imposing high taxes on cigarettes and other unhealthy products. however, in the lecture, the woman challenged the reasons one by one.
Firstly, the article said that the taxes will encourage people to buy fewer of unhealthy food. however, the woman thought that it will oppositely lead to much more unhealthy behavior. because people tend to buy cheaper cigarettes in low quality. considering the consumers' reaction on rising of food price, they will still consume the same thing in a lower price instead of forgiving them. Besides, if the people consumer much expensive cigarettes, they will spend less money on healthy food, increasing the risk of being a patient.
Secondly, in the article, taxes were considered as a financially fair product to healthy and unhealthy people, but the woman thought that they were unfair to low earners because of the rising financial burden. For a consumer in high income, high taxes on cigarettes do not affect the buying behavior of him or her. Thus, it increased the burden of a low income consumer.
Lastly, the government will not use the tax revenue on medical assistance and other welfare projects as the article mentioned. The woman used historical behavior of government to infer that they might not use the revenue to implement the basic services.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, still, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 10.4613686534 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 12.0772626932 33% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1138.0 1373.03311258 83% => OK
No of words: 225.0 270.72406181 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05777777778 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.87298334621 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60591539804 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 125.0 145.348785872 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.555555555556 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 358.2 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.291309282 49.2860985944 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.8333333333 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.75 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06452816374 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => 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 : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.265837542852 0.272083759551 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0977158111668 0.0996497079465 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110814885611 0.0662205650399 167% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.168210393122 0.162205337803 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0862763409772 0.0443174109184 195% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.7273730684 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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