Tobacco, mainly in the form of cigarettes is one of the most widely used drugs in the world. Over a billion adults legally smoke tobacco every day. The long term health costs are high- for the smokers themselves, and for the wider community in terms of health care costs and lost productivity.
Do Governments have a legitimate role to protect citizens from the harmful effects of their own decisions to smoke, or are such decisions up to an individual?
The war between tobacco companies and the governments has been raging for years. Only in the recent years has there been a definitive stand taken against tobacco companies and smokers.
It is common knowledge that tobacco smoking can cause diseases that can mutilate one’s body. The diseases range from a variety of cancers of the oral cavity to the respiratory system(especially the lungs), having worsening effects on heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, auto/self amputations secondary to gangrene and not forgetting harm to foetus in pregnant mothers.
Recent studies show that passive smokers are at a higher risk of developing diseases as the particles they inhale are finer. These particles can lodge deeper in the tissues leading to a worse form of the disease as seen amongst the smokers themselves.
One of the recent victory against the powerful tobacco companies was the ban of displaying the names on the packaging. The cover is replaced with images of disease repercussions caused by smoking.
Similarly, banning of smoking in public areas with only a few designated areas for smokers has been implemented. Anyone caught disobeying the rule is heavily fined. Many countries have adopted and implemented this rule with success.
Furthermore, using media to advertise effects and repercussions of smoking has had more of an impact on smokers. These advertisements portray real people talking of their battle and problems with smoking. They also depict the strong message of by stopping the habit of smoking, how it can prolong their life to enjoy with family.
In conclusion, I believe it is the responsibility of the government to educate the public of all the harmful effects of smoking, limiting their access by implementing high taxes and banning sales to individuals under 18 years of age. This will educate and make the individuals aware of the effects of smoking, leaving the choice in their hands.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'furthermore', 'if', 'second', 'similarly', 'so', 'as for', 'in conclusion', 'talking of']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.269230769231 0.247107183377 109% => OK
Verbs: 0.186390532544 0.155533422707 120% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0621301775148 0.0946595960268 66% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0266272189349 0.0501214627716 53% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0355029585799 0.0437548338989 81% => OK
Prepositions: 0.144970414201 0.122226691241 119% => OK
Participles: 0.0917159763314 0.0403226058552 227% => Less participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 2.86806317729 2.80594681477 102% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0236686390533 0.0326793684256 72% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.109467455621 0.0861772015684 127% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0147928994083 0.021408717616 69% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00591715976331 0.011925033212 50% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1935.0 1933.35771543 100% => OK
No of words: 308.0 316.048096192 97% => OK
Chars per words: 6.28246753247 6.12580529183 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.20517956788 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.422077922078 0.374742101984 113% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.327922077922 0.28420135186 115% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.194805194805 0.203846283523 96% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.126623376623 0.137316102897 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86806317729 2.80594681477 102% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 176.037074148 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574675324675 0.56093040696 102% => OK
Word variations: 62.0935615558 60.7387585426 102% => OK
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0891783567 99% => OK
Sentence length: 19.25 20.7743622355 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.9354748237 49.517814964 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.9375 127.492653851 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.25 20.7743622355 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.5625 0.814263465372 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.38877755511 159% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.99599198397 0% => OK
Readability: 52.0422077922 49.1944974215 106% => OK
Elegance: 2.03571428571 1.69124875643 120% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.542273149626 0.332605444948 163% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.135670249438 0.102741220458 132% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.112635108063 0.0668466124924 168% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.672804496587 0.534860350844 126% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.15711622837 0.148594505496 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.22263798593 0.134430193775 166% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.133837929984 0.0742795772207 180% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.259714925789 0.324371583561 80% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.102400138408 0.0638462369009 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.321910624306 0.228012699653 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0997883365623 0.058150111329 172% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.68436873747 35% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 3.41683366733 234% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 2.0 5.90881763527 34% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 2.5751503006 116% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 1.9629258517 204% => OK
Total topic words: 9.0 10.4468937876 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.