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 reading and the lecture are both about raising taxes on both cigarettes and junk foods. While the author of the article states that imposing taxes on cigarettes and junk foods has numerous benefits, the lecturer disputes the claims made in the article. His position is that those benefits can be criticized.
According to the reading, taxes help people give up on bad behaviors because few people would purchase cigarettes. The article mentions that putting a tax on junk foods and beverages would reduce the obesity rate. This argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that taxes do not help people with bad behaviors because high taxes force people to purchase low-quality cigarettes which might raise health problems. Additionally, he points out that people would continue to buy junk food and eventually have little money to buy good food.
Secondly, the author suggests that imposing a tax is fair financially because when people get ill due to smoking or junk food they create medical costs In the article, it is said that people with bad habits pay more on health insurance. The lecturer, however, asserts that although taxes might be fair on bad behaviors, it does take peoples income into consideration. For instance, when the rich and the poor purchase cigarettes, more pressure would be on the poor earner. He goes on to say the same effect is felt in people eating junk food.
Finally, the author puts forth the idea that taxes raise government revenue because the government uses the money to boost public welfare. The author contends that public schools also benefit from taxes. In contrast, the lecturer's stance is that government is unlikely to ban cigarettes because they rely so much on the income it generates. He notes that they are unlikely to adopt measures of not smoking in the public
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, however, second, secondly, so, while, for instance, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1533.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 305.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0262295082 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49821435827 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531147540984 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 472.5 419.366225166 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => 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: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.5463178779 49.2860985944 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.8125 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0625 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.875 7.06452816374 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
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: 0.234386617222 0.272083759551 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0750249451743 0.0996497079465 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0622793057085 0.0662205650399 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146544582623 0.162205337803 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0528580445761 0.0443174109184 119% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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