Tobacco, mainly in the form of cigarettes, is one of the most widely-used drugs in the sorld. Over a billion adults legally smoke tobacco every day. The long term health costs are high – for smokers themselves, and for the wider community in terms of health care costs and lost productivity.
Do governments have a legitimate role to legislate to protect citizens from the harmful effects of their decisions to smoke, or are such decisions up to the individual?
Tobacco is one of the most widely-used drugs of the world. Over a billion adults legally smoke tobacco
every day. Tobacco is slowing taking a billion people in the world towards doom. The long term health
costs are high for smokers, who suffer from various heart and lung diseases, reduced concentration
and continually diminishing immunity.
Non-smokers, accompanying smokers or those who are in their close vicinity, also become “Passive”
smokers and bear the toll of various inevitable diseases as they inhale the smoke which has an illeffect
on their respiratory systems. Thus, the health costs are high—for smokers themselves, and for
wider community in terms of health care costs and lost productivity.
There has been awareness among people from many years, about the ill-effects of smoking and
various campaigns run by the government, NGOs and local bodies to encourage people to quit
smoking but the result have not been impressive. The solution is to nip the problem in the bud. School
authorities and parents should keep a close eye so that children don’t start to smoke because they
think it is “cool”. They should be made aware about the harmful effects of smoking.
Government could play a vital role too. Smoking should not be high-hand in advertisements and movie
commercials which have a huge impact on people. It could levy high taxes on tobacco products to
keep people away from its reach. Rules for checking children buying such products should be made
stringent.
The onus to protect from such products also lie on individuals as will-power always does the trick. The
knowledge of importance of being healthy has to be realized from within. It goes a long way to check
the problem. Thus, the solution requires both legitimate action of Government and strong individual
decisions to eliminate the problem.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, so, thus, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.5418719212 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 6.10837438424 115% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 8.36945812808 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 5.94088669951 84% => OK
Pronoun: 12.0 20.9802955665 57% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 31.9359605911 119% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.75862068966 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1598.0 1207.87684729 132% => OK
No of words: 299.0 242.827586207 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.34448160535 5.00649968141 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 3.92707691288 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89324142852 2.71678728327 106% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 139.433497537 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.595317725753 0.580463131201 103% => OK
syllable_count: 465.3 379.143842365 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.6157635468 65% => OK
Article: 7.0 1.56157635468 448% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 1.71428571429 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.931034482759 215% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 3.65517241379 82% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 12.6551724138 142% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.5024630542 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 59.2163067715 50.4703680194 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.7777777778 104.977214359 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6111111111 20.9669160288 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.44444444444 7.25397266985 20% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 20.0 4.12807881773 484% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 6.9802955665 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 2.75862068966 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 2.91625615764 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.307917116741 0.242375264174 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0937351267362 0.0925447433944 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.130545740352 0.071462118173 183% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0830852719542 0.151781067708 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.120572698721 0.0609392437508 198% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 12.6369458128 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 53.1260098522 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.9458128079 87% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 11.5310837438 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.32886699507 103% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 55.0591133005 143% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.94827586207 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.3980295567 81% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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