In some countries an increasing number of people are suffering from health problems as a result of eating too much fast food. It is therefore necessary for governments to impose a higher taxes on this kind of food. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

Nowadays, obesity is becoming more and more diffuse. In developed countries, scientists believe that the growth of people affected by health problems is due to the abuse of fast
food
.
This
essay will explain why governments should increase the tax on
this
type of
food
. The most important problem, regarding the health issue, is the disinformation. According to recent studies, only 12% of
population
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the population
of US is aware of what is inside a hamburger of MC Donald.
This
is the clear sign that consumers ignore the huge quantity of chemical substance which are used in order to maintain hamburger fresh for
long time
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a long time
.
This
essay
agree
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agrees
that it is necessary that the governments provide to the community tools in order to understand the risk of eating fast
food
but it is not enough. Unfortunately, the effect of campaign of information is not immediate,
thus
, higher tax
in
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on
this
type of
food
will change instantly the image of it. After the introduction of higher taxes, fast
food
companies will be forced to
rise
raise the level or amount of something
raise
prices which
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prices, which
will become less competitive than before.
On the other hand
, there
are
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is
a lot of politics that believe that higher tax will not be able to increase prices and
thus
, the people will continue to prefer
this
type of products because still affordable.
On the contrary
, I think that even if the fast
food
will be a little bit more
expansive
high in price or charging high prices
expensive
than now, the people will think more before going there to eat. In conclusion, I strongly believe that governments have a crucial role and the
first
step in order to decrease quickly health problems is the rise of taxes.
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