some think that governments should tax unhealthy foods to encourage people to to eat healthier. To what extent do you agree or disagree

Some think that heavy-handed governmental taxation is the only way to compel healthier eating. In my opinion,

while

this

makes rational sense, its actual effectiveness is questionable. Those

that

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argue in favour of these

taxes

can point to a logical chain of suppositions. Though

taxes

on unhealthy foods are rare ,there is the occasional mandated price hike for sugary drinks and fast food ,smoking is an instructive corollary. Several decades after research showed that smoking causes cancer ,governments are able to push through legislation to tax cigarettes heavily. The result was that those already addicted to smoking continued to smoke but many

people

did not pick up the habit

to begin

with. Proponents argue

this

would

also

be the case when it comes to foods known to cause cardiovascular disease ,diabetes and cancer

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Many

would eat them despite higher prices but the next generation would become more health conscious and that would

further

trickle down to their children . Though the above

arguments

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is well reasoned,

people

will stay buy luxuries. There is

strog

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strong

evidence for

this

dating back centuries. After the war of independence from Britain, the newly formed United

states

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instituted direly needed

taxes

on luxuries

included

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whiskey and chocolate .the

surpose

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purpose

purposes

of the

taxes

was to raise money ,not to lower consumption of those products. The unpopular acts were internally vindicated when

people

continued to buy luxuries along the same growth trend ,enabling them to increase the national budget. Even though cutting down on purely pleasurable products makes dis disinterested sense,

people

are more swayed by instant gratification

that

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cold calculation . In conclusion,

taxes

on unhealthy foods would not be an effective measure against their consumption.

Instead

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governments should invest more in healthy school lunches and

making

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healthy products more widely available to attack the problem at its root source.