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
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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
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
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is well reasoned,
people
will stay buy luxuries. There is
evidence for
this
dating back centuries. After the war of independence from Britain, the newly formed United
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instituted direly needed
taxes
on luxuries
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whiskey and chocolate .the
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
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cold calculation . In conclusion,
taxes
on unhealthy foods would not be an effective measure against their consumption.
governments should invest more in healthy school lunches and
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healthy products more widely available to attack the problem at its root source.