Many manufactured food and drinks products contain high levels of sugar, which casuses many health problmes. Sugar products should be made more expensive to encourge people to consume less sugar. Do you agree or diagree?
Many food and drinks produced in factories contain elevated levels of sugar, which causes many
health
issues. To push people to eat less sugary products they should be made more expensive. This
essay agrees with this
notion because more expensive items are bought less and the money made could be invested back into the health
system to treat said health
issues.
Increasing the price of highly sweetened items will decrease its sale. That is
to say, in general, expensive items of any kind are less purchased, this
fact should be applied to said issue. This
is compounded more when taken into account that sweet products are mostly consumed by the lower class thus
making it an expensive item will
be highly effective. Correct pronoun usage
that will
For example
, in 2015 Israel's government increased the levies for sweet products, this
change had a great effect on purchases, decreasing them by 25%.
Furthermore
, the income made by increasing the price could be reinvested in the public health
system to deal with the health
problems associated with sugar consumption. In other words
, High blood pressure,diabetes and many other well-being issues are connected to the over ingestion of sugar creating a burden on public health
, thus
the profits from the levies paid by them could be used to treat them when needed. For example
, In Spain the price of cigarettes is extremely high, this
is from the belief that they are unhealthy and in a few years the person who bought them will require treatment and this
is how they pay for it.
To conclude, In my opinion, an increase in prices should be applied, because the increase in taxes will decrease the number of purchases made and it will better the public health
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