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

The diagram illustrates the change in families spending weekly salary in a country in 1968 and 2018. As is shown clearly in the graph, it is apparent that

food

accounts for the largest consumption of families in 1968, whereas leisure became the most predominant place of families’ expenditure in 2018. In 1968,

food

spending made up 35% of the total income usage; the figures for housing and clothing and footwear were relatively lower, both at 10%;

By contrast

, the rest of the categories were lower than 20% and the fuel and power were the lowest, with only around 7%. In 2018, the consumption proportion of

food

had witnessed a dramatic decrease from 35% to 17%, a contrary trend could be noticed when we examined the types like housing, transport and leisure, the surge of leisure was more than twice that it was in 1968.

Moreover

, clothing and footwear, fuel and power and personal goods showed a similar trend to

food

.

Finally

, the household goods remained unchanged over these 50 years.