▶ Your Answer :
The author in
the reading passage covers three points concerning that advantages increasing a
special tax on tobacco. The professor in
the lecture states why these are debatable.
First point made
by the listening passage, which is also of same topic, is that young people
will not stop smoking because they can buy it through black markets. Even if government increase the tax on tobacco,
teenagers are egger to buy the tobacco through the black market. Therefore, the
number of teenagers buying it will not be reduced, rather it will be dangerous
because the black markets do not check their identification. This casts doubt on the reading passage’s
assertion that raising the tax on cigarettes makes it less likely that young
people will start smoking.
Another
point made by the listening passage, which is also of same topic, describes that
the raising the tax in the tobacco is not beneficial for restoring the environment. The government do not use the tax for
repairing the environment, rather, planting trees and developing farmland each
year requires a new government budget.
This calls into question the reading passage’s statement that increasing
the tax will make it possible to repair damage inflicted on the environment by
the converted into farmland each year.
Finally, the
speaker in the lecture debunks that the tax getting from buying tobacco will
not be provided to poverties. The rate
of poverty will more swing than before because if government raise the tax, a
lot of jobs regarding tobacco industries will be reduced and many employees will
lose their job. As a result, the number
of poor people needed financial assistance will be increased, so it will not be
better. This contradicts the reading
passage’s claim that the revenue raised by a higher cigarette tax can be used
to reduce poverty. It will have enough
funds to support social welfare programs, which can help poor people by
providing them with financial assistance such as unemployment.
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