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Sophie,Class1 Maegan Kearns 6/3/2012 Higher Taxes on Unhealthy Food and Harmful Products for a Healthier Society Opening the mouth, my nephew can be seen many black teeth with holes. A rule can be even used to measure the width of gap between teeth. Whenever you check his pocket, you can find some toffees there. He might promise anything after being shown some toffees. My boy classmates always enjoy gathering to smoke with proud and smiling expressions. Narrowing their eyes, occasionally blowing some smoke rings, they seem to be in the seventh heaven. I believe there’re many other addicts in unhealthy items though they are clear about their damages. To some extent, it’s because they can afford those unhealthy and harmful products. I strongly suggest that higher taxes on unhealthy and harmful goods should be used to help discourage consumption for a healthier society because it can protect our health, help people quit bad behaviors and pay for health care reform. First of all, higher taxes on unhealthy food and harmful products can protect people’s health. More and more people have suffered from unsound food and products. Many people are addicted in junk food, soft drink and smoking; however, those bad behaviors cause numerous diseases. For example, “more than 4,000 chemicals found in cigarettes, in which 200 are poisonous and 43 other types can cause such diseases as lung cancer, heart disease and high blood pressure, etc” (Dangers and Smoking Effect). Do you know how many people die of smoking, alcohol and drug abuse every year? Undoubtedly, the producers never tell us their products are not healthy as they list various chemical names on the packages. Our former president, Mao Zedong, suffers from tracheitis and pulmonary heart disease on account of smoking. A medical expert, Gary Pearson, pointed in his article that the heart can’t function as it should because of too much cholesterol absorbed in the body as an impact of junk food on health. “Being