1. This essay is talking about the tax on sugared beverage. In this essay, the writer talked about the bad effect that sugared beverage could bring to people, such as increasing body weight, poor nutrition and so on. He used evidence to show that high tax could decrease the consumption of sugared beverage.
2. When I first read this essay, i learned the relationship between tax and consumption. Also, i was shocked about the bad effect that too much sugar could bring to since I like sugar beverages. In this essay, writer used several resource to prove that higher tax could decrease the consumption of sugar beverages. In 3r paragraph, he used tobacco product as a example to prove his point. In this example, he used detailed statistics to make reader to know that relationship clearly. Overall, I think the idea of this essay is good since sugar beverage is very popular to our teenagers. This could make us have interest to read this essay.
3. In the 4th paragraph, he assumed that one quarter of the calories consumed from sugared beverage are replaced by other food, the decrease in consumption would lead to an estimated reduction of 8000 calories per person per year - slightly more than 2 pounds each ear for the average person. This assumption is very interesting to me. It give us a directly view of how weight related to sugared beverage. To those fat people, this part could attract them because they really want to lose fat. Following this, he also mentioned that the reduction in calories consumption would decrease the risk of heart disease, this let people understand how important to reduce the sugar consumption.
