A cigarette tax may sound great on the surface: a tax increase of 50 cents per pack will dissuade teenage smokers and produce significant revenue, which could then be used to cure the ills caused by tobacco.
After seeing how little influence his lectures had on women's attitudes towards fashion, he returned to his New York home and began a more aggressive approach to fighting the ills caused by the corset.
The new, harder-edged style also tended to use much darker, more nihilistic and violent lyrics, focusing on anarchist and pacifist themes while emphasizing the grisly effects of nuclear warfare and the social ills caused by capitalism.
He might not be able to cure the ills caused by the alien matter inside their bodies, but he could mitigate the damage it caused.
After the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, he joined the Advisory Council where he spoke out against social ills caused by the war.
Among those aftershocks is a strong national consensus that the social ills caused by divorce are costing federal and state governments huge amounts of money.
But after detailing a long list of domestic and regional ills caused by the United States, he ventured that it was time to retire the past.
It was tempting to stay this way forever; floating, formless, and insulated from all the ills caused by living, simple living.
"I'd say they can't do much better," unless lawmakers address the social ills caused by poverty.
In our city, beset by so many ills caused by the onslaught of modernity, this novel "crime" has immediately been taken as evidence of yet another generation of insults to the senses: inhumanely gigantic buildings that are now heard as well as seen.