Topic: Smoking General Purpose: To persuade my audience about the negative effects on smoking Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience about the negative effects through education Thesis: There is no doubt that smoking cigarettes is an extremely harmful habit rooted in our culture that needs to be ended. Introduction I. Attention Getter: Have you ever had to watch your loved one that you know suffer or die from smoking? When I was just eight years old I witnessed my great-grandma die from
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Smoking cigarettes is such a taboo thing now a days. During the 1950’s smoking was completely normalized and was even broadcasted. This may be because there was not the research necessary to tell smokers why it is unhealthy. For the first commercial, commercial 1, it is a simple 60 second, black and white advertisement promoting “Camel” cigarettes. In this commercial, the company is exhibiting doctors smoking their cigarettes to appeal to their audience. Their audience includes doctors, smokers,
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and Effect Essay 4/29/14 The Effects of Cigarette Smoking There has been advertisement after advertisement over the years telling of the dangers of cigarette smoking causing death. As serious as this notion of facing grave illness or death seems, that has not seemed to be an adequate reason to quit still. People for whatever the reasons seem to have the ability to insulate themselves from the obvious facts that are shown to them. This essay intends to offer some other effects of cigarette smoking
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against cigarette smoking communicating that this vice causes death. But a threat to health doesn’t seem to be a good reason for quitting anymore. People somehow block themselves and ignore all the information that is given to them. The purpose of this essay is to discuss three effects of cigarette smoking, besides the broadly mentioned possibility of developing cancer or dying, which are the smell of smoke, the stained teeth, and the cost of doing it. The first effect of cigarette smoking, and probably
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Smoking: The truth is written on the box COM/156 Smoking: The truth is written on the box How many of you have ever looked at the outside of a pack of cigarettes? You probably noticed there is a surgeon’s warning written on it stating that smoking is a hazard risk. A written statement that smoking is harmful, yet you see people huddled up outside work smoking or out on the drive with cigarette smoke coming out their car windows. Would it be a surprise that secondhand smoke is now
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Economics Report and Demand & Supply curve Of cigarettes in Australia Introduction: Recently, there has been a new trend in the tobacco industry in Australian society due to the increased prices of cigarettes, mainly for the reason that “with more than 3.1 million people still smoking today, tobacco still being the leading cause of death by a wide margin… “ (Scollo & Winstanley, p.xiii, 2008). Therefore, this report will illustrate the market structure of Australia tobacco industry, and
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Everyday Health Health Effects of Smoking By Dennis Thompson, Jr. | Medically reviewed by Pat F. Bass III, MD, MPH You know smoking is bad for you, but do you know what this dangerous habit does to your body and to nonsmokers who inhale secondhand smoke? Cigarette smoking has disastrous consequences: It damages just about every organ of the body and leads to the general deterioration of the smoker's health. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that cigarette smoking is responsible for nearly one of
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Why I’m Against the Statewide Smoking Ban By: Michael Spatz Imagine you walk into a restaurant and are seated in the smoking area. Knowing that this bothers you, you choose to sit there anyway. A smoker comes in, sits down in the booth next to you and lights up. Believe it or not, this is a common situation that happens for a lot of people. What would you do? Michael Spatz claims that “a statewide smoking ban is not what the state of Kansas needs right now.” (211.) I both agree and disagree with
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Thirdhand Smoke………………………………………………………………….. V. EFFECTS OF SECONDHAND SMOKE……………………………………………. A. Cancers…………………………………………………………………………… 1. LungCancer………………………………………………………………….. 2. Breast Cancer ……………………………………………………………….. B. Effects in Cardiovascular System………………………………………………… 1. Coronary Heart Disease……………………………………………………… 2. Stroke…………………………………………………………………………. 3. Other Heart Disease………………………………………………………….. C. Effects in Respiratory System…………………………………………………….. 1
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happy to go on talking about the disadvantages of smoking cigarette. Before that we should know WHAT ARE IN CIGARETTE? (SLIDE 6) The effects of smoking on human health are serious and in many cases, deadly. Cigarettes, cigars, and spit and pipe tobacco are made from dried tobacco leaves, as well as ingredients added for flavor and other reasons. Many substances are added to cigarettes by manufacturers to enhance the flavor or to make smoking more pleasant. Some of the compounds found in tobacco
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