Argumentative Essay On Smoke Smoking

Cigarettes are everywhere. These tiny objects that are held between the cusps of ones fingers hold unknown danger. They hold addictive substances and can lead to both immediate and long-term damage. Cigarettes used to be romanticized and glamourized by the media, but modern day campaigns have begun to reveal the truth about their dangerous effects. Through graphic imagery and audio choices, The Real Cost Campaign reaches out to young adults in order to demonstrate these consequences and render an emotional response of fear as well vanity by revealing an ugly side effect of smoking; distortion of skin.

The image itself, is trying to get a reaction from those who smoke and those trying to help someone quit. In the picture, you can clearly see a cigarette pack with cigarettes inside dressed as crayons. This is giving the audience an impression that children see cigarettes as something they could use every day. Not only is it bringing it back to children, the child’s writing is specifically saying just like mommy. ASH is tugging at the emotions of those who smoke who are parents as well and see that what they do in front on their child affects their child in the long run. In addition, under the writing there is a simple sentence that states, “Children whose parents or siblings

One anti-smoking poster shows merely a pair of hands holding a revolver. Instead of bullets the hands are using cigarettes to load the weapon. Listed in small print on one side of the poster are numerous conditions that may be related to smoking, such as fatal heart attacks, emphysema, cancer, and gum disease. The phrase “Smoking kills… so why bother starting” is printed in large font at the bottom of the poster. The message of this poster is clear: Don’t Smoke. The poster is trying to portray that smoking is like holding a loaded weapon. Just as someone would be endangering their life with the loaded gun, they would also be endangering their life with the use of cigarettes. The consequences and health issues associated with smoking can be just as deadly as those of the gun. Ultimately, if someone smokes they are putting their life at risk. Therefore, the logical act is to never start smoking.

Approximately twenty percent of adults in the United States smoke cigarettes, it is this habit which is the number one cause of death that is easily preventable. Anti-smoking advertisements are seen throughout our society, usually showing the harmful effects of tobacco through graphic pictures or other shocking images. The advertisement I chose is a black and white image, showing a young man smoking a cigarette, with the smoke from it forming a gun pointed at his head. Off to the side appear the words, “Kill a cigarette, save a life. Yours.” The advertisement makes use of the three rhetorical appeals of logos, ethos, and pathos through its image and implied meanings. Through this, the image is able to convey a strong sense of danger and bring awareness to the deadliness of smoking.

First let’s talk about the image itself and what it symbolizes. To elaborate, the image has a very dark background which could imply a darkening death that the cigarette leads or a path that should not be traveled on. The feeling most viewers may get from just the background is pain, fearfulness, guilt or failure. Also, the main attraction is, the cigarette. The way it

The image of how many lives affected by smoking can be a difficult one to capture properly. The image of people who are living their lives slowly becoming the worthless smoke of just another cigarette can cause the viewer, perhaps for the first time, to see clearly that the effects of smoking can go further than they first thought. While lighting a cigarette, it is doubtful the average smoker thinks much about the damage done, not only to themselves, but to those around them as well. Your public service message implies that the second hand smoke the average smoker exhales so easily is just as damaging to those nearby as to the person smoking. This may be difficult to imagine, but the fact still stands that with every puff, with every breath out damage can be inadvertently done to a hapless bystander.

In addition, the model feels uncomfortable due to the warning label. The arguer is telling consumers they will feel pleasure by smoking Newport cigarettes. If an individual purchase the cigarettes they will be alive in their relationship similar to the couple in the advertisement. As the advertisement states, "After all, if smoking isn't

I believe that this multi- model poster I am going to be talking about is anti-smoking and reducing pollution. Smoking is very harmful to your health and the environment. Smoking can cause many diseases and can cause air, land and water pollution. Smoking is one of the most preventable disease and pollutant in Australia. So, what’s the point? What’s the point of destroying our environment and our health? What’s the point in smoking, just to get a little bit of satisfaction, when the negatives outweigh the positives? I am going to talking about the different codes such as symbolic, such as colour, setting and objects. Technical codes such as camera angle and written codes.

For example, this photograph of cigarettes loaded into a pistol is communicating that smoking kills and therefore is trying to persuade people to not start and smokers to quit.

The key audience the CHF wanted to target were smokers that are also parents. I believe they did a great job with that showing the innocent little girl with smoke wrapped around her. The secondary audience would be young kids. If a young child see’s this advertisement they will begin to worry about their health, and believe they won’t have a long life. Children have no education on second-hand smoke so they don’t know what’s good for them or bad. I believe the primary audience (parents) don’t really care about their children’s health. They think everything will be okay if they are exposed to just some of it. The author puts an emotional thought on these parents putting in perspective if you keep it up they will die sooner than later.

In the US alone nearly 258 billion cigarettes were sold in 2016. While advertizing that cigarettes are hazardous to your health, smoking has only gone down about 10% since 1997. Tobacco is a drug and it should be treated like one. If a doctor has not prescribed it, it should be considered drug abuse and illegal. Like many other drugs, smoking hurts the user. However, smoking is not only hurting the user, it is also hurting the people around them. In addition to banning tobacco, the entire production of it should be banned as well.

The statistics that represent the number of people who have died from smoking in the U.S are astonishing. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 70.3 million American as young as 12 years old or older reported current use of tobacco. The fact that children as young as 12 are getting access to tobacco in the United States can evidently show us how dangerous it is becoming for the country, if young children are beginning to get access to these dangerous substances that could harm their lives. “Exposure to secondhand smoke is thought to cause about 46,000 deaths from heart disease each year” (American Lung Association), showing us how dangerous smoking can be to civilians. A recent article presented in National Cancer Institute presented a research that one in every five people dies from smoking. Although this point is extremely brief, it demonstrates how one in every five people dying is an extremely terrible cause that results from smoking. It is estimated that 400,000 people die from their own cigarette, whereas non-smokers who die from exposure to smoking is 50,000 (Teen Health). In terms of population size, the figure 400,000 is larger than some countries around the world such as Iceland, Barbados and Greenland, showing how devastating the figure is. It is also believed that the number of people who currently suffer

Smoking is highly addictive. The one teenager that gets peer pressured into smoking will likely smoke for the rest of their life because they wanted to seem cool. Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths in the United States each year. There is no upside to smoking. Cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States. This is nearly one in five deaths. Smoking causes more deaths each year than the following causes combined: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Illegal drug use, Alcohol use, Motor vehicle injuries, and Firearm-related incidents. More than 10 times as many U.S. citizens have died prematurely from cigarette smoking than have died in all the wars fought by the United States. Smokers are 12 to 13 times more likely to die from COPD than nonsmokers.

Given all the warnings and precautions associated with tobacco products, some people still manage to find reasons to use tobacco products. Some might disagree with the position of smoking being banned in public because they figuratively have on blinders which skew their sense of judgement. For instance, the article “Why do young adult smokers continue to smoke despite the health risks” Gough et al. state that, “While there is clear awareness of health issues among our young smokers, a collective view is generated wherein such concerns do not (currently) apply – they are issues for older people...” (216). As suggested, young smokers usually view the problems associated with smoking cigarettes with aging.

Our modern world looks for ways to get out of a stressful situation, or just to put it on pause to find a way to get the stress off our shoulders. People try to find ways to just let the stress leave without fixing the problem. So they go towards a product that won't fix the problem but makes them feel better.