How To Read PSA Manipulation

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.

PSAs are not worth the cost. In the passage, PSAs: Not Worth the Cost, states "Moralist say that the subject matter of PSAs is something that parents and guardians should be teaching children." I think its something their parents should teach their child about inappropriate and illegal things because their parents are someone they can trust and not someone they don't know. Its important to learn from somebody you trust.

The visual puts the number of deaths caused by smoking in the perspective by showing a weapon that people consider more dangerous. The average deaths in the United States of America, each year, from the use of guns is over 100,000 people. However, the use of cigarettes and similar tobacco products causes over 500,000 deaths in the United States, 50,000 of which have never directly smoked. The campaign is showing how there is not just one bullet because the person directly smoking is not the only one affected. Every person who comes into contact with the second hand smoke produced by the smoker is also negatively affected.

The message quickly lets the viewer know that their habit cost more than just a few dollars and their personal health. It can also affect the health of people who have never smoked. This lack of empathy can stem, not from malice, but from

While emotional persuasion states that people who are already smokers have fell into the ruts of nicotine and need to break free before significant damage is done to their bodies. The picture also is trying to show a way to shock the audience. Most people know if a fish bites a hook it gets pulled out of the water with a fishing rod. Showing the cigarette being hooked depicts that people can be taken away just like the fish can. The fish smoking the cigarette is a very objective picture, it screams if you get hooked on smoking there are consequences and you could be taken away, just like a fish biting a hook in the water, but on the same token it is also trying to draw on people’s emotions.

Smoking continues to be an increasing problem in both the United States and around the world. Advertisements of many types continue to aid in lowering the use of cigarettes by teenagers. In this advertisement, published by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), many rhetorical devices are used to help appeal to the audience’s senses, understanding, and perception on smoking cigarettes. Using a young woman in the advertisement shifts the focus towards teenagers that smoke cigarettes, have thought about smoking, or have been around others that do smoke. With the incorporation of the FDA’s “The Real Cost” campaign logo, facts about the outcome of smoking, and the photograph of the young girl's face, this advertisement serves the purpose of grabbing the attention of teenagers that use cigarettes and warns them of the negative outcomes of smoking by using certain appeals: ethos, pathos, and logos.

In many scenario, manipulation often are consider harmful and deceiving to the human mind. It has been demonstration as a bad moral in human nature. An abutments individual suffer financial, personality influence and in result of an unhealthy health concern. Many have argue the intent of manipulation of destroying personalities by persuasive thought believing

Cigarettes are the number one cause of preventable death. In “Tobacco, A Silent Killer” by Dr. Irtaza Iqbal Khan, Consultant Pulmonologist and Critical Care Physician at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, writes about the danger of smoking to our health and makes the argument that it is everybody’s responsibility to help smokers know about and prevent smoking risks. Khan utilizes three rhetorical appeals by using emotions to appeal to the reader’s weaknesses, building credibility with statistics to support his argument, and building a sustained metaphor. In this article, Khan addresses both smokers and non-smokers.

As the PSAC is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year I think we should look back at many of the accomplishments. The PSAC has achieved many gains for its members including safer working conditions, better wages, equal pay for work of equal value, benefit coverage for same-sex partners, and rights for disabled workers. While priorities of the PSAC tend to shift according to the priority concerns of the membership, and according to changes in the workplace and the labor force they also tend to stay the same. The core roots of the PSAC and of labor unions in general are that workers deserve a say in the conditions of their labour. In my view, while although maybe not new to some, one element I have not heard much of is the affordability of onsite quality childcare and flexible work arrangements in the workplace. This element would be a relevant issue for the young in our membership and help in securing their involvement.

My PRPSA results came out to be 97, which indicates I have “Low Anxiety”. I feel like I need the most improvement on my voice volume and making eye contact, and how I sometimes like to rush my speech. Once I get comfortable my voice tends to go lower. I always catch myself staring off into space rather than staring and making eye contact with my audience. And in the beginning or towards the end of my speech I always tend to rush my words so my clarity isn’t always

Manipulation makes it easier to persuade someone into something that could be wrong. For example, if you have ever had a friend offer you drugs they would try to appeal to your emotions using words like “It’ll make you feel good.” or “everyone is doing it.” Your subconscious tells you that you want to feel good or accepted so it’s better to take the drugs and get on with it. The same goes for our society. We want to feel good about the things we do in everyday life so we talk ourselves up targeting that feel good

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

Starting off we see emphasis on a marred woman holding a cigarette, along with the alarming text “Warning” at the top of the ad. “When you smoke it shows” is also clear, due to the large text that was used to display it. Placement of such content like this incites the reader to infer that the propaganda is trying to recommend you to not yield to cigarettes. Smoke is repeated throughout the ad many times to keep reminding the audience that’s related

This advertisement was clearly designed to conjure a response from its audience, which are both smokers and non-smokers alike. In the non-smoking audience, the image will either increase their distaste of smoking and its negative health effects, or they will be unconcerned because it has little or no effect on them or their lives. The audience it would appeal most to is the people who vehemently oppose cigarettes and smoking. People like this may believe that anti-smoking ads will reach smokers and somehow convince them to quit, but this is probably not the case. To smokers, the image will be a reminder of the harm they are doing to their bodies. But for the most part, they will likely be indifferent to the image because they already know it’s bad for their health, and will continue to smoke because they are either addicted or are just apathetic to the situation. They may even find ads such as this obnoxious and unoriginal because they feel as if it’s repetitive and a personal attack on them and their views and habits. Because smoking is seen as such a bad thing in U.S. society, they may detach themselves from advertisements that contradict what they believe is okay.

Eating fast food too often can make one fat. Driving drunk greatly increases one's chances of ending up imprisoned, disfigured, or dead. Smoking is bad for one's health and is potentially lethal. Just because a particular activity is proven to be dangerous, does not always guarantee that the public will listen. Warning people by appealing to their logic and reasoning is a strategy that rarely works, because humans are experts and rationalizing and justifying their behaviors, no matter how illogical or destructive they might be. People have known about the dangers of tobacco smoking for decades, yet the number of smokers, although steadily shrinking, is still extremely high worldwide. Sometimes an appeal must be made to people's emotions and feelings instead, and no emotion is as primal and universal as fear. The Tobacco Use Prevention Program (TUPP) organization decided to do just that – if you cannot educate them with logic, threaten something they value the most.