Persuasive Essay On Smoking

Is smoking a cigarette like aiming a smoking gun to your head? Absolutely, yes! The photo above, has a very powerful message to be shared with people all over the world. The creator of the picture above is, The American Cancer Society. This is an organization that is trying to heighten awareness of the dangers of smoking, the most threatening danger being, cancer. They also promote relays which help raise money for ads and research. The money raised helps to inform people of the dangers smoking and what the negative outcomes of such a habit. This society also helps with finding treatment options. They are helping people cope with the side effects of various cancers or to advise on health insurance. A certain population of people, particularly young people, see smoking as a cool or hip idea to fit in. The goal of this visual argument is to inform people who smoke cigarettes that they should just hold a gun to their heads. The American people should be against nonsmoking because of the feelings you get when smoking, the chemicals that are involved, and how the cigarette will kill like a loaded gun.

Smoking tobacco is probably one of the worst habits humankind has developed. Originating as a tradition of the Native Americans, practiced mostly on special occasions, smoking has gradually become a kind of mass addiction. Due to the efforts of tobacco companies seeking to increase their sales, people started smoking more and more often; the evolution of a more traditional pipe to a cigarette took some time, but eventually tobacco became more affordable and easier to use (you now simply need to light it up, instead of having to always carry a tobacco pouch, stuff a pipe, puff it, and so on). As a result, deaths and health issues connected to tobacco consumption became a worldwide

Smoking kills. Smoking can cause cancer and other bad diseases. Also, companies have made cigarettes in different flavors which are worse than regular cigarettes. People who smoke can be addicted. If you try to stop smoking cold turkey, it will give you headaches and stomachaches. I wanted to research this topic because I have some really close friends and they have family that smoke. Their great-grandpa died from smoking. Also, I noticed a lot of people are dying because they made the bad decision to smoke. Some people started to smoke when they were teenagers. They got addicted to it, and now they can’t stop smoking. I wanted to try to find a way people who smoke can stop. How can countries solve and stop smoking? This problem can be solved and it will be solved because countries are starting to ban smoking from certain places.

You've all probably seen a cigarette before. You've probably even smelled cigarette smoke before. But do you know all the dangers that come with it? Some of you may know a few of the dangers, such as smoking being able to cause lung cancer, but is that all you know? About 400,000 people die every year because of the tobacco in a cigarette. Even though cigarettes are small and have a small amount of tobacco, it is still very deadly. About 65,000 of those 400,000 people die from obstructive lung cancer. About 45 people die every hour! Imagine how many people die every day. And if you do decide to smoke, just know that you typically lose 7 years of your life. You could live 7 years longer if you don't smoke. I know 7 years doesn't seem like a lot, but right now, 7 years is about half of mine and many other children's lives. So tell me, do you think smoking is a good idea?

Tobacco products are ever so threatening in the United States, where according to U.S. Food and Drug administration 25% of the deaths in men and women age 35 to 69 are caused from smoking related diseases (U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 2017). This number was even higher among substance abusers and people with mental health problems (Bandiera, Anteneh, Le, Delucchi, & Guydish, 2015, p.1). Even if someone does not die from smoking cigarettes they are at increased risk of contracting an otherwise preventable disease. Due to an exponentially growing amount of people becoming affected with diseases related to tobacco use, the United States government were forced to take action to try and stop the progression of these horrible diseases. These actions have come to no avail, since people who are addicted to cigarettes are not going to stop buying them just because of a price increase. Banning the production and distribution of tobacco products will contribute to a

Drifting tobacco smoke can trigger asthma attacks, bronchial infections, and other serious health problems in nonsmokers. For the 100 million Americans who have asthma, chronic bronchitis, chronic sinusitis, emphysema, or other breathing related conditions, it makes them especially susceptible to secondhand tobacco smoke.

Around 80,000 to 100,000 children worldwide start smoking every day, and almost half of those children live in Asia. It's estimated that nearly 4.5 million United States youth are smokers, and if this current pattern persists, about 6.4 tobacco-using children will die prematurely from a smoking-related disease. From those 80,000 to 100,000 children about 50% of them will continue smoking for another decade or two. These kids help make up the 90% of smokers that started before age 21. The youth that has and will start smoking will have a harder time quitting, just as long-time smokers.

Cigarettes have been around since the late 1800’s. Over that time, they have been perceived as this trend setting drug that will make you super cool. Their advertisements convince the buyers that they would make you more appealing to the other sex, more interesting, and a better person if you would start smoking, and that for the most part has kept up to this day. However, thankfully to awareness advertisements we have become more informed on how dangerous cigarettes really are.

Smoking has a large impact amongst citizens in the United States, with a little less than 20% of the population smoking. Smoking, in the United States, is the number one cause of easily preventable deaths. Seeing these alarming deaths people decided they would make scary and startling advertisements to get the point across. These ads were taking people's breath away, they were seeing the effects of smoking in a light they hadn’t previously thought about. The ad I chose to analyse has a man holding a cigarette between his middle and index finger while an above light source illuminates the shape of a gun behind the cigarette, and if you look close you can see that the man's index finger is holding the trigger of said gun to further the statement being made. This image uses the three modes of persuasion to caution viewers to not begin or continue smoking.

Anti-smoking campaigns have been around since the 1960s because the dangers of smoking became more relevant and was brought to the public. This ultimately created controversy among all Americans. Actions brought forth by the government were very beneficial, but has not come close to completely ending smoking. The visual image seen on the first page of this document conveys the argument that smoking cigarettes, or any type of tobacco, will have a declining effect on one’s future by limiting their life expectancy. Although there is no clear location of where and when the image was produced, one might believe that it was found in a magazine. The purpose of this visual is that smoking will eventually kill a consistent consumer. The image is made by an anti-smoking advertisement who used a very dramatic format which will be able to impact people on a more emotional level. The development of the image is to scare and intimidate not only people who are starting to smoke but also existing smokers. Also, nonsmokers want the smokers they know to quit because they care about their well-being. This advertisement was also created for the clear purpose that the leaders of the community don’t want these products, that have been proven to be detrimental to citizens’ health, to be used.

Most people in society today know about tobacco and its negative effects on the human body, yet tobacco is still used and accepted in pop culture. Big name tobacco companies are causing health problems for smokers and even non-smokers. Those same companies are also targeting the youth to get them hooked on the drug nicotine found in tobacco. I believe that tobacco has very little to benefit from and should be outlawed in the United States due to health issues it brings, addictiveness, and the targeting of youth who is not able to purchase tobacco legally.

Her lungs blackened. Her body still. Her chest that once rose with each steady breath lay leveled motionless. Her heart stopped. The fate of the inevitable thing called death was determined by that single cigarette she decided to slip in between her lips which became an unrelenting need. Cigarette smoking has become the number one cause of preventable diseases and deaths in the United States. While many are aware of that fact, more than 45 million Americans still participate in the activity of smoking. Approximately 480,000 deaths occur annually as an aftermath from smoking—meaning 1 in every 5 deaths (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Furthermore, a heavy smoker, smoking an average of 20 cigarettes to a pack each day, dies 13

While baby boomers and a few generations before are hooked on cigarettes millennials and generation Z have a whole new addiction. While tobacco cigarettes used to be something that was ‘cool’ to do, the new age version of this is vaping. Over time our technology has increased and scientists came up with an alternate solution to cigarette smokers addictions. Scientists have found a way to infuse nicotine into flavored oil (AKA e-juice) and use an atomizer to heat that to its boiling point which creates a flavored vapor with nicotine in it. Although this is a much healthier alternative to smoking cigarettes, there are definitelty some health risks that this new product presents.Scientists created an alternative, and with a lack of research or attention to research in media, many teens have turned to vaping. Vaping and using e-cigarettes is harmful to your body in many ways. Vaping includes risk of other lung issues, exploding atomizers can risk lives, and faulty vapes are extremely dangerous. THey also include risks of addiction to nicotine, and extremely harmful chemicals you are taking into your body.

In the United States, 480,000 people die each year from the most preventable cause of death in the nation; cigarette use (CDC par. 1). Most people who read this piece of information ask themselves the same question. Why are people still smoking today knowing that it could ultimately lead to death? Smoking is a habit that develops are easily as any other habit, but many factors make it one of the most difficult habits or addictions to break. People smoke because they become biologically addicted to it, they are peer pressured into doing so, and/or it helps them cope emotionally.

For thousands of years now, cigarettes have been used by a variety of people. The majority of people who smoke cigarettes know of the consequences that come with smoking; they are aware of the potential danger they are causing to themselves and the people around them. As the government, you may encounter economic benefits when people buy cigarette packs; however, these economic advantages get outweighed by the disadvantages that also come included. I believe that as the government, you should ban cigarettes in the United States, in order to prevent economic issues, littering, and prevent your people from getting lung cancer.