Persuasive Speech About Secondhand Smoke

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

The first rhetorical appeal, logos, is used in this image. The primary idea is that smoking is bad for your health. In most countries today, this is common knowledge. This is especially true in Northern American culture, as smoking is generally seen as damaging and

When the video shows small children holding a cigerette and asking for a lighter to light their cigarette, the author is using pathos to appeal to the audience emotions. Smoking is known to cause many illnesses; so if you were to see a child smoking, it might make you sad, worried or even frustrated. Children are often thought of as pure and inosent and

Along with the benefits listed above, nicotine is a substance that can be harmful when

Another woman brings up to a little girl how smoking can increase your risk of aging. This advertisement shows logos into play. Logos is shown when it is stating the reasoning on why children should not start smoking. Pathos is also shown when the adults state the reason why one should not pick up a cigarette. The different kind of effects creates a sense of fear and avoidance of the product.

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

Overall the advertisers who created this advertisement did a very good job. Through the use of an optical illusion, use of text and the use of negative space it sold the abstract emotion of “parental guilt” effectively. Many parents of young children who see this will look at it and will feel guilty about smoking and will most likely cause them to kick their bad habit of smoking for the sake of their children. Many people don’t like to kick their bad habits because they don’t have a strong reason to, they typically always need someone important to do it for and this advertisement shows parents of young children that your child is your biggest reason you should quit smoking, a child the most important person in a parent’s life and they would be able to do anything to protect

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.

The visual text, Your Smoking Harms Your Child, created by the NHS, is very effective in describing the cost of smoking around a child. In this visual text, the NHS is trying to get across that secondhand smoke is harmful to those around you. Secondhand smoke is very harmful to anyone. In this visual text, all of the image, except for the boy's eyes, is grey. His eyes really pop out in this image, showing how scared he is.

In my PSA, it shows how people are smoking in a group together who are bigger than the non-smokers and it shows a tagline saying " don't kill yourself and us too. " The PSA is assuming if you are a smoker or anywhere near a smoker you are going to die. In real life, people are manipulated as well because on the cigarette boxes there is always a print PSA showing the effects of smoking. This is manipulation because it is telling you that you will get harmed if you smoke. It also does not state how long the person has been smoking for making the viewer assume that the first time he smoked he got bad consequences.

Cohen, E. L., Shumate, M. D., & Gold, A. (2007). Original: anti-smoking media campaign messages: theory and practice. Health Communication, 22(2), 91-102.

                   Have you ever had any trouble breathing in your life? No? Well consider yourself lucky. Breathing is an essential thing to life. You don’t breathe, you don’t live. That’s just the way it is. When you breathe in, the lungs take that oxygen and release the carbon dioxide as a waste product into the atmosphere. This is what keeps the body regulated and gets the metabolism going. The process of aspiration is an ongoing phenomenon. Everyone is constantly breathing in and out because our lungs can only take in so much oxygen. We constantly breathe more and more to live.

Hi everyone. According to therealcost.com, smoking kills more than 480,000 people a year. That is equivalent to the population of New Orleans. That also means that smoking causes one in five deaths. In my 18 years, I have known a few life-long smokers so I have seen the negative effects first hand. Today I will be discussing why you should stop smoking cigarettes. First, I will explain the many health risks, then I will talk about how it alters your appearance, and finally I will explain how it affects those around you.

than nonsmoking males. A person’s reflex to cough is a defensive action that prevents foreign

It is estimated that 36.5 million adults smoke in the United States of America (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention B). A cigarette contains 7,000 chemicals and 70 of those can cause cancer (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention B). When someone decides to smoke a cigarette, they are not only choosing to allow those toxins into their body but are imposing all those same toxins on anyone around them. Secondhand smoke is the combination of smoke from the burning end of a cigarette and the smoke breathed out by smokers and is considered more dangerous then smoking the cigarette (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention B). Every year 480,000 people in the United States of America die because of cigarette smoking, which is the leading cause of preventable disease and death. Why has this deadly habit become such a casual part of the American life? This habit is not only harmful to the person smoking, but is hurting everyone around them. It may be their decision to smoke and cause damage to their own bodies but when they decide to smoke in public they are infringing on the rights of everyone around them right to protect their health. Smoking should be made illegal because it is not only harmful to the smokers but also causes harm to fetuses in utero, developing children and any other adults who may breathe that smoke in.