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Persuasive Speech Smoking

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Smoking Kills

General Purpose: To persuade

Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to write their senator and urge him/her to increase anti-smoking campaign funds.

Central Idea: Smoking is injurious to human health, hence, stricter/inclusive clean indoor air policy should be adequately enforced.

Introduction:
How many of you have seen your parent’s or grandparent’s lifespan getting cut short because of bad choices as a result of addiction to smoking? You are not alone.I had seen my grandpa’s plight after his lung collapsed and was bedridden for six months before he passed away.
According to World Health Organization, “The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced, killing …show more content…

b) Raise minimum age
Raising minimum wage of purchase to 21 would reduce consumption by 14.6% among 15-17 years old.

c) Full implementation of pre-existing smoke-free indoor policies
When smoke-free indoor air policies are fully implemented in workplaces across the country, 725000 current smokers are projected to quit for good.
At the local level, full implementation of Chapter 6-331: Smoke-free Air Law adopted by City of Harrisburg would also prevent city residents from getting exposed to secondhand smoke in public places when enforced strictly. Unfortunately, the law still permits smoking in bars, enclosed bar areas of restaurants, and casinos.

2. Increasing anti-smoking funding campaigns.
According to CDC, the tobacco industry spends about $8.8 billion annually to market their product while anti-smoking awareness campaign only gets about 54 million for awareness campaigns. This funding is relatively smaller than what the industry spends.
CDC further claims, 100,000 Americans kick the habit of smoking by seeing the graphic anti-smoking campaign advertisements.

Now that you know how to protect others from smoking let us imagine what it would be like to live in the smoke-free environment.

Visualization

If effective tobacco control is strictly implemented:

1. Lowers the incidents of lung and throat cancer.
Between 2005

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