The Smoking Gun

Smoking Gun: The Effects of Smoking 1 in 5 adults and teenagers smoke, according to BeTobaccoFree.hhs.gov. This ad about smoking is directed towards them, and features a hand holding a cigarette, with a shadow in the background of a gun with a finger on the trigger. There is smoke coming from the cigarette, as well as the end of the barrel of the shadow gun, as if it has just been fired. The black, bold words, “Smoking Kills” are above a smaller font that reads, “About 106,000 people in the UK die

Gerry Spence, the author of over a dozen books, such as Win Your Case, How to Argue and Win Everytime, The Smoking Gun, and his most recently published book, Police State: How America's Cops Get Away with Murder, was born, raised, and educated in Wyoming. He was born on January 8, 1929 and graduated cum laude from Wyoming Law School in 1952 (“The Spence Law Firm” 2). Since his graduation from law school, Spence has dedicated his life defending the less fortunate, injured, and wrongly accused in the

ENC 1102: Online Course Smoking Gun Essay Smoking Gun Memos within a company serve several purposes. They may be used to report meeting agendas, policies, internal reports, or short proposals. Memos may also be used as a tool to inform staff, management, or executives of important information. Two very good examples of this are the memos written regarding the 1978 Three Mile Island Disaster, and the 1985 Challenger Explosion. Both of these disasters were forewarned by employees and addressed

the hands of a person loading a gun with cigarettes. We can infer that they are the hands of a smoker. The image mainly focuses on the hands, the cigarettes, the gun, and the title “Smoking Kills”. Like the title, the loading of the gun with cigarettes reflects and suggests that smoking kills. Notice that the gun is not immediately seen because the gun and the background are both black, the artist might have done this on purpose so when the audience does notice the gun it would have more of an effect

First National Anti-Smoking Ads “Smoking Kills”. The ethos of this image was created by the Center for Disease Control, in an effort to inform nonsmokers, and smokers about the dangers of smoking, and the tactics tobacco companies are used to persuade people to buy cigarettes. In the image smoking is perceived as brutal to the public health. Also, smoking is the largest cause of preventable death in the world. Smoking in this image associate the cigarettes to bullets in a gun as a way to clarify

Schumacher Nov. 5, 2017 Anti-Smoking Advertisement; “Smoking Kills” 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

about smoking cigarettes. It was only decades ago that people were smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, thinking there would be no consequences. As time progressed, smoking cigarettes was discovered to have harmful, lasting effects that could also lead to major health problems, and possibly death. During this time, countless of anti-smoking advertisements soon appeared, often showing the harmful effects of smoking through grotesque and shocking depictions. However, there are some anti-smoking advertisements

Smoking cigarettes leads to mental diseases and casualties in the United States with more than 480,000 individuals in the United States dying from cigarettes and about 41,000 deaths from second-hand smoking (CDC). After John Rolfe introduced the commercial crop in Virginia in the 1600’s, tobacco became the leading exported crop for the colony. Tobacco’s initial purpose was for “pipe-smoking, chewing, and snuff,” (CNN) and to cure individuals with health issues. With the abundant amount of tobacco

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

Did you know that smoking is the number one cause of death? It is something that can be easily prevented, yet many people fall prey to it. According to a NBC News article from May 2016, almost 15% of United States adults smoke cigarettes. Smoking affects the health in various ways. For instance, it is one of the leading cause of cancer, and it decreases life expectancy by twelve minutes. There are many anti-smoking advertisements, showing the injurious effects of smoking cigarettes through vivid