Receiving her PH.D. from Harvard Medical School, Dr. Anna Mazzucco now conducts post- doctoral research at the National Cancer Institute. She states that form nearly fifty years now we have learned many new things about tobacco. The effects and problems that it brings us such as birth defects, heart disease, stroke, and rheumatoid arthritis to name a few. In this article she explores all the reasons why people shouldn't smoke and the evolution of cigarettes. Dr. Mazzucco has supported claim on the problems and health risks that smoking causes.

Smoking or tobacco use has been part of history for centuries, and in the last fifty years we have become exceptionally savvy on the topic. Dr. Mazzucco uses rhetoric and develops a sense of urgency by stating that it's the …show more content…
She plays on emotions by proclaiming that there are so many people dying in this world because of smoking, yet we still do it. Advertisements have been a huge part in the tobacco industry and also a huge part against it just like any other business but how do these tobacco ads change over time? Why have they gone from encouraging to discouraging? Dr. Mazzucco, being very sophisticated in healthcare knows the extreme problems that smoking will cause you, and why ads and cigarettes have evolved. She starts off with some of the big factors that come into play when you smoke. She gives a whole list of problems that smoking causes right in the beginning to catch the reader's attention and show ethos. In better words or terms, she knows what she is talking about. One of the tragedies she mentions in the article is smoking while you are pregnant. Not only is it not fair to the child because of the birth defected life, it may have to live, but also she states, “Exposure to tobacco smoke while in the womb and smoking in the teenage years have both been shown to cause long-term problems regarding brain development.” That quote basically