Cigarettes are bad for several different reasons. They can lead to lung cancer, they can lead to death, and they are also very expensive. They cause up to, and sometimes more than, 480,000 deaths per year, just in the United States. The leading cause of death, in most cases, is circulatory or cardiovascular disease. In contrast, if you did a survey that asked what causes people to die because of smoking, most people would say "Smoking causes lung cancer, which leads to death." Smoking cigarettes
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Topic: Smoking General Purpose: To persuade my audience about the negative effects on smoking Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience about the negative effects through education Thesis: There is no doubt that smoking cigarettes is an extremely harmful habit rooted in our culture that needs to be ended. Introduction I. Attention Getter: Have you ever had to watch your loved one that you know suffer or die from smoking? When I was just eight years old I witnessed my great-grandma die from
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There is a vast difference between the cigarette commercials of the 1980's and the anti-tobacco Truth ads of today. We were sold a lie, and now many have paid the price with their health and their life. Should it be the responsibility of the tobacco industry to care for these people who have life threating illnesses caused by their products? Should they also handle the burial of the individuals who die as a result of tobacco usage? In this industry, someone has to look out of the consumers that are
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Smoke? I am sure that you know that smoking harms your body. Then why do you continue smoking? Maybe you do it because you haven’t really become conscious about all the effects that smoking has. There are a lot of reasons why you shouldn’t smoke. Some of them are that smoking affects your health, that you spend a lot of money on cigarettes, and that when you smoke you are not respecting people around you. The first reason why you shouldn’t smoke is that smoking affects your health. If you smoke, your
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The Truth about the Economy of Cigarettes Christopher Tucker Central Penn College “The Truth about the Economy of Cigarettes” The topic of the production, manufacturing, taxation, advertising, and laws of the tobacco industry in the United States has always been, and will always remain, one of the most controversial industries in the United States of America. It is an industry where spokespeople from both sides have blatantly lied to the American public in order to further achieve their goals
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Introduction Philip Morris USA is the leading cigarette manufacturer in the United States and boasts the highest in revenues, income and market share than all other cigarette manufacturers. Philip Morris USA began its inception more than 150 years ago selling tobacco and ready-made cigarettes in London, England (Philip Morris, 2011). In 2004, Western Michigan University honored Philip Morris USA as the employer of the year. Every year since 1991, Western Michigan University honors a major employer
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raised to quickly distinguish their importance. Everyone knows cigarettes are unreasonable. People seldom realize the cost of smoking on their livelihood and health and take for granted, money as the only issue. The “Real Cost” ad is incredibly effective at getting the message across and compared to other anti-smoking ads, it takes a creative approach in a in a non-shocking way. This advertisement reveals to people the expense of smoking doesn't always involve money and will eventually become costly
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Smoking Bans Name School Smoking Ban Smoking refers to the tasting or inhaling smoke from tobacco products after burning them. Smoking is a practice that is common among all races and ethnic groups from all over the world(Brannon & Feist, 2010). Often, the phenomenon is practiced as a ritual in other regions of the world. Recently, it has been established that many young people in their teens and early adulthood smoke in an increasing trend. The most common form
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Every day in America, a teenager becomes addicted to the most preventable cause of death, Smoking tobacco. Some may do it just because it seems cool, or because they want to fit in. However, they are totally unaware of the dangers of smoking tobacco because of the poor safety warnings on the back of every deadly carton. According to U.S. Senate of Massachusetts Edward M. Kennedy,” Nationally, cigarettes kill well over four hundred thousand people each year.” I strongly suggest that tobacco
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