Anti Smoking Commercial

Alondra Mendoza
Professor Pilarski
ENC 1101
15 October 2013
Anti-Smoking
Nowadays smoking is everywhere, and spreading rather fast. Especially teenagers under that age of eighteen. It’s rather sad that more and more teen’s everyday smokes their first cigarette, or became accustomed to smoking daily. But beside the number of smoker’s increasing daily, so has anti-smoking advertisements. You now see them everywhere, and they have become more gruesome over the past years to really show you what it does to your body. For my essay I decided to write about a commercial; an anti-smoking commercial to be exact. There are a lot of good ads, and commercials I found that were quite interesting, but the commercial that stood out the most was
They are living with a defibrillator, and nasty side effects from smoking. I’ll describe a more visual image of the commercial I chose; one of the individuals commercial was Terrie, It starts of with a picture of a beautiful young lady, in the background you hear Terrie introducing herself she says, “ I’m Terrie and I use to be a smoker”. The scene then changes to Terrie at age 51, she have been ripped of all her beauty, she is bald and covering a hole in her throat. She then proceeds by saying “ She wants to give you tips about getting in the morning”. Terrie then puts on teeth, then a wig, then her hands free device that covers the hole in her throat, after that she puts on a scarf to cover up and says, “Now you are ready for the day” as the commercial comes to an end. Terrie smoked most of her life she started when she was 13, and by the age of 17 she was smoking daily. By the time she was forty
All that tobacco usage leads to diseases, “Smoking causes cancer, heart disease, and lung disease”(CDC). If that wasn’t already scare, for every five deaths in the United States smoking causes one. When you see in that perspective, they might want to think about smoking another cigarette. But if you try and fail to quit it’s fine, because more than half the people who try to quit their first time fail. And over seventy percent of individuals who are smoking now want to quit. That’s a great benefit for quitting smoking as well, “Quitting smoking before the age of 40 reduces the risk of dying from smoking-related disease by about 90%”(qtd.in CDC). Can you believe that by 90%, that is quite a lot? But if they do continue smoking, that is really up to them but they better know that if you continue smoking or just beginning to smoke you shorten you’re life by ten