Informative Speech on Smoking
Persuasive Speech Outline
General Purpose: To persuade
Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience to stop anybody they know from smoking to prevent damage to their health.
Organizational Pattern: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence.
I. Attention step:
You may wonder what our future generation may look like because of the effects of smoking.
According to a study of teen smokers, young men who smoke may be both compromising their fertility and increasing their risk of fathering a child with genetic abnormalities due to sperm mutations in smokers. Males who smoke have a cough reflex that is slower to react than nonsmoking males. A person’s reflex to cough is a defensive action that prevents foreign material from entering the respiratory tract and helps to remove mucus from the airways.
Women who smoke may also have reduced fertility. One study found that 38% of nonsmoking women conceived in their first cycle compared with 28% of smokers. Smokers were
3.4 times more likely than non-smokers to have taken more than a year to conceive. Since
40% of you are tobacco users and 80% of you have a member at home or a friend who are tobacco users, you should be aware of the long-term effects.
Transition: As young adults, we should try our best to stop people from smoking to prevent an increase in diseases and deaths.
II. Need Step: In the United States, cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable mobility and mortality and results in approximately 430,000 deaths each year.
(www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtm/mm4843a3.htm)
A. There are many harmful ingredients in cigarettes.
(www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/sci-healthtech/
features/health/tobaccotrial/inacigarette.htm)
1. Ammonia
a. Scientists have discovered that ammonia helps you absorb more nicotine, keeping you hooked on smoking.
b. It is a drug in tobacco that makes smoking a powerful addiction.
2. Arsenic: This is a deadly poison that makes your lips burn, and gives you bad breath.
3. Benzene: This is a cancer-causing
General Purpose: To persuade
Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience to stop anybody they know from smoking to prevent damage to their health.
Organizational Pattern: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence.
I. Attention step:
You may wonder what our future generation may look like because of the effects of smoking.
According to a study of teen smokers, young men who smoke may be both compromising their fertility and increasing their risk of fathering a child with genetic abnormalities due to sperm mutations in smokers. Males who smoke have a cough reflex that is slower to react than nonsmoking males. A person’s reflex to cough is a defensive action that prevents foreign material from entering the respiratory tract and helps to remove mucus from the airways.
Women who smoke may also have reduced fertility. One study found that 38% of nonsmoking women conceived in their first cycle compared with 28% of smokers. Smokers were
3.4 times more likely than non-smokers to have taken more than a year to conceive. Since
40% of you are tobacco users and 80% of you have a member at home or a friend who are tobacco users, you should be aware of the long-term effects.
Transition: As young adults, we should try our best to stop people from smoking to prevent an increase in diseases and deaths.
II. Need Step: In the United States, cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable mobility and mortality and results in approximately 430,000 deaths each year.
(www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtm/mm4843a3.htm)
A. There are many harmful ingredients in cigarettes.
(www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/sci-healthtech/
features/health/tobaccotrial/inacigarette.htm)
1. Ammonia
a. Scientists have discovered that ammonia helps you absorb more nicotine, keeping you hooked on smoking.
b. It is a drug in tobacco that makes smoking a powerful addiction.
2. Arsenic: This is a deadly poison that makes your lips burn, and gives you bad breath.
3. Benzene: This is a cancer-causing
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