Persuasive Essay On Public Health Campaign
Public Health Campaign The topic of my public health campaign is cigarette smoking. So often, our children are exposed to smoking whether it’s through their home, friends or environment. Society even deems smoking as “cool” and that draws more people to start smoking. The youngest smokers have the idea that I won’t be affected because I’m young and nothing will happen to me. Little do they know that it only takes 1 cigarette to start an addiction. Cigarettes contain the compound nicotine which is responsible for releasing dopamine in the brain. Dopamine is a “pleasure molecule” which makes people who smoke feel good making it exponentially more difficult to quit. On top of the addiction, there are so many dangers to smoking. I will start off
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My campaign will take place in schools all over the country and can include elementary, middle, and high schools. My campaign will have lecturers to educate the students about how smoking damages the body and victims of smoking-related illnesses to dramatize the damage caused to individuals. Lecturing students this way will be much more effective because they will see damage with their eyes and not just listen to a lecture through their ears. Hearing a victim talk about how smoking changed their lives will hopefully help draw students away from the idea of smoking. Additionally, I want people to be able to see the organ damage caused by smoking first hand. To do this, I would have props of lungs sent to schools displaying how a smoker’s lungs look like compared to a nonsmoker’s. Further, I would have the schools put up posters throughout the building with facts about smoking and images of damage that smoking causes. This way, the dangers of smoking will be fresh in their mind during the week of the event and they will think about it constantly. Hopefully, the dangers and damage of smoking they saw will be imprinted in their brain so that the day they are asked to try a cigarette, they decline. If they do start smoking or have already been smoking, hopefully those students will imagine the damage they are causing to their bodies. If any students are being
My campaign will take place in schools all over the country and can include elementary, middle, and high schools. My campaign will have lecturers to educate the students about how smoking damages the body and victims of smoking-related illnesses to dramatize the damage caused to individuals. Lecturing students this way will be much more effective because they will see damage with their eyes and not just listen to a lecture through their ears. Hearing a victim talk about how smoking changed their lives will hopefully help draw students away from the idea of smoking. Additionally, I want people to be able to see the organ damage caused by smoking first hand. To do this, I would have props of lungs sent to schools displaying how a smoker’s lungs look like compared to a nonsmoker’s. Further, I would have the schools put up posters throughout the building with facts about smoking and images of damage that smoking causes. This way, the dangers of smoking will be fresh in their mind during the week of the event and they will think about it constantly. Hopefully, the dangers and damage of smoking they saw will be imprinted in their brain so that the day they are asked to try a cigarette, they decline. If they do start smoking or have already been smoking, hopefully those students will imagine the damage they are causing to their bodies. If any students are being