Smoking Cigarettes - Outline

“Smoking Cigarettes isn’t the Solution” I. INTRODUCTION: A. Attention: What happens when you let smoking tobacco become an addiction? How can it affect you and relatives around you? Why should you quit smoking? B. Purpose: Today I will discuss with you the impacts smoking tobacco products can have on you and how what your habit can’t affect your family members. C. Central Idea: People should quit smoking and using tobacco. D. Preview of Main Points: 1. Main Point: Need: How smoking cigarettes becomes an addiction and in the end can lead to health issues and death.
2. Main Point: Satisfaction: How we can decrease the number of people smoking
3. Main Point: Visualization: What the world would look like if people did stop smoking
4. Main Point: Action: What people can do to stop smoking cigarettes. TRANSITION STATEMENT AND SIGNPOST: As most of you may already know, smoking cigarettes, a type of tobacco product, is very addictive. II. BODY A. Main Point: Need: How smoking cigarettes becomes an addiction and in the end can lead to health issues and death. 1. Sub-Point: Cigarettes have a addictive substance in them called Nicotine. They also contain flavorful additives.
a. About 23% of men and 18% of women smoke in the USA.
2. Sub-Point: The effects of cigarettes on your health.
a. Cigarettes account for approximately 440,000 deaths every year
b. In most cases of new smokers, when that person smokes 3-4 cigarettes a day, they tend to keep that addiction over the next 30-40 years of their lives.
3. Sub-Point: Results of smoking
a. Smoking cigarettes increases the chance of heart disease, cancer and stroke
b.The chance of getting lung cancer in men goes up nearly 23 times and in women goes up to 13 times as compared to non smokers.
c. Also the average smoker spends around 1,000 to 1,500 dollars a year buying cigarettes.

TRANSITION STATEMENT AND SIGNPOST: Tobacco Control Policies are at the heart of preventing and reducing the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S.

B. Main Point: Satisfaction: How we can decrease the number of people smoking. 1. Sub-point: In first half of 2009, Congress gave FDA authority to regulate tobacco products and also increased federal cigarette tax. a. FDA now regulates how tobacco companies can market, manufacture, and sell their deadly goods. b. Congress increased the Federal Tobacco Tax by an additional 62 cents. This will especially help curb youth smoking rates. 2. Sub-point: Clean Indoor Air Act: regulates and controls smoking in certain public places and workplaces. a. Smoke Free Air Challenge: calls on all 50 states to pass laws prohibiting smoking in public places. Currently 27 states and District of Columbia have met this challenge. b. June 2009: Federal Smoke Free Workplace Act introduced to prohibit smoking in government buildings and workplaces

3. Sub-Point: Creation of new legislation which expands tobacco cessation coverage under Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance plans. a. insurance coverage for 7 medications including over the counter and prescription nicotine replacement therapies and 2 non nicotine prescription drugs. b. insurance coverage for counseling to include 4 individual or group therapy sessions lasting no less than 10 minutes each.

TRANSITION STATEMENT AND SIGNPOST: C. Main Point: Visualization: What the world would look like if people did stop smoking 1. Sub-Point: The amount of smoking related deaths would dramatically decrease.
a. Like I said earlier there are approximately 440,000 deaths each year due to cigarette use, in a world where no one smoked that be an incredibly large decrease in the death ratio every year.
b. Also Lung Cancer, one of the most common problems amongst smokers, would no longer be a problem and would result in a immense decrease in lung cancer patients we see each year. 2. Sub-Point: Now if this were to happen, to live in a Cigarette/tobacco free world, then people who are the unfortionate ones that get cancer/disease from in wouldn’t have to spend any money at all because they would have those problems.
a. The average cost of lung cancer treatment went up $7,139 to $39,891 in today’s world.
b. Also as I previously stated people who buy cigarettes weekly would save anywhere from 1,000 to 1,500 dollars which instead they could spend on luxury items or family, Etc. 3. Sub-Point: Teens in high schools wouldn’t have to live up to peer pressure any more to try cigarettes from friends.
a. Teen smoking has increased over the years to the point where now 19% of all teenage males have become regular smokers and 27% of female teens have become regular smokers.

TRANSITION STATEMENT AND SIGNPOST: It is time to make a say, and change the allowance to smoke cigarettes in the USA today. D. Main Point: Action: What people can do to stop smoking cigarettes. 1. Sub-Point: With new forms of technology and counseling it is indeed possible to quit smoking
a. One method of quitting smoking is with proper counseling.
b. Counseling can be affective in that it gives the smoker support and encouragement 2. Sub-Point: There isn’t just counseling, however.
a. Nicotine Replacement Therapy remedies (Gum, Patches)
b. Massage Therapy remedies
c. Acupuncture remedies TRANSITION STATEMENT: Don’t be a victim to cigarette addiction. You have the choice to quit. III.CONCLUSION: A. SUMMARY: 1. CENTRAL IDEA: Today I wanted to discuss with you the 4 main points which are 2. MAIN POINTS: A. Main Point: Need: How smoking cigarettes becomes an addiction and in the end can lead to health issues and death. B. Main Point: Satisfaction: How we can decrease the number of people smoking C. Main Point: Visualization: What the world would look like if people did stop smoking D. Main Point: Action: What people can do to quit smoking cigarettes. B. GRACEFUL ENDING: Don’t let smoking envelope your life, thank you. IV. BIBLIOGRAPHY:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2004. Midlam, C.. "Spit, chew, snuff & smoke: The dangers of tobacco. " Fort Apache Scout 27 Mar. 2009,Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW), ProQuest. Web. 22 Mar. 2010. | | | Lung Cancer; Lung Cancer Alliance Hails Signing of Tobacco Control Legislation Into Law; Urges Action on Lung Cancer. " Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA 12 Jul 2009: Health Module, ProQuest. Web. 22 Mar. 2010. David Singleton. "Grim killer: Deadliest cancer tied almost entirely to smoking. " McClatchy - Tribune Business News 27 September 2009 ABI/INFORM Dateline, ProQuest. Web. 22 Mar. 2010. | | |
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Online. 2009.1December 2009 Smoking and Tobacco Use http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/effects_cig_smoking/index.htm The American Lung Association. Federal Tobacco Activity.2009 Trends http://www.stateoftobaccocontrol.org/2009/overview-key-findings/federal-tobacco-activity.html

Bibliography: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2004. Midlam, C.. "Spit, chew, snuff & smoke: The dangers of tobacco. " Fort Apache Scout  27  Mar. 2009,Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW), ProQuest. Web.  22 Mar. 2010. | | |   Lung Cancer; Lung Cancer Alliance Hails Signing of Tobacco Control Legislation Into Law; Urges Action on Lung Cancer. " Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA  12 Jul 2009: Health Module, ProQuest. Web.  22 Mar. 2010. David Singleton.  "Grim killer: Deadliest cancer tied almost entirely to smoking. " McClatchy - Tribune Business News  27 September 2009 ABI/INFORM Dateline, ProQuest. Web.  22 Mar. 2010.   | | | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Online. 2009.1December 2009 Smoking and Tobacco  Use  http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/effects_cig_smoking/index.htm   The American Lung Association. Federal Tobacco Activity.2009 Trends http://www.stateoftobaccocontrol.org/2009/overview-key-findings/federal-tobacco-activity.html