A Persuasive Speech about “Why Smoking Should be Illegal” Abbie Carter 8A Hello‚ today I am here to talk to you about the life-threatening consequences smoking can have and why I believe that it should be illegal. Across the world‚ even in the most deprived areas‚ millions of people are smoking. Every minute of every day‚ these smokers‚ young and old‚ are paying for cigarettes to feed their deadly craving. It is a well-known fact that smoking can seriously damage your health‚ not to forget the innocent
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Hello everyone. I’m going to talk to you about smoking‚ and smokers‚ and why it should be stopped. Smoking kills. It accounts for about 100‚000 deaths every year‚ in the UK. 10 million people in the UK smoke. Not only does smoking kill smokers‚ it kills people around them too! Around 11‚000 second hand smokers die every year. Everyday 800 children visit the doctor‚ suffering from the effects of inhaling someone else’s smoke. Only really inconsiderate or ignorant people would do that‚ smoke
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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
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assive smoke is when non-smokers are breathing in the smoke that a smoker is smoking. Passive smoking is not good‚ because non-smokers breathe it in‚ as well as the smoker‚ and it is very harmful for the non-smokers as well as the smoker. It is also a huge source of indoor air pollution. Four-fifths of the smoke that builds up in a room with a smoker is the more harmful "sidestream" type. Tobacco smoke has over 4‚000 chemical compounds‚ which includes 40 carcinogenic agents that are cancer-causing
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than 5 million of these deaths are a result of direct tobacco use and 600‚000 are the result of second hand smoke. * I have been smoking for 9-10 years now and I know just because you hear these figures does not mean you are going to quit smoking. * Some of the dangers of smoking are nicotine is very addictive‚ smoking causes health problems and smoking is harmful to nonsmokers. Body * Nicotine is the most addictive drug. It is more addictive than heroin because is large doses nicotine
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All About Smoking in the Philippines Philippines: Young smokers ’look so cool’ The campaign against smoking‚ which kills close to 90‚000 people a year in the Philippines - on a par with the number of deaths in natural disasters or conflicts - is becoming a losing battle. “My friends look so cool smoking‚” Arnold Santos of Mandaluyong City said‚ who took up the habit out of peer pressure. “Now‚ I smoke 10 cigarettes a day‚” the 17-year-old‚ who has no plans of quitting just yet‚ said. Despite
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Persuasive Speech Dangers of Smoking Specific Purpose: To inform the audience of the dangers of smoking and persuade them not to. Introduction: 1. Did you know that smoking is the number one preventable cause of death in the United States? 2. According to cancer.org there is 440‚000 deaths a year caused by tobacco. 3. On average every smoker costs their employer almost 2‚000 dollars a year in lost labor. By the end of the speech‚ the audience will be informed about the dangers
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Smoking Smoking can cause many health problems and also has health risks. Using tobacco is the single most preventable cause of disability‚ disease or death in the United States. The Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion has estimated that each year an estimated 443‚000 people die from smoking‚ or from second hand smoke. Also another 8.6 million people live with a major illness that is caused from smoking. With knowing all the risk that smoking has it is estimated that 46.6 million United
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A new study 50-Year Trends in Smoking-Related Mortality in the United States published in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that women’s death rates from smoking have caught up to those of men. The study showed that women’s risk of death from smoking-related illnesses is now equivalent to that of men. The researchers also found that‚ while lung cancer risk leveled off in the 1980s for men‚ it is still rising for women. The researchers measured trends in mortality during three time periods
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Negative Effects of Smoking Cigarettes Each year cigarettes are responsible for about 443‚000 deaths‚ on average this is smokers dying 13 to 14 years sooner than nonsmokers1. Cigarette smoking is a horrible behavior in our daily lives. Smoking is not just horrible‚ but it also has many serious effects on your health‚ which are often deadly. There are over 4000 chemicals in cigarettes‚ hundreds to which are toxic to your body2. Smoking is a terrible and disgusting habit‚ because second hand smoke
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