Smoking affects much more than just your physical appearance. Smoking is a much bigger problem than anyone really thinks it to be. “Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including nearly 42,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure” (Smoking & Tobacco use). Many people smoke and it is slowly affecting their physical appearance, but along with appearance it is affecting their health too. When people smoke, several problems occur such as throat and or lung cancer, bad breath and yellowing and decaying of teeth. Many people are prone to smoking due to being around smokers. The photo below shows a good representation of some of the negative things that smoking can do to your body. …show more content…
Pathos is emotions that the photo might make a viewer feel. In the photo above, a possible feeling a viewer might feel is shocked and even afraid. When looking at the photo above, the teeth are replaced with cigarette butts. This photo may shock a viewer because the viewer may expect the teeth of a human rather than cigarette butts. Another feeling a viewer may encounter is being disgusted. The photo presents a negative view of smoking. It shows that more may happen to a smoker’s body than they ever expected to ever happen. Lastly, a viewer may even experience sadness. Almost everyone knows someone who smokes, and possibly may know someone who had died from the serious results of smoking. But there is another strategy that the photo above …show more content…
If a viewer is already smoking, they have several options to quit smoking. A viewer of the photo can go cold turkey, wean themselves off smoking so much to the point they are dependant on it anymore, the patches or gum that helps ease someone off smoking dependencies, or even find local help groups for smokers or former smokers. When a viewer of the above is young and isn’t smoking yet, they shouldn’t start. They should learn from the negative things that happen to others and don’t start. Smoking is a serious thing and it affects much more than just a smoker’s
Every year in the United States, more than 480,000 people die from tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke; consequently, making this the leading cause of preventable death in this country. People are usually introduced to smoking at a young age; mostly around the preteen years. During this critical time preteen are transitioning from middle school to high school; teens at this age find it a little harder fitting in with others all while forming their own sense of identity. Preteens only pick up the habit of smoking to cope with these challenges. What these teens do not know is that smoking at an early age only increases their chances of suffering from a lifelong addiction. To help assuage the situation the Nicotinell anti-smoking organization
The campaign Truth focuses on giving facts, truths and statistics to its viewers to become educated on the topic of tobacco. Underneath the large text from above, the second fact states that “90% of them started as teen smokers.” Many adults that have become addicted to smoking cigarettes began the habit as teens. There are many people that believe smokers are not good people and that they are going to be ill. That is what the artist of this picture is portraying. Truth’s most recent campaign, ‘Finish It’, has a strong theme: “be the generation that ends smoking for good.” This has been presented and shown through social media and popular television shows. Through the exposure of the deathly, and eye opening facts through social media, it has been a great impact to teenagers. On Truth’s website they state that “We’re not here to criticize your choices, or tell you not to smoke. We’re here to arm everyone—smokers and nonsmokers—the the tools to make it change” (thetruth.com). Many other anti—smoking campaigns shame and make smokers feel guilty but Truth is mainly about exposing the facts and making people more knowledgeable about tobacco.
As per the American Heart Association in 2013, an expected 23 percent of grown-up men and 18 percent of grown-up ladies in the United States are smokers. What’s even more troubling is the prevalence of juvenile smoking in our society. juvenile smoking is a very real danger among U.S. youngsters and high schoolers. About 25 percent of U.S. secondary school understudies are smokers, and an extra 8 percent use smokeless tobacco items, for example, snuff and plunge. But what is most disheartening, is that 30 percent of all juvenile smokers will become addicted and suffer health related complications due to prolonged smoking. Numerous components play into a kid's choice to attempt tobacco. A craving to seem "cooler", more advanced, or to
Since realizing smoking is associated with many health problems such as cancer, many advertisements are designed purposely to the end cigarette smoking. An estimated 40 million adults in the United States currently smoke cigarettes. Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States (CDC, 2016). Nowadays we are more conscious about how terrible smoking is for our health. Smoking cigarettes can be one of the most destructive things you can do to your body and yet millions of people around the world continue to do so. Anti-smoking ads fight the cancerous substance and hope to transform the minds of many or even the lives of many. It has become frequent in many advertisements to see the damage that smoking causes to someone and to others due to secondhand contact. Several anti-smoking advertisements are successful because they use the potential of death to scare people. The anti-smoking advertisement above is a prime example of this because it uses our fear of death to shame smokers to give up smoking. The advertisement employs the three rhetorical appeals of logos, ethos, and pathos in its image and hinted meanings. With this, the image is able to communicate a dramatic impression of danger and advocates awareness of the deadliness of smoking.
Personally, after reading through this ad for Camel cigarettes, I have concluded that this sort of promotion makes no sense. The one thing that stuck out to me the most was the quote, "More doctors smoke camels than any other cigarette." First of all, I think that this is a pretty insane statement, because they are provoking us to believe that if the men/women who advise us to live healthier lifestyles smoke camel cigarettes, then it is a highly convincing for us to do so as well. In support of this, they use phrases and imagery towards the beginning that portrays our ordinary doctor our friend, family member, and someone to trust and confide in. Quotes used such as, "with of all of the knowledge and skill that his years of training and experience
Pathos is an emotional appeal that influences what people think and believe. “If you strike the right emotional note, you’ll establish an important connection” (44), you want people to use their emotions to connect them into what your saying which persuades them. For example when you see those sad animal shelter videos on TV with the depressing music you automatically want to save and nurture the animals on the TV because they connected to you and tugged at your emotions. Pathos is used in many things such as literature, ads, music and arguments most importantly. “Make people be aware of how much they owe to others, and they’ll acknowledge that debt; persuade people to hate an enemy, and they’ll rally against it; make people feel secure of happy (or insecure or unhappy) , and they’ll buy products the promise such good feelings” (41), and that's why pathos is so important in
Smoking- Smoking cigarettes are one of the fashions. If you smoke or spend time with smokers, its ill effect has direct impact on your health. Cigarette smoke harms the health and its effect can be seen clearly on our skin. Also the cigarette smoke increases skin wrinkles and dryness.
Smoking has become a big epidemic in the United States. As a tobacco free person, I want to be able to breathe clean air anywhere I go. As we know, smoking can harm every organ in the body (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). I believe that smoking should be banned in public places such as drinking establishments, hospitals, buses, train stations, and restaurants. Not only does smoking affect the individual smoker, it also causes a number of health problems, increases death rate, and it affects not only the lives, but the health of other people around them. On the contrary, smoking should be banned in public areas for these reasons.
Thank You for Smoking Rhetorical Analysis: Thank you for not smoking. The film Thank You for Smoking is an obscure jesting that follows a petitioner, Nick Naylor, for the tobacco industry. Murky comedies take a grave topic, and light the topic through mockery. A worthy example of rhetoric can be found in Thank You for Smoking, during a scene where Nick Naylor delivers an argument against putting a skull and crossbones label on every pack of cigarettes. Senator Finistirre does this during a hearing in front of a congressional committee lead by Vermont.
Smoking is one of the leading causes of premature death world-wide. Anti-smoking advertisements, such as yours, are meant to inform people of the dangers of tobacco as well as discourage others from developing the bad habit. In order to successfully persuade your audience, the advertisement cleverly utilizes the three rhetorical appeals of ethos, logos, and pathos through its image and implied meanings.
In the film Thank you for smoking, Nick Naylor- the main character of the film employs rhetorical devices such as re-framing, hyperbole and numerous logical fallacies to win his argument
Most people would think that cigarette smoking can cause many health issues and diseases after looking at the ingredients used, and they are right. Periodontitis, Peptic ulcers, Erectile dysfunction, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Cancer, and cardiovascular disease are just a few of the diseases that can be caused from smoking cigarettes. Smoking may also increase the chance of heart disease, stroke, atherosclerosis, and peripheral vascular disease. Tobacco has also been linked to Buerger 's disease, Oral disease and some infection throughout the body has also been caused by smoking
The image and the articles show some differences with in similarities on the uses of pathos. The photographer uses pathos as a fear in order to warn people not to eat fast-food. However, author uses pathos as empathy over the poor people who have been affected with obesity and as an encouragement and motivation to people who want to lose weight and get healthier. Overall, the photographer and the author use the use of appeal in different way to send the same messages.
So how does smoking actually affect your health? They are many reasons why smoking cigarettes affects you, what your body needs is food, water, sleep, and exercise not all the poisons in a cigarette, each time you smoke your body is gradually dying in the insides, smoking is responsible for 1 out of 5 deaths. Smoking can just cause bad skin, bad breath, bad- smelling clothes and hair, reduced athletic performance, greater risk of injury and slower healing time, and increased risk of illness, and that’s just for what smoking can cause before the long run, not at all the worse things that would happen to your body in the long
One last very severe effect of smoking is teeth decay. The reason for teeth decay is tobacco products which damage your gum tissue by affecting the attachment of bone and soft tissue to your teeth. An example of the effect is receding gums. A receding gum line exposes the tooth roots and increases your risk of developing a sensitivity to hot and cold, or tooth decay in these unprotected areas. Additionally, smoking can also contribute to bad breath, stains in the teeth and a build-up of tartar on the teeth.