General Purpose: To inform my audience about cigarettes.
Specific Purpose: To tell my audience about some of the many facts about cigarettes that we may not have previously been aware of.
Central Idea: Every year four million people die worldwide from smoking related diseases. In a single day 1200 Americans will die and world wide someone is dying every eight seconds because of tobacco related diseases.
INTRODUCTION.
I. Attention Material.
A. Every cigarette you smoke cuts five minutes of your life on average.
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II. Orienting Material.
A. I checked several different websites for information and they all have the same information that's been out there for quite sometime but most people just disregard it.
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(Transition: More than 4000 harmful chemicals have been found in tobacco smoke and these companies are not even required to list the ingredients on the packaging.).
BODY.
I. In 1989, millions of cases of imported fruit was banned after a small amount of cyanide was found in 2 grapes. In case you don't know that is a chemical used in rat poison and one cigarette has 33 times more cyanide than those two grapes. Another mishap like this was in 1990 when 72 million bottles of water were voluntarily recalled because traces of benzene, which is used as a solvent in fuel, was found in the water. Again, smoke from one pack of unfiltered cigarettes has as much benzene as 169 bottles of this contaminated water.
A. A few other chemicals are listed: .
B. Formaldehyde: embalming fluid.
C. Amonia: toilet cleaner.
D. Acetone: nail polish remover.
E. Tar: If you smoke 20 cigarettes a day its equivalent to full cup of tar a year .
F. Hydrogen Cyanide: gas chamber poison and was also reportedly used against the Kurdish people in the 1980's war between Iran and Iraq as a chemical agent.
(Transition: ) Half of long-term smokers will die from cigarette related diseases even though it is the single most preventable cause of disease.
The first ad was a Camel Cigarettes from the 1950s. ... Just below the pink camel there is the abbreviation for the word number then the number nine (No. 9). ... Not just all men and women either, people who worked hard and had important jobs like doctors. ... Not just those who had important jobs like doctors. ... If I smoke that cigarette then it must make me cool. ...
Electronic cigarettes look like the real thing; they glow at the end just as you inhale and when you exhale, vapor flows out of your mouth just as if a real cigarette would (Morgan, 2014). This effect makes it more attractive to the consumer because it looks, feels and "smokes" just like a real cigarette (Electronic Cigarette's Buyers Guide, 2010). ... The effects of electronic cigarettes are still unknown. ... Secondary Stakeholders Cigarette/Tobacco Companies (Competition) A secondary stakeholder that does not influence the markets for electronic cigarettes as powerfully as o...
Newport is a very popular choice of cigarettes. ... Newport cigarettes are considered to be one of the most popular choice of cigarettes. ... The Newport cigarette ad in 2013 shows a group of friends. ... Both females in the photo are holding cigarettes in their hands. ... Everyone noticed the bigger picture like the family on the beach, the couples having fun at a baseball game, or the group of friends just hanging out. ...
The risk of addiction to cigarettes, however, is highly underestimated. ... Cigarettes are very dangerous to your health. ... Not only do cigarettes drastically increase your chances of lung cancer, but just one single cigarette can affect the hearts function. ... Cigarette's are a drug. ... Cigarette Advertisement was meant to make a child do that. ...
Let's look at how two brands of cigarettes, Camel Cigarettes and Salem Cigarettes, appeal to two different groups of consumers. Camel Cigarettes advertises in GQ to target smoking or nonsmoking men and Salem Cigarettes uses Cozmopolitan for smoking women. The ad for Camel Cigarettes in GQ targets smoking or nonsmoking men. ... Since it is targeted for women who are already smokers of Salem Cigarettes, woman trust the company and are very familiar with the cigarettes. ... The pathos in the Salem ad are all the women that want to feel sexy and carefree just as the woman presented i...
A Cigarette is a type of drug. ... Smoking harms not just the smoker, but also family members, coworkers and others who breathe the smoker's cigarette smoke, called secondhand smoke. ... No, in fact the majority of smokers just throw the left over of their cigarettes on the ground. What is usually left over when a smoker is done with their cigarette is just the filter. ... Filters are also known as cigarette butts. ...
Cigarette advertisements were everywhere in the 1950s through the 1970s and today you do not see any advertisements for cigarettes. ... In the 1930s through early 1960s, advertisers treated cigarette ads just like any other product that they were advertising. ... They just could not do it on television or radio any more. ... This gave the impression that their cigarette was the cleanest and not as bad and harmful as the other cigarettes.19 Lark cigarettes had a very deceiving ad for their filters. ... Camels advertising was "More Doctors Smoke Camels than Any Other Cigarette"22 L&M...
The Effects of Cigarettes Cigarettes are readily available in the United States to anyone who is eighteen and has the money to buy them, but the tragedy is they lead to very serious effects on your health and appearance. Nicotine is the main ingredient found in cigarettes and could very well be the most addicting drug/chemical on the planet. ... When you are burning the cigarette and inhaling, you are sucking in a mixture of smoke and tar. ... Instead of disposing the tar, you just end up coughing up mucous. ... Death is something most people are scared of and a reason many people stay away...