Satire And Cartoon Analysis

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He believes satire has lost its bite in current times, but he is not necessarily correct. Satire is used to bring up issues, and in some ways convince its audience to take part in the issue. A cartoon was made for the author to counter think of the situation where people would smoke for a cure to cancer. This cartoon is very effective and brings attention to a popular topic. With this he is wrong to say that satire has lost its bite.
In some ways satire has lost its bite because the illustration of the women smoking cigarettes cannot be too convincing since smoking a popular activity. Many commercials now have to target teenagers and younger adults to not smoke because many of them do. Therefore the satire of the cartoon did not convey

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