The author tries to convey through their visual that smoking is the equivalent of suicide to today’s youth. The author chooses to show the visual monochromatically. This goes to show how smoking is a serious topic because the colors can be a reference to how when a person dies, people will have to wear black, by tradition, at their funeral. The youth is shown in grey which can further represent how they are ‘inbetween’ life and death because they are dying from their addiction. Another thing the visual shows is a young person smoking. It can be inferred that smoking is something that many people start when they are young and so the visual is directed mainly towards the youth. The author sends a message that they want to tell the youth to not
