Persuasive Speech On Electronic Cigarettes

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General Purpose: To persuade
Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to call their state senators and urge them to fight against the current FDA proposal, the Deeming Regulation, which would inject debilitating regulations that would cripple the vaping industry. We should urge the FDA to loosen upcoming extremist-restrictions that would prevent the sale or creation of electronic-cigarette related products without their explicit consent.
Thesis: The advancement in e-cigarettes has allowed smokers of cigarettes to make a healthier transition while avoiding many of the 7,000 harmful chemicals found in a single cigarette. The FDA wants to stand between consumers and businesses to apply devastating regulations to this growing industry. We should call upon our state senators to fight against the FDA and support the bill HR 2058 to loosen upcoming extremist-restrictions that prevent the sale or creation of electronic-cigarette related products without the explicit consent and approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

I. The Attention Step:

A. Attention: I am a product of underage smoking. When I was 13, and living abroad in South America, I picked up my first cigarette. Walking along the old cobblestone road in Posadas, the Parana River to my right, one of the
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Preview: Thanks to the modernization of electronic-cigarettes, the substitution of vaping versus traditional cigarettes has saved countless lives and is more accessible than ever. If the FDA is allowed to fully enforce their motives behind keeping vaping out and big tobacco in within the smoking industry. then healthier options will be minimized and nullified within the future. One possible reason the FDA wants complete control over the market is to ensure the US is still able to heavily reap from vape-related products, and it’s growing 10 billion-dollar industry, just as it does from the big tobacco industry. but this comes at the potential cost to the entire industry as a whole. – but at what

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