Persuasive Essay About Smoking

Ms. Zimmerman is a guidance counselor at the Yeshivah of Flatbush and was a perfect candidate to interview about vaping. She has a very strong stance on vaping and believes it is harmful and spent a lot of time researching the effects of vaping. She helps students at the Yeshivah of Flatbush with substance abuse and any other issues a student would like to bring up with her. I have learned many things during the interview that I did not know about. Such as the fact that the FDA has not tested…

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.…

order to reverse the damage caused by cigarettes, it must be ceased from the market. Its current legality serves as a danger to society, smoker and non-smoker alike. Laws aim to protect New York City residents from the harmful effects produced by smoking. The New York City Health Department has enacted its most recent regulations on August 1, 2014 called the Local Law 94 and Local Law 97. The Health Department strives to provide smoke-free air, reduce the availability of tobacco to underage…

chance to quit smoking, so now there is a way to do this with a new product business are designing to have people cut down on their smoking or even quit. This new product that is taking the world by storm is a product called Electronic Cigarettes or also known as e-cigarettes. This invention is designed to be a flavor filled unit with a water vapor inside to give a person the sensation of smoking without actually inhaling the tobacco itself. Rather than inhaling the nicotine from the smoking of…

become ever more the focus for smoking prevention strategies among adolescents in high school. In one year alone between 2013 and 2014, the percentage and total number of students smoking e-cigarettes tripled from 4.5 to 13.4 percent of students and 660,000 to 2 million teenagers, respectively (Centers for Disease Control, 2015). E-cigarette use for the first time exceeded over the use of every other tobacco product, including conventional cigarettes. The behavior of smoking electronic…

For the genre revision I decided to make my MWA2 into a brochure. The reason I chose to remake the MWA2 is because it was clear to me that there are a lot of individuals who did not know that using an electronic cigarette and liquid nicotine can be poisonous. I saw this on the faces of my peers when I gave my presentation. Most of them looked intrigued because they had no clue it was possible to be poisoned through these devices. A few of my other peers were looking at me in disbelief. Not…

will change eventually. The way something is brought up to someone determines if the person will listen or not. Social campaigns are doing everything they can to make young people know about the dangers of smoking and also to ensure to them that they are always being supported. Although smoking in the U.S has declined at a rate of 15.7 percent it is still a huge problem. Young adults are risking their lives greatly for a little feeling of a “high” and do not understand how much damage they are…

Electronic Cigarettes: the Next Threat to Human and Environment According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, while the proportion of the cigarette smoking by teenagers is reduced to the lowest level in the survey’s history, the rate of the youth using electronic cigarettes has increased in significant numbers. Additionally, in 2015, the Discover Magazine emphasized the sales of e-cigarette increased 7 times within 4 years, “Sales of the product [electronic cigarettes] had already…

In recent history, people’s perception of smoking has greatly changed. Just half a century ago, nearly half of men in the United States smoked and tobacco companies were being advertised publicly. Today’s landscape has greatly changed, as public awareness of the harms of smoking traditional cigarettes have been brought into light (The Pros 14). A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that in 2014 the rates of smoking among adults in the United States was only at 16.8%…

Vaping a steam or smoking tobacco laced with chemicals, are ecigs a healthier alternative to cigarettes? I say healthier and I realize that there is no way to smoke anything and it be healthy, that’s just not how the human body works. Is there an alternative to smoking cigarettes full of cancer causing chemicals and other chemicals just to get us addicted? E cigs have not gone through enough tests to be understood completely. There are lots of rumors concerning e-cigs, but one thing that is…