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A Rhetorical Analysis Of Cigarette Smoking

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Cigarette Smoking is the leading cause of preventable deaths in the United states. One out of every five deaths fault to cigarette smoking. Did you know fifteen out of every 100 adults smoke cigarettes? The advertisement I chose is a bullet on top and a cigarette on the bottom. The bullet quotes the word quick and the cigarette says slow. Anti-smoking advertisement show the harmful and negative effects of tobacco. This anto smoking advertisement uses the three rhetoric appeals logos, ethos, and pathos by catching your attenting leaving us to wonder what exactly a bullet and a cigarette has in common. This anti-smoking advertisement tugs closely on the hearts using emotional appeal. The speed of the Cigarette burning slowly resperates how smoking slowly kills you inside and out. There isn’t one human who can sit and imagine themselves dying a slow and agonizing death. This advertisement strikes the emotion of fear. The fear of any human feels who smokes cigarettes. The fear of not knowing if you are slowing burning the minutes, and seconds of your life away while showing zero physical or mental affects. The words in this anti-smoking advertisement also uses the logos appeal. It is logically known and proven smoking kills a human …show more content…

It is saying that smoking will eventually kill you, but very slowly. You may not feel any effects from smoking right now or throughout your entire life, but it is proven that every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes from your life span. The minor premise is that smoking is equivalent to getting a bullet to your brain. This is shown from the image of a bullet with the word “quickly” right beneath it. From the general knowledge of the harm cigarettes do and the image of a bullet, we can infer that the claim the image’s creator is making is that smoking is suicidal. This claim is enhanced by the words on the image “quickly” below the bullet and “slowly” below the

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