Persuasive Speech On Smoking

Good evening. Good morning. Good afternoon. Whatever time it might be to those here and to those watching me across the world, it is surely a great time to quit smoking. We have long lived under the shadow of the smoke. It has been covering us like a fluffy duvet in a cold winter night. We live under the ignorance that the duvet is not slowly suffocating us, living in temporary bliss it gives us. Is the phrase, "Ignorance is bliss," then valid if our lives are in danger. Everyone, even the biased marketing teams of cigarette companies, can acknowledge the dangers of smoking. There is pictorial evidence everywhere we go. It be on billboards or etched on the cigarettes packs themselves. In Ethiopia, the words "Smoking Kills," cover up to 90% of the cigarette packs to ensure that the smokers sees what danger they are placing themselves in. On a utopia, weekend afternoon, in a high end cafe, the sweet smell of freshly baked baguettes is always interrupted by the pungent cigar smoke that always creates a strife of customers as everyone tries to avoid breathing it in. In the past millennia we have seen the evolution of tobacco smoking. From the traces of tobacco found in the bodies of pharaohs, leaving scientists puzzled about how such a product that originally grew in South America was present in Ancient Egypt, making it to the headlines of a Discovery channel magazine. From the tobacco based water pipes that the Turkish still hold as one of their oldest, deep