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Persuasive Speech Outline Making Tobacco Illegal Topic: Making Cigarettes Illegal General Purpose: To weaken the commitment of the audience Specific Purpose: To weaken the commitment of the audience to the side stating that cigarettes should be legal Thesis: Cigarettes are not only harmful to people who use them, they are also injurious to innocent bystanders and should be made illegal. Introduction I. Attention Getter: Tobacco. The Silent Killer. Over 440,000 Americans a year die from diseases attributed solely to cigarette smoking alone according to the Chronic Disease Prevention website. Tobacco kills more people than alcohol, cocaine, crack, heroin, homicide, suicide, car accidents, fires and AIDS combined. II. Thesis: Cigarettes are not only harmful to those who use them, but they also hurt and kill innocent bystanders and should be made illegal. III. Preview: Today I am going to talk about why cigarettes should be made illegal, why some people such as cigarette companies think it shouldn’t, and some short term solutions that are taking place, before making them illegal, to stop this unnecessary massacre on our soil. Body I. How it hurts the User: Over 1.1 billion people currently smoke cigarettes in the world. This habit is an expensive one for packs of cigarettes keep increasing in price, and they take years off your life. In essence, someone who smokes is paying cigarette companies to slowly kill you. An extreme situation similar to this would be paying for the gun and bullets that someone will use to murder you. a. Smoking cigarettes is the cause of about 25 different diseases including cancers, such as lung, pancreas, and lip, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, and pediatric diseases. Also, smokers in their 30s and 40s are 5 times as likely to have a heart attack as non-smokers.
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