One such debate that has become an increasingly popular debate topic is the right to smoke cigarettes in public areas. In recent years many American states such as New York, California, and North Carolina have passed bans on public smoking. The smoking bans reach restaurants and bars, prohibiting any smoking indoors. There are two very distinct sides to this debate. On one side is the smoking population who believe that he or she has the right to smoke inside public areas.
As a result, ads have desensitized American culture and established values, judgments, and opinions that were established formerly have disintegrated. In American society, advertisements fabricate reality, reveal a false presentation of values and beliefs, and diminish one’s process of personal discovery, thus generating a superficial society that challenges human progress. Advertisements are woven into the context of a consumer’s experience and often portray a conflicting message than what the ad is attempting to sell. Cigarette advertisements are especially glamorized and controversial. The cigarette brand American Spirit recently published an ad that falsely represents its product.
So why do people addicted to inhaling an insecticide, a common ingredient in organic bug sprays, believe they have a right to spew noxious, toxic, carcinogenic fumes all over the place in public?” Many arguments can be made against smoking bans, but more arguments can be made for them. For overall health concerns, smoking should be banned in all public places, benefitting both smokers and non-smokers alike. According to Leading Issues Timelines, smoking originated with the Mayans around 1,000 BCE. It was originally used for medicinal and ceremonial purposes. Smoking started being abused in 1492, in Spain and has been used ever since.
Is controversial television advertising the choice of a free society? Manufacturers advertise to increase market share and to promote a positive image. For some advertisers this may include “controversial” television advertisements. An example is the “Joe Camel” advertising campaign used by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Protests were launched because people believed the use of a carton character was intended to target children.
Key questions for this debate are: Is it the proper role of government to legislate to protect citizens from the harmful effects of their own lifestyle decisions? Does tobacco advertising increase tobacco consumption? Do health warnings, however much of the cigarette packet they cover, reduce consumption? What would be the effects of banning smoking in all public places, or even completely Protecting smokers: Should governments restrict smoking to protect smokers? No * Governments must defend freedom of choice to smoke.
Inhaling secondhand smoke causes lung cancer in nonsmoking adults. About 3,000 lung cancer deaths occur each year among adult nonsmokers. Secondhand smoke causes disease and premature death in nonsmoking adults and children. Children exposed to secondhand smoke are at risk of SIDS, ear infections, cold, pneumonia, bronchitis, and severe asthma. Secondhand smoke slows the growth of children's lungs and can cause them to cough wheeze, and feel breathless.
With all the various T.V stations and programs we have it teaches people about society rules and how to fit in. There are many shows that give advice on dressing, for example the show What Not To Wear, and various dating shows. There are even shows that have videos of people doing outrageous things for pure entertainment and laughing, in which other people mimic because they believe it helps them fit in. An example of how media influences us "Following the 9/11 terrorism, media coverage followed accusations by government authorities that pointed toward al Qaeda as the group that carried out the attack on the United States and Osama bin Laden as leader of that group. Those news reports on the attack and the aftermath shaped public opinion to support the war on terrorism."
Also, secondhand smoke could be a problem too. A couple solutions to this problem are to stop the media promoting smoking and to educate teens about smoking and how it's bad for you. Cigarette smoking is the greatest preventable cause of disease and premature death in the United States. Secondhand smoke causes numerous lung cancer deaths annually. Measures have been taken in both workplaces and public places to limit exposure to secondhand smoke.
As professor of social politics, mark kings position on the issue of banning smoking would be expected to be believed. Kings opinion piece, “banning smoking is undemocratic” appeals to the readers democratic rights to convince them that we should not ban smoking and that “we must accept the fact that people are responsible for their own lives” relying heavily on the results of a webpoll and his own research findings diverts readers to accept that in democracy individual have the right to make choices about their own life. In this opinion piece there is a inclusion of a webpoll preformed by the herald sun asking should smoking be illegal, this is put here to demonstrate what mark king is trying to get across to the reader in the opinion piece this relates to the headline in the way that it is showing that 55.8% of the public are against smoking being banned and only 44.2% of the public agree that smoking should be banned “this tells us that although most people dislike smoking they are not prepared to make it illegal”. In part of the opinion piece king tries to appeal to his reader’s democratic rights and freedom of choice, by defining what democracy is to him “democracy is about individual freedom and choice, or what philosophers call ‘enlightened self interest’” .knight reinforces his statement when he returns to it in the second half of the text he says “we must accept the fact that people are responsible for their own lives” and “if you choose to smoke, you must accept the consequences of ill health that the bad habit brings”. In the second half of this piece king uses an inclusive pronoun twice the pronoun being ‘we’ king uses these to drag readers in and make them think that they can help.
Good Morning class as you may already know of me and for those who don’t know me , today I will be presenting about smoking , Why people do it , What it does to your health and why we should prohibit it Why People Smoke First of all I would like to talk about "Why people smoke" , 1. Most people start smoking when they are in their teens and are addicted by the time they reach adulthood. Some have tried to quit but have returned to cigarettes because smoking is such a strong addiction. It is a habit that is very difficult to break. There are many different reasons why people smoke.