Cigarettes

Kennita Brown

January 29, 2007

ENG 112

"She has eyes sparkling blue and hair as blonde as sunshine and teeth like old linoleum. If you think smoking makes you look cool think again. Cigarettes stain your words permanently and there's nothing cools about that" (Center for Disease Control)

Those words are printed on the picture that I chose. To me the image that I chose was created to show you just how not cool smoking is. Linoleum is a floor covering. The advertisement says her teeth are like old linoleum, which is basically saying her like an old floor. There are many germs on the floor. This advertisement is basically saying that you could be one of the prettiest people in the world: but if you smoke you are damaging your body and your words because people will not trust you. Advertising is paid communication through a non-personal medium in which the sponsor is identified and the message is controlled. Every major medium is used to deliver these messages: television, radio, movies, magazines, newspapers, the internet, and billboards. Advertisements can also be seen on the seats of grocery carts, on the walls of an airport walkway, and the sides of buses, or heard in telephone hold messages or in-store PA systems - nearly anywhere a visual or audible communication can be placed.Advertising clients are predominantly, but not exclusively, for-profit corporations seeking to increase demand for their products or services. This advertisement is to prevent people not to smoke.

Cigarette fumes contain harmful toxics. That is why being trapped in cigarette smoke is not like being trapped in a portable toilet. It's not the smell; it's the instantaneous physical, somatic reactions. It's like the difference between the air in a barnyard and the air in an unventilated garage with an idling diesel bus. The first is merely unpleasant, the second is poisonous. The physical reaction (sweaty palms, nausea, and headache) all warn of danger, and urge whoever to get into some fresh air immediately. In days of old canaries were kept in coal mines, because if there was coal gas in the air, the canaries would die more quickly than the miners, alerting them to the danger. Coal gas and cigarette smoke are both inescapable when they permeate the local air. And it didn't take government studies to come to this conclusion. Cigarettes and smokeless tobacco kill hundreds of thousands of Americans every year. You know those rubber bracelets that were created to bring attention to different causes? The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids created a red one with the number 1,200 on it. Why 1,200? That's the number of people who die each day due to smoking. The nicotine and other poisonous chemicals in tobacco cause lots of diseases, like heart problems and some kinds of cancer. If you smoke, you hurt your lungs and heart each time you light up. It also can make it more difficult for blood to move around in the body, so smokers may feel tired and cranky. The longer you smoke, the worse the damage becomes. Using tobacco eats up a lot of money, too. A pack of cigarettes costs $4, on average. That means, even if you buy just one pack a week, you'll spend $208 in a year. Some people smoke a pack a day, which adds up to $1,460! That's a lot of CDs, computer games, and clothes. Usually, people don't like smoking or chewing tobacco at first. Your body is smart, and it knows when it's being poisoned. When people try smoking for the first time, they often cough a lot and feel