Smoking

Smoking

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                                                            Name         :________________________


Sample Persuasive Speech Outline

Topic: Smoking

Specific purpose:
To persuade the audience to stop anybody they know from smoking to prevent damage to their health.

Introduction:

I Attention Step (effective openings):
You may wonder what our future generation may look like because of the effects of smoking. According to a study of teen smokers, young men who smoke may be both compromising their fertility and increasing their risk of fathering a child with genetic abnormalities due to sperm mutations in smokers. According to the Smoking Cessation (1999), males who smoke have a cough reflex that is slower to react than nonsmoking males. A person’s reflex to cough is a defensive action that prevents foreign material from entering the respiratory tract and helps to remove mucus from the airways. Based on an article entitled ‘RS okays banning cigarette ads (2003), women who smoke may also have reduced fertility. One study found that 38% of non-smoking women conceived in their first cycle compared with 28% of smokers. Smokers were 3.4 times more likely than non-smokers to have taken more than a year to conceive (Smoking, sex, & reproduction 2002). Since 40% of you are tobacco users and 80% of you have a member at home or friends who are tobacco users, you should be aware of the long-term effects.

Transition: As young adults, we should try our best to stop people from smoking to
                  prevent an increase in diseases and deaths.

Body:
II Need Step :
According to an article ‘Cigarette smoking among adults – United States (1999), in the United States, cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable mobility and mortality and results in approximately 430,000 deaths each year.

A. There are many harmful ingredients in cigarettes.
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