quit smoking
 
 

 
 Attention Getter:  390,000 people died last year.  Each one of them spending an estimated 1,100 dollars a year on their deaths.  In twenty-five years each person could have had an estimated 28,000 dollars of free spending money.  Smoking is the root of the problem.  

 Appeal to Audience:  Weather you smoke or not it affects everyone in this room.  You can be affected by either getting taxed for the medical bills or as simple as second hand smoke.

 Thesis Statement:  Everyone must quit smoking.

 Preview:  Your going to hear about Tobacco, second hand smoke, quitting smoking, ways of quitting, on the day you quit, withdrawal symptoms.

 Transition to body:  These are the facts about smoking

ii. Most addictive drug in existence

1. Consume 540 billion cigarettes each year

F. 30% of cancer deaths are liked to smoking

Transition:  Not only are you hurting yourself, but others around you.

1. Killing more people than any other air pollution combined

2. Lung cancer in healthy non-smokers

3. Children grow up with respiratory problems

iii. Lose their sense of smell up to 20%

 Transition:  It’s actually realistic to give all of this up.

6. understand withdrawal symptoms are temporary

2.  Cut down on the number of smokes

4.  Wait one hour before your first smoke

2. Buy something with the left over money

3. Spend time where you can’t smoke

10. Do things that require use of hands

 Transition:  Succeed, and make your self feel better.

 After I have gone through what tobacco is, second hand smoke, quitting smoking, ways of quitting, on the day you quit, and withdrawal symptoms everyone needs to go and take action on this problem.

 Everyone knows who smokes.  Present these ideas to them or yourself.  By not smoking you can make yourself and others feel delighted and in control.


  
  
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http://www.hotecno.com/book43.htm

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http://www.thetruth.com/coverstories/may00/flash/index.cfm

http://www.quitnet.org/qn_main.jtml

http://www.tobacco.org/

http://www.committedquitters.com/

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