Persuasive Speech Outline For Research Paper

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Tom Leung

General Purpose: To persuade

Specific Purpose: I want my persuade audience to quit smoking

Introduction
(Attention Getter): Do you want to know how you can to save $1,300 a year? Simple. You don’t smoke. Because smoking is an expensive habit.
I.
(Central Idea): People have their own reason why they smoke. I’m here to persuade you if you quit smoking. You can save your self a lot of money.
II. (Audience Relevancy): I’m not here to tell you about the dangers of smoking because you guys already know that. You know that smoking causes cancer, you know it’s the leading cause of deaths, and you know its just not good for you. I want to tell you some reason why you should quit smoking besides the things you already know.
III. (Credibility) …show more content…

People smoke because they don’t want to gain weight. They care about their figure and this is true about Tabaco. According to a study in the journal Science. “It turns out that nicotine activates a pathway in the brain that suppresses appetite” I believe this is ridiculous that you’re going to risk your health for couple pounds of weight gain. I doesn’t make sense for someone to smoke only to prevent them from gaining weight. You can easily cut back on the sugar intake or spend an hour at the gym or even just going out for a walk. This should not be a reason to continue to smoke.
c. Another reason why people smoke that you might not know is that it can prevent Parkinson’s Disease
i. This is true. According to oxfordjournals.org, studies show that “Current smokers were 44 percent less likely to develop Parkinson’s disease than people who had never smoked. People who had smoked in the past and quit were 22 percent less likely to develop Parkinson’s than people who had never smoked.” ii. Smoke contains numerous chemicals that could be responsible for the protective effect of this disease. iii. I believe that nobody should advocate smoking to prevent this disease. This is not a good reason to smoke, and doctors won’t advise you to smoke because the rate of illnesses, stroke, heart attack is far greater in cigarette smoking that it is not worth the risk of trying to prevent

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