My picture shows an image that is all too familiar in the public eye of today’s society, the image of smoking and how it affects people. In this picture one can see how smoking can really affect one’s life and how the addiction can be suffocating to not only one’s outside appearance, but of one’s health. In this particular photo, shows a controversial side of the appeal that people become addicted to cigarettes and that even after having “reality” strike by having to get a tracheotomy, some people still cannot get over the addiction. Even though I am not a smoker myself, I have had firsthand accounts of how the nicotine can cause a lapse of pain, money, and self motivation. My grandfather was very addicted to smoking, back then my parents would call him a “chain smoker”, referring that he could on certain days smoke a whole carton of cigarettes in one setting. Back then I was young and naïve, but after my grandfather passed away last August, I really knew that the world had lost a great man due to cigarettes. He had become addicted as a young boy, and had not stopped smoking until I was around the age of eight or nine; he became better but in his later years his health declined and his lack of oxygen took over. Cigarettes can cause many people pain, not just the smoker. In conclusion, I would like the people reading this blog to really focus on how even though most people now in reality that cigarettes are very harmful to their health, the actual reality is that they are addicted to that cigarette and that until they are ready and willing to stop they will not be able to overcome the addiction. By looking at my picture the photographer, whoever he or she may be, took this picture to show how unhealthy lifestyles may be lived out by actually capable well behaved people. Those people are addicted to things that they know are not healthy, but the addiction is what really kills them. This picture is great for my argumentative essay for the class as well, showing the side effects as well as a firsthand account of how smoking can trigger an addiction that to some may be incurable until it is too late.
Smoking is just disgraceful and disgusting. What are the real benefits from smoking? Nothing. Yes it might make you feel good or relax or relieve some stress but thats it. If thats what you're looking for then you should try something else besides picking up a cancer stick. As you can see, the only real long lasting benefits of smoking are negative. Whomever this is in this photo has suffered greatly from smoking and still chooses to do so. I feel sorry for them but not really because they see what smoking has done to them and yet they continue to try to smoke. Its pitiful.
ReplyDeleteI really love your argument, and your use of a captivating picture. This makes me feel sad more than anything. I think the reason why is because, my boyfriend of two years is a chain smoker. I myself have never smoked, but seeing him, and how addicted he is to cigarettes is a real worry for me. He has tried to quit several times, but after a sixth month break from the deadly chemicals, peer pressure caused him to start again. It's been over a year now. He constantly tells me that they are killing him, but he religiously buys a new pack everyday to fulfill his craving. I pray to God, that he finds the strength to quit, or else I'm afraid that one day he will end up looking like the person in the picture.
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