Saturday, January 22, 2011

Visual Persuasive Rhetoric


http://www.oregonhypnosis.com/smoking.htm
The persuasive message is that if you are given cigarettes as a child they can easily become addictive and affect the rest of your life. Once you start smoking, it is unlikely that you will be able to quit reguardless of what it does to you and your body. The intended audience is the people who are giving cigarettes to children day after day. It is tryin to get the attention of people who dont realize how addicting smoking can be. This is ad is aimed to grab the attention of every enabler, every smoker, and every person who has ever thought of smoking.The California Department of Health Services is the author of this ad. Seeing the cigarette in her hand and the smoke blowing out of the hole in her throat is a scary but very surreal image. The look in her eyes screams for help; we can tell from the photo that she wants to desprately quit.

1 comment:

  1. This blog attracts me. I agree wtih you, Taylor. Cigarettes are not good things for children. However,why some people give cigarettes to children? May be, I think they want children to take some experience or adventure. But, cigarettes are not absolutely good things to experience it.

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