Blog 8: Editorial

Timing/Timeliness:  I chose my topic to be the bad effects of smoking.  This topic is very recent because people today smoke cigarettes.  I believe this topic is a very interesting topic because smoking has always been very controversial.

Situation/Context:  I think my topic of smoking could be written in many various sources.  This editorial could be written on the internet, in a newspaper article, in a magazine article, or even played on a television commercial.  The different sources that this editorial could be on would change the formality of the editorial. 

Audience:  The audience that I plan to target in my editorial includes smokers.  I mainly refer to teenagers throughout my editorial, but it can be targeted towards adults, as well.

Intention:  My intention for writing about this topic is to make people realize how horrible smoking is for their bodies, as well as other individuals.  I hope that this editorial is very persuasive to make smokers change their opinion of smoking.  I want them to realize that my opinion of smoking is the best opinion to have.

Editorial:

Smoking is a horrible thing that people have made a habit for their lives.  Teenagers waste their money and life with every puff they take from a cigarette.  Teenagers usually make the decision to smoke in their early years because they think they are invincible when it comes to anything that might harm them; they do not stop to think about future problems because they think adulthood is forever away.  In actuality, smoking is not that simple.  Cigarettes contain nicotine which is extremely addictive, and in order to quit, it takes an extreme amount of will power on anyone’s part.  Smoking gives people yellow teeth and fingernails, bad breath, deep, raspy voices, more aging lines, and, most importantly, the damage of one’s lungs.  Not only can smoking cause death for the person who smokes, it can kill the people in the same area due to second hand smoke.  Almost every adult who started smoking wished they would have never started.  Teenagers need to realize the past and take advantage of the advice from their elders and the fact that they know of the results of smoking a cigarette, unlike the worlds past generations.