Term Papers on Smoking Bans

Term Paper Title	Smoking Bans
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Smoking Bans

English 20

March 5, 2004

            Recently many laws have been passed which banned cigarette smoking.  Smoking, although, very unhealty and exspensive, many still feel the need for and are upset with the bans.  On the other hand, the “healt nuts” are overly joyed with a now cleaner and better enviorment.  Both sides are throughly exslpaned in the aricles, “smoking bans may snuff out lodge,” by  Kriston Milton and “Smoking Ban Urged For All of Maryland,” by Darragh Johnson from the Washington Post.

Kriston Milton writes of how the smoking ban has almost put a small bar out of business.  They blame their recent loss in customer on the smoking bans.  Darragh Johnson writes on how Maryland is pushing for a state wide ban on all smoking.  As in any subject there are pros and cons; all that matters is which side you lie on.  There are many ways a writer could try and sway his audience to one side or the other.  Most other will use rhetoric, which will decieve the reader to believe one thing when something else is true.  Both Darrag Johnson and Krison Milton use rhetoric but, do so in very different ways.  Kriston Milton uses faulty extrapolation and while Darrag Johnson uses bandwagon.

Those who oppose and who are against the smoking bans both have reasons why.  What seems to be mentioned most for thos against smoking bans is, that they lose customers and business with the ban.  Kriston writes about a man named Radice, who owns a small bar.  Radice said,

“Smoking and drinking "go hand in hand," he said, "because most of all non-smokers are health-conscious and alcohol is bad for you. I'm looking for the [County] Council to ban alcohol next, then french fries ... I just don't think they have a right to tell you how to run your business."

This considered to be a rhetoric extrapolation.  This is where a speaker or writher makes large predictions about the future on basis of facts that are to inconsequential or too few in number to justify the prediction.  Just because they ban one thing, doesn’t mena they are going to go on a banning rage, and ban everything they can think of.

Darrag Johnson used many rhetoric fallacies, such as, bandwagon and .   Bandwagon is where a writer or author uses big numbers, which tries to convince the audience go along with the majority rather than stand alone.  "Secondhand smoke kills 53,000 nonsmokers each year" in the United States, said state Sen. Ida G. Ruben.  Aslo mentioned was that 85 percent of adults in the state do not smoke, which suggests that an even higher percentage of diners must want the ban. By using number like “53,000” and “85 percent,” it sways his audience to the side of non smokers.  This is a common use of rhetoric, although theses number may be true, it only shows on side of the...

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