Smoking Cigarettes Should Be Legal - 1219 Words

Most doctors smoke back then, right? So, you should smoke cigarettes too. If doctors do it, so could you. But is that the case in today’s society? This specific advertisement is addressing to the audience that smoking is okay because doctors are promoting that it is good for you, and it will even enhance your life; however, this is not true. Back then, people thought that smoking a cigarette was not harmful. But in actuality, over the years, it has been found that smoking is harmful to one’s self, and potentially lead to serious complications. The advertisement I chose, More Doctors Smoke Camels than any other Cigarettes, was created in 1946 by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (More Doctors Smoke Camels). This was when smoking was not a†¦show more content†¦By using the specialist as a public figure, the ad builds up its credibility for the audience to trust the company and the product they are offering to the public. It is easy to forget that the practice of smoking tobacco has aroused passionate reactions, both positive and negative, for quite a while. Some doctors claimed that if you smoke a cigarette, it can starve off hunger and depression, cured rheumatic ailments, and is used for lung complaints (Woodhead, A Global History of Smoking). Doctors may not know it at first, but they know now. Smoking is bad for you and could lead you to your death if a person does not stop smoking a cigarette. Smoking has turned into a worldwide fixation following the time when the first Europeans imported tobacco from the New World more than five-hundred years back (Woodhead, A Global History of Smoking). Tobacco is one of the most crucial trade harvests in American farming. It is native to the North and South American continents. At the time when European voyagers in the 15th and 16th centuries set sail to discover findings, they saw tobacco being used as a medicine and as a hallucinogen by Native Americans, and that is how tobacco become known to the rest of the world. (Young, The History of Tobacco and Its Growth throughout the World†). The voyagers returned to Europe with the recently discovered plant and it was immediately used as a