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Originally Posted by Eli18
a persuasive speech
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Alright, a couple questions. What is the length expectation on your speech? 4-6 mins? Less, more?
Have you outlined 3 arguments (3 "points") that help support your main premise (i.e. pipe smoking is a safe alternative to cigarettes)?
Perhaps with your class they don't require you to utilize 3 different points supporting your central argument, I don't know. But, if you argument centers on pipe smoking as safer, it may be difficult to come up with 3 distinct points supporting that argument. What you might be able to do is broaden your discussion a bit and have your central premise as "Pipe smoking is a preferable alternative to smoking cigarettes because 1) you get MORE for less money 2) it is more environmentally sound & 3) pipe smoking is actually SAFER for health of the smoker than cigarettes.
So you could elaborate in #1 about the price of an average carton of cigarettes, which is approx what? $40? And there's, what? 10 packs/carton. Well, if someone smokes 1 pack/day that's only 10 days worth of smoke. But let's say you get you a relatively cheap pipe ~$20 Dr. Grabow & maybe 4oz of tobacco at your local B&M for $15. Total investment $35. That smoke is likely going to last much longer, provide more sustained smokes (~60mins) and require even less investment the next purchase b/c they won't HAVE to buy a new pipe, just more tobacco; whereas, the cigarette smoker has to re-invest $40 on another carton of cigs. You could also do some math on the average amount of tobacco (e.g. what fraction of an ounce is smoked in an average-sized bowl) to discern how long 4oz of tobacco would last if someone smoked 2 bowls/day - or something to that effect.
In two you could discuss the fact that pipe tobacco provides an environmentally clean smoke (i.e. no cigarette butts to clutter up the house, car, dorm room, work place break-room, etc). Simply a white ash. You could prob stretch it some to try to figure out estimated wildfires resulting from cigarettes vs. those resulting from suspected pipe issues (It's a bit of a strech, but not terribly unreasonable)
And then point 3 close it up w/all the info you're locating for the SAFER alternative argument.
Anyway, just my perspective on it. Let me know if you have anymore questions.