There's nothing like a graphic demonstration of the consequences of smoking to turn the stomach and the teen from the cigarette
Try as hard as you may, no matter how eloquent you may be, so matter how striking your description of the dangers of smoking, your words just can't beat an image of the effects of smoking on the body. For one thing, you're asking the listener to imagine something they have never seen. Similes just don't bring out the horrible damage smoking does to the human body. What better way to make the point when trying to keep our children away from tobacco and provoke our adults to drop the habit and breathe again, then by showing them the effect graphically?
The dangers of smoking can best be shown through images of the damage it does. Show them what the hairy tongue of smoking looks like, and show them one covered with cancer. There's one poster that shows both, one showing a whitened tongue in the upper half, the same tongue two months later, coated in yellow-green cancer. Another poster shows a young girl smoking, and, as if openings in her body, places where smoking is doing its damage, the brain, the lips, the heart, the stomach, the lung, all in a cancerous or weakened state. These are just some of the many pictures that can be purchased for instruction on the dangers of smoking, compelling to say the least, chilling might be the better word.
Pictures are indeed compelling, but just as compelling are samples of a tobacco polluted body. There is one product, a transparent, plastic jar half filled with a soup of tar, nicotine, and cigarette butts, a nauseating image of the cause of chronic obstructive lung disease, one of those terrible dangers of smoking that we cannot see with our bare eyes. This model depicts one year's use of cigarettes at twenty a day. One look at this thing, and you'll want to stay far, far away from cigarettes.
Perhaps the most convincing example of the dangers of smoking is a simulated smoker's lung. There's one that has a small set of transparent lungs, plastic, over an ashtray. When you burn a cigarette in the ash tray, you can actually watch this lung turn brown. Another one is an inflatable swine lung that has been stained to show the effects. Most cogent is the one that shows a healthy lung, pink and smooth, and a lung blackened by tobacco smoke. Makes you choke to see it, but it's designed to turn smokers and potential smokers away from this still cruel killer of all ages.
If you want to give the potential smoker the experience of smoking a cigarette, you can get a product that is a plastic cigarette. When the user inhales through it, it cause air hunger at once. Here's what you're buying into, a life of gagging.
All these products are available on the internet and are recommended, along with your speech and descriptions, to impact the endangered smoker or potential smoker with the truth about smoking, that it causes death.
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