Godbold 1 Isha Godbold October 14, 2013 Rhetorical Analysis Dr.

Duffus E- Smoking Among Teenagers E- Smoking, otherwise known as Electronic Cigarettes has become more popular among teenagers in the last couple of years. This article explains how the amount of middle and high school students using electronic cigarettes has increased, particularly due to the fact that electronic cigarettes were invented. This might be because instead of smoking paper rolled in tobacco, teenagers have the option of smoking an attractive battery powered device containing liquid nicotine, that has various fruit and candy flavors to choose from. Electronic Cigarette makers claim that smoking their product is safer, opposed to regular cigarettes, but this is still dangerous because this product is legal for people under the age of 18 to buy in some states. In E-Smoking Among Teens, with an unknown author, the thesis of this article is explaining how teenagers are becoming more attracted to the idea of smoking due to the appearance of the electronic cigarette. Teenagers are also drawn in because of the various fruits and candy flavors, the celebrities that endorse the product, and the themes that are appealing to people around their age. E-Smoking Among Teens provides an example of logos when the writer states But nicotine delivered in any manner can impair adolescent brain development, is extremely addictive and can be dangerous at very high doses (The Editorial Board). I feel like the writers goal was to persuade the audience that tobacco companies are trying

Godbold 2 to make money off teenagers, and have their product sold even if it is damaging our upcoming generation. Emotion is used throughout this article, even starting with the title. Using emotion in the article is an example of pathos. When a topic involves a child, emotion is automatically drawn to anyone who knows of a child or has their own child, because the individual puts themselves in a what if it was my child allusion. I think the fact that the words smoking, teenagers, children, high school, and middle school are involved in the same paragraph draws emotions. When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a notable increase in their use by high school and middle school students. A national survey found that the percentage of high school students who had ever smoked e-cigarettes jumped to 10 percent in 2012 from 4.7 percent in 2011; for middle school students (grades six to eight), the figure rose to 2.7 percent from 1.4 percent (The Editorial Board). The article includes The Center for Disease Control and Preventions insight on this topic based on the research they found, as well as their expertise. At the very beginning of the article the author decides to leap in by starting his argument with an example of ethos. Overall, the flow of this article is purposely planned out. The author uses pathos throughout the whole article, ethos at the beginning, and logos to make sense and use logic. The strength of the articles argument was the emotion used throughout and having the topic being about teenagers. The weakness was not elaborating more about the health risks our upcoming generation is experiencing every time they inhale the electronic cigarette. The author could have improved his argument by talking more about how the

Godbold 3 death rate would increase and the birth rate would decrease. In general the argument was effective and would get more people involved.

Godbold 4 Works Cited The Editorial Board. E-Smoking Among Teenagers. New York Times. 15 Sept. 2013. Web. 14 Oct. 2013.