any suggestions for speech .. ?

Question

My speech is on the banning of public smoking. Does anyone haf suggestions or anything on what i could say to introduce my speech that would be interesting ???in my speech there is stuff on positive and negative aspects of smoking so its not all about the banning of it.

Answer 1

Here is my suggestion. Tell your audience that imagine that you just love radiation. Tell them that you don't care what other people say but you yourself just love and crave getting your daily dose of radiation. You love to suck on your source at least once an hour.

Then stop for a second. Look around. Then say, well, it is MY right, isn't it? I mean if I want to irradiate myself, I should be the one to say so. Right? Look at the audience.

Then say, OK, even if you grant that it is my right to irradiate myself and I have a couple of other people who feel the same way I do, don't you want to maybe just put us over somewhere where we don't irradiate you? Maybe where we can just irradiate each other out of the way of everyone else? Maybe we won't irradiate the waitresses and the kids. Maybe we won't teach your kids that it is cool to suck on radioactive sources. Wouldn't that be better?

Now, give them a real dose of reality. Tobacco has polonium (radioactive element) that gives the smoker approximately eight times the daily dose normal background dose per cigarette. A pack and a half a day cigarette smoker gets one and half times the legal radiation dose limits of a non-radiation worker, 8 rem a year to their lungs.

Polonium comes from phosphate mining. The phosphates are used for fertilizer for the tobacco. The tobacco plant picks up the polonium right along with the phosphate.

So if folks want to smoke (and we all know that folks don't want to smoke, they are addicted to smoking), at least keep them away from those of us who don't want to be around the smoke, don't want our kids to be around it. Just like we would keep other folks away from radiation sources.

Personally, I cannot think of anything positive about smoking except it makes the tobacco companies rich.

Answer 2

As the speech is on the banning of public smoking, I would direct it more at the non smokers as it is these people who would help to make something like this happen.

Opening - To all the smokers of the world. I have a few questions to ask you?
1. How would you feel if someone close to you died of a smoking related cancer? from your second hand smoke!!

2. How would you feel if you became ill from someone elses habit???? That you had no control over????

3. How would you like to help millions of non smokers give up the habit with you???

you get my drift

Good luck

Answer 3

You could start out with a story-type of approach. For example, you could say, "Last weekend I went out to a restaurant, but I couldn't enjoy my meal. I was sitting close to the smoking section, and all I could smell was cigarette smoke. It ruined the taste of my food! Has this ever happened to you? Well, it seems like many people have experienced this, and they're fed up with it...." Then you could start talking about the public smoking ban and who is in favor of it. To transition to the other side, you could say, "But then there are people like my uncle who are infuriated by the smoking ban. He has been a smoker for 25 years, and he feels it is a violation of his rights to not be allowed to smoke in public." Then continue on with all the arguments against the smoking ban.

Answer 4

You can talk on how big brother (Government) is controlling our lives by telling us what we can and can not do. How as a free country we should be able to make our own choices with our money by deciding on if we want to patronize a business that allows smoking or not.
If a business wants to allow smoking then that business should be able to hang a sign on their front door announcing that this is a smoking or smoke free establishment and customer would have to honor that choice.

Answer 5

you could say something about a problem happening in the world right now bridflu war stuff or stuffed that happend in the pasted or just type random words in to goole and see what crap you get frmt hat and write a speech with that.

Answer 6

TELL A STORY -- ALMOST ANYTHING WOULD DO. PERHAPS A STORY OR TWO ABOUT SMOKING SITUATIONS YOU MAY HAVE OBSERVED IN PUBLIC OR WITH FRIENDS. GOOD STORIES ALWAYS MAKE A STRONGER SPEECH.

Answer 7

Umm 2nd hand is more harmful to people who don't smoke

Answer 8

Hook sentence: Is smoking a positive or negative thing?

Facts:
*Relieves stress.
*Causes many different types of cancer.
*Harms others who don't smoke.
*Weakens your lungs.
*Cause tooth decay.
*Bad breath.
*Addicting.