A Rhetorical Analysis Of Cigarettes

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One way the author of this piece uses pathos is when he talks about the four million women who get pregnant each and every year and how eighty-two hundred thousand of those women give birth while under the influence of cigarettes. Susser also points out that seventy-six hundred thousand of those females also drink alcohol, and five hundred thousand of them also use illicit drugs during pregnancy. Another way the writer represents pathos is by adding in, “these numbers cannot be added because many women use more than one substance” it really tugs on the heart strings of the readers. When a mother smokes, drinks, or uses drugs during pregnancy, the medical and Medicaid bill to deliver and care for her child can jump up so high that they could