Claim: Public smoking should be banned
Data: Causes many health problems
Grounds: Lung cancer, obesity, heart problems
Warrant: Smoking should be banned in public places in order to protect individuals and chrildren from the effects of tobacco
Backing: Children and babies have no choice about inhaling adults’ smoke, They are at greater risk for repsiratory and ear infections, second hand smoke contains five regulated hazardous air pollutants, more than fifty known cancer-causing agents
Qualifier: “may cause”, Typically
Conditions for rebut: Unless the people around the smokers don’t mind the smoking
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2003/jul/04/smoking.publichealth
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I think everything works here, except the warrant could be more explicitly connected to the data and claim. The warrant that connects these two:
ReplyDeleteClaim: Public smoking should be banned
Data: Causes many health problems
would be something like:
Warrant: the government should ban things that cause health problems.
You see this same warrant in places where they are banning trans-fats from food because of health issues, for instance.