On 5/6/02 11:55:00 AM, David Hurford wrote:
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>Chapter 2: The Second Week
>Online Writing Exercises
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>Exercise 2.1: Finding the
>Questions
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>1.  In the space below, write
>the title of
>your tentative topic (e.g.
>Internet addiction)
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>-against cigarette advertising
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>2.  Briefly state why you
>chose this topic.
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>I choose this topic because I
>knew
>there would be alot of
>information and
>because it interests me. I
>agree that
>advertisements of ciggerettes
>should be
>banned for proven ties between
>smoking
>and advertising. If it's
>proven that
>advertising smoking results in
>more
>smokers than it should
>automatically be
>banned even if it is someone's
>personal
>rights.
>
>
>3.  Spend about five minutes
>listing what
>you already know (if anything)
>about your
>topic. For example, are you
>aware of any
>interesting facts, common
>misconceptions, your own
>assumptions,
>important people or
>institutions involved,
>key schools of thought, the
>extent of the
>problem, current trends, etc.?
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>- I know that in the past
>years smoking
>has increased a great deal.
>Also it is
>proven that the more
>advertisements of
>smoking you have the more
>smokers will
>begin. People who object to
>this decision
>are either people who are
>strong
>smokers or people who are
>involved in
>the advertising of
>ciggerettes. I think that
>if the advertising of
>ciggerettes is directly
>linked to the increase in
>smokers then is
>should be banned. This will
>be a hard
>topic to get to the middle of
>because
>nearly every ciggerrette
>company is
>backed with millions and
>millionsof
>dollars
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>
>4. Now spend at least
>fifteen minutes
>brainstorming a list of
>questions about
>your topic you’d love to learn
>the answers
>to. Make this list as long as
>you can, and
>don’t worry whether every
>question is a
>good one.
>
>-When did ciggerette $
>advertisements
>begin?
>
>-How many teenagers smoke $
>today?
>
>-How many teenagers smoked
>five years
>ago?
>
>-Are there some companies who
>dont
>advertise because they dont $
>think it's
>right?
>
>-How many ciggerette companies
>advertise smoking?
>
>-How much money is spent each
>year on
>advertising ciggerettes? $
>
>-What are some anti-smoking
>organizations?
>
>-What could be done to stop
>ciggerette
>advertisements?
>
>-How much has ciggerrette
>polution
>increased in the last year?
>
>-Has the average age of
>smokers
>increased or decreased in
>recent years?
>
>-What would happen if
>ciggerette
>advertisements stopped? $
>
>-What cities in the United
>States have the
>biggest teenager smoking
>percentage?
>
>-What cities have the most $
>cigerette
>advertisents?
>

I think your idea on finding out how much money is spent on smoking has alot of potential. Here we can see how influential ads are and how important they are to the companies. Here you can lead into the rest of your ideas about how many teenagers smoke, where advertisment came from, etc.
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