Analyzing King's Essay 'I' D Rather Smoke Than Kiss

While reading the King essay “I'd Rather Smoke than Kiss” King goes talks about how smoking affected her youth, life today, and even her love life. She also touches on anti-smokers and the role they play in society. While king's essays is a fun to read, it is full of errors and fully emotional based.

In this essay King’s main point is that smoking is not bad because she smokes and nothing dreadful has happened to her because of her habit. For instance, in the essay king states, “She made no effort to cut down while she was pregnant with me, but I was not a low-birth-weight baby.” Going to show how she feels smoking has no bad side effects since when her mother was pregnant, she continued to smoke, and she was born weighing nine pounds

Trying to paint a picture that smoking is a pleasure and pleasure is good for you. For instance, in the essay King says, “I believe life should be savored rather than lengthened, and I am ready to fight the misanthropes among us who are trying to make me switch.” Going to shows she believes smoking is an enjoyment in life and that people, Anti smokers, and smokist are just looking for a scapegoat. King also says that these anti smokers do not hate smoking, they hate smokers. Painting anti smokers as bad people who do not care about people, they are just looking for someone to judge. Showing how she simply only uses words full of emotion, nothing about this essay is factual. Another flaw in Kings essay as she attempts to try and persuade people by grasping for sympathy. Relying solely on pathos, no other form of appeal is used in her essay making her paper even less creditably. The only reason she is using pathos is because she knows that there is no logical explanation as to why smoking is not harmful to others. She also does not have any actual credentials to speak on the subject or even someone with the credentials to support her argument. Resulting in the absence of Ethos in her

This is obvious because her argument would only appeal to people who are also smokers. By stating things such as the pleasant memories she has had in life involving smoking such as sharing a cigarette with a lover after sex. She also says things like if someone once to die that is their choice parading around the same argument, she has been relying on her entire essay that people need to mind their own business and that smoking is a pleasure in life and people should leave her alone and let her live her life. But what king conveniently forgets to mention is the fact that secondhand smoke is dangerous and can harm others around you. Because of this smoking is no longer one person's sole problem it becomes a problem for the public. If king heard this, the only argument she could make is that her mother smoked when she was pregnant, implying she smoked around her growing up and she is fine. Which is a completely arrogant statement full of selfishness and narcissism. Going to show another defect in her