Persuasive Speech On Coke

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Choca-Cola Did you know that 3 minutes of mediocre soda leads to a short life of heart problems, discomfort, and pain? Well, that's what I'm here for, not to scare you, but to inform you on coke and it's side effects. The sugars in coke and other sodas really damages the human body. Did you know that within 10 minutes of consumption of a 12 oz bottle of coke 10 ounces of sugar hit your system, I'm sure this isn't what you paid for. When the sugar immediately is sent to your liver, which then causes a strike of penicillin through your organs. That right there actually kills over 40 people a year! I know that doesn't seem like much, but that's just the first ten minutes of soda! Not to mention the biggest reason of all. People who drink a lot of coca-cola often have issues with chest pains. I was one of those people. I drank 4-5 cans of diet dew, coke, …show more content…

First, I would like to start out with sharing that some people actually do better being hooked on coke. Professional Golfer Peter Lawries says, "When I kicked my habit of drinking a litre a day (of coke), my form slumped." When people do worse with coke, that is not because coke is good, its because they are so hooked they need the constant sugar rush. It takes 3-5 weeks, depending on how much you drink, to actually recover and function from drinking coke. Another fact, a man named John Pemberton put a kind of cocaine in wine and noticed that the mix was sensational, but what he didn't know was that when the two things mixed, they make a substance call Cocaethylene, which is cocaine but with more euphoria. then, he set off to make his first soft drink containing drugs, he called it coca-cola. Of course, today there are none of those drugs in coca-cola, but they did not discontinue this awful drink until the late 70's. Even though they took out most of the drugs, they left the stuff in them that gets you hooked, called ecgonine