A photo with blurred surroundings showed that a woman, holding the burning cigarette with the half face and slightly messy hair is apparently smoking in public space. The photo took by Ernest Doroszuk appeared before the article, "Banning smokers: Enough is enough," published in 2013 in the Toronto sun.com. The editor argued that although smoking kills people, it remains legal so that neither organizations nor people have rights to prohibit it and banning smokers can't effectively prevent the youth from the image of seeing people smoke. Plenty of pathos helps arouse emotions or create images in readers’ mind and citing authority and stating author’s opinion helps persuade readers reasonably and sets credibility.
One crucial rhetorical appeal in this article is pathos. For instance, the editor establishes a promise by saying no matter what, people should not smoke. This sentence is firm enough to appeal the feelings that smoke is horrible and also has a strong contrast with tobacco still legal, which seems conflicting and makes people curious about what happens next. To call emotions,
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Throughout the article, the author stresses the arguments by citing the idea from authority and stating plenty of reasoning sentences to convince the reader that banning smokers cannot solve the real problem. One such quotation is "Images of people smoking in public spaces normalize smoking in the minds of children and youth from Toronto Medical Office of Health," he indicates that even authority knows no policy can fundamentally solve the problem. Another is "At some point, we need the young — and for that matter everyone — to employ good judgment and common sense when it comes to making decisions about their personal health and behaviour." These illustrate that we cannot always try to prevent something bad happened but built right values and ability to tell good and evil help reduce the rate of smoke and prevent youth from being