Dr. Novello has
overcome obstacles in her past and achieved a lot during her lifetime. She has
helped us realized that tobacco ads have affected the youth in a negative way.
The cause-and-effect inductive reasoning can be applied to this issue. You
recognize the issue, and then find a solution to change it.
Premise 1
(Cause): The number of teens and children who smoked had begun to increase
dramatically in 1988
Premise 2
(cause): when the Joe Camels ads for Camel cigarettes were first introduced.
Conclusion
(effect): More teens and children will begin to smoke if the Camel ads keep
targeting the youth.
Once she saw the
cause of the problem, Dr. Novello came up with a solution. She rallied for
“more education in schools as well as a ban on cigarette and alcohol ads that
targeted the youth” (Boss, pg. 221). She successfully implemented the
cause-and-effect inductive reasoning into her work.
I think that as critical thinkers today, it becomes inevitable for us to use different types of argument, including the inductive reasoning. In the passage on chapter seven of our text, Dr. Novello discusses the issues she has dealt with in the past in her health career. One of the ways she approached this issue is to follow the steps of inductive reasoning, which you showed in your blog entry by breaking the argument down among the premises and the conclusion. I think that approaching almost all problems in this way helps deliver a strong point in the message and you made that clear in your post.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed to read about how Dr. Novello combated younger kids and the issue of smoking. She was able to realize that smoking started using cartoon ads that attracted younger kids and she knew right away that she had to find a way to put a stop to it. She combated it by using facts and statistics to show that the rate of the youth smoking was going up. She was able to use inductive reasoning to persuade people that this was a major health issue for the younger generations. She was successful in her crusade to ban the Joe Camel ads from airing on television.
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