+ Question 4th Choice Worth 4 points)
(MC) read the following public service announcement from the United States Department of Health, and answer the question that follows:
Destiny -A Public Service Announcement
Young Girl 1: A 12, I smoked my first cigarette
Young Boy 1: At 15, I was addicted
Teen GiH 2 By 40, I have lung disease.
Teen Boy 2: A4 50, ru have a
a heart attack
Dr. Berjarnin: Cigarette smoke causes immediate damage that leads to health problems, even death. Those who qut or die are being replaced by a new generation of smokers. Today, more than 600.000 middle school students
and 3 million high school students smoke cigarettes
Every day, more than 1,200 people in this country die due to smoking. For each of those deatha, at least two youth or young adults become regular smokers each day. Almost 80% of those replacement um
smokers
smoke their first cigarette by age 18.
Youth are vulnerable to social and environmental infuences to use tobacco, messages and images that make tobacco use appealing to them are everywhere.
I'm Dr Regina Benjamin, United States Surgeon General. Go to odc. com. Learn how to make our next generation tobacco free
Why might the author include the information in the bolded text?
To appeal to the emotions of the audience
o To give the audience useful information
To establish credibility with the audience
To refer to famous people known by the audience