Dr. Haviland’s A Silence That Kills and Florence King’s I’d Rather Smok

Do you smoke? Such a interrogative sentence has been asked to most people at one time or another. The melodic theme of smoke certainly requires a thorough analysis, whether you smoke or not. Its also an issue which analysems to polarize people. In this reading well compare contrasting viewpoints by two different item-by-items. As I present the arguments, Ill dissect them to truly understand their inner-workings. Both Dr. Haviland and queen touch on many subjects yet seem to ignore others. I think a balance must(prenominal) be struck when it comes to roll of tobacco, both through individual rights and a social responsibility. Id Rather Smoke than Kiss. is Florence Kings very(prenominal) astute retort to anti-smokers. In this writing she advocates for smoking as a simple enjoyable thing to do. To emphasize this she recalls her initiative smoking experience, which is for the most part very normal and unexciting. However, this inconsequential broadsheet is not in dicative of the rest of the story. King quickly switches gears as she goes on the attack. In the first section she labels hatred of smokers as a gain of misanthropy which she goes on to say is the most popular form of closet misanthropy in America today (King 32). This perspective is further augmented by the feature that she considers second-hand smoke an invention a means for the Passive Americans (King 32), to justify injustice towards smokers. As she moves into the second section, she begins to document the hostility shown to smokers. Through her own face-to-face interactions or through examples she views in newspaper articles. King really focuses on the subject of public perception, and while some of the examples validate her perspective, others do not. We see this in her response to a Washington Post article, i... ...r someone to quit. rather of creating ads with the intent purpose to ostracize smokers, we should instead make ads to inform them. The smoking issue is very complicated and some of the arguments are beyond the backcloth of this essay. Still, we can obtain a balanced outlook if we consider the pursual the facts of smoking, individual right, societal responsibility, and the stigma of smoking. Haviland and King write essays which contain very important points, but seem to contain a bias which may alienate some people. To truly reach a consensus on the smoking issue, we must be willing to meet each other halfway. We must strike equilibrium between individual right and societal responsibility. kit and caboodle CitedKing, Martin Luther, Jr. I Have a Dream. Current Issues and Enduring Questions. Ed. turn Whitehurst. Boston Bedford/St. Martins, 2014. 687-690. Print.