This is a sample speech using Monroe's Motivated Sequence

I Attention

A. Attention Getter: Adrian was a smoker for more than 30 years and had his entire tongue removed through surgery in March 2007 due to mouth cancer. The tongue was replaced by a flap of skin and muscle from his stomach but he has been unable to eat or drink anything since his operation and He only has six months to live according to a press release by the New Zealand government on June 02, 2008. Adrian bravely shares his story to the world in hopes that he can prevent others from smoking.

B. Topic: Today I am going to persuade you not to smoke.

C. Even if you do not currently smoke, smoking is the single most preventable cause of death and disease. Cigarettes cause more deaths than cocaine, auto accidents, AIDS, alcohol, heroin, fire, suicide and homicide combined, according to anti-smoking.org updated daily. We all have an obligation to inform those we know and love what they are doing to their bodies and ours.

D. To fully understand the problems with smoking we will first look at why we need to stop smoking, how to satisfy this need, and then visualize a world without smoking and finally taking action to end smoking.

II Need

•  Smoking targets teens-In most cases, the decision to smoke is not made by adults. Sixty percent of smokers start by the age of 14, and 90% of smokers are firmly addicted before reaching age 19. Stated another way, only one in ten smokers become addicted after the age of 19. So, almost no one starts smoking after age 19. According to http://www.anti-smoking.org/ . This means that the companies are still selling and advertising to those they are not suppose to advertise to.

•  Smoking causes health problems-According to kidshealth.org updated daily, Almost everyone knows that smoking causes cancer, emphysema, and heart disease; that it can shorten your life by 10 years or more; and that the habit can cost a smoker thousands of dollars a year.

•  Second hand smoke is an issue-According to the Mayo Clinic online updated daily, The Surgeon General reported in 2006 that scientific evidence shows there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke.

III Satisfaction

•  Don't start smoking

•  Talk to you kids about smoking

•  Restaurants and Bars can ban smoking

•  More money can be spent on anti-smoking campaigns

IV Visualization

•  Imagine going into your favorite club and being able to breathe in the perfume of the person you are dancing with and not smoke from the bar. You are able to see the dance floor because there is not the blue haze of second hand smoke in the air. Even though you have been dancing all night you are able to breathe because you are not coughing from all of the cigarette smoke. You leave the club and you are not allergic to your hair or clothes because they do not carry that stale cigarette smell.

•  This could be you in a nice environment where no ones lungs are violated by smoke when people are just trying to have a good time.

V Action

  A. Start supporting organizations that are trying to end smoking. In its June 27 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the CDC summarized data from its most recent Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which found that cigarette use among teens was consistent between 2003 and 2007, according to Fox News, June 30, 2008. However that means that cigarette companies are putting more and more money to get their numbers back up. We have to fight them using anti smoking organizations.

  B. Support Smoking bans in public places. M ore than two billion fewer cigarettes were smoked and 400,000 people quit the habit since the ban was introduced a year ago, (in England) which researchers say will prevent 40,000 deaths over the next 10 years, according to Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor of The Independent. Many cities in the US are trying to follow their lead. A co-alition that includes the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society will seek to have bars included in a ban (in Dallas Texas ). A poll it sponsored showed that more than 70-percent of Dallas voters would support an overall public smoking ban, according to the article Anti-Smoking Coalition To Push For Comprehensive Smoking Ban in Dallas Jun 30, 2008. Start and support campaigns that prevent smoking in public places.

  C. Don't Smoke and stop if you do. Even though it can be hard you will be makin gyouself an dyour world healthier.