Cedar Hill Prep School

Hello, my name is Ryan Johnson and I am telling you why we should abolish the penny.

Assertion: Every Penny counts.

Reason: If you were $0.01 short of what you wanted to get, a penny is the perfect thing.

Evidence: Most things today cost x dollars and 99 cents. There is no 4 cent coin. That is why we have pennies.

Assertion: Without pennies you pay more.

Reason: If you were buying candy that costs $0.99 and then a slice of pizza that costs $4.96. If there were no pennies then that would mean you would no get exact change. In my example you would lose 5 cents.

Evidence: People like money. If you keep the penny you get more money. Don't forget, every penny counts.

Again my name is Ryan Johnson and the opposition team has won this debate.

Hello, my name is Ryan Johnson and I will be telling you why pennies should be abolished.

Assertion: You can not buy anything today from a store today for a penny.

Reason: Pennies are just worth so little that people can give ten of them away and would not care. If people don't care why should the U.S. mint care?

Evidence: At BJ's a pack of jelly beans costs about $10.00. That is 100 pennies. You have to have a lot of pennies.

Assertion: It costs more for the U.S. mint to make pennies than how much people pay using pennies.

Reason: Not a lot of people use pennies anymore. It costs to much to make them if nobody uses them.

Evidence: Pennies cost 2.4 cents to make.With nearly 5 billion pennies minted in 2011, the U.S. spent almost $120 million to produce less than $50 million of circulating currency.

Again my name is Ryan Johnson and the proposition team has won this debate.

Hello my name is Ryan Johnson and I am on the opposition side of this debate. I will be telling you why cigarettes should not be illegal.

Assertion: People will always use cigarettes no matter what.

Reason: People can sell cigarettes in the black market. Drugs are illegal. Guess what? People still use them. What make you think that people will not use cigarettes if drugs are being use even know they are "banned".

Evidence:20 million people have used illegal drugs in the last month.

(drugscope.org.uk/how-many-people-use-drugs/)

Assertion 2: There has to be another way to stop people from using cigarettes with banning them.

Reason: Some states like New Jersey have risen the price of cigarettes. This means people have to pay more. This may make them stop to think if it is worth it.

Evidence: A pack of cigarettes in New Jersey now costs over $20.00. In 2013 they costed $8.55 a pack of cigarettes.(http://www.theawl.com/2013/07/what-a-pack-of-cigarettes-costs-now-state-by-state)

(http://www.state.nj.us/treasury/taxation/pdf/other_forms/mlpcig.pdf)

Again my name is Ryan Johnson. The opposition side has won this debate.

Hello I am Ryan Johnson and I am on the proposition team for this debate. This mean I will be telling you why cigarettes should be made illegal.

Assertion: Cigarettes have substances including poison, detergent, rocket fuel, and moth repellent.

Reason: More than 6 million people die from cigarettes a year. 48,000 die a year in the U.S.A. 600,00 people die from inhaling the fumes of cigarettes a year. People do not only die from smoking them. (American Cancer Society)

Evidence: Over 4000 chemical compounds are created by burning a cigarette – 69 of those chemicals are known to cause cancer. Cigarettes are a delivery system for toxic chemical and carcinogens.(http://www.tricountycessation.org/tobaccofacts/Cigarette-Ingredients.html)

Assertion 2: Cigarettes causes diseases and problems in your body.

Reason: A couple of diseases include Cancer, heart disease, stroke, atherosclerosis, and peripheral vascular disease. Cigarettes cause oral and periodontitis.

Evidence: Cigarettes robs you of some of your good cholesterol. Cigarettes temporarily raises your blood pressure. Cigarettes increases the blood’s clotting likelihood. Cigarettes makes it more difficult to exercise.(http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/ GettingHealthy/QuitSmoking/QuittingSmoking/How-Cigarettes-Damage-Your-Body UCM322735_Article.jsp)

Assertion 3: Your kids suffer from you.

Reason: Thousands of kids every day have to go to hospitals everyday from inhaling smoke from cigarettes.

Evidence: When you use cigarettes around kids the kids:

have an increased risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS or cot death).

have more respiratory infections such as bronchitis, bronchiolitis and pneumonia.

have an increased risk of slower lung growth.

have an increased risk of middle ear diseases.

have an increased risk of wheezing, coughing and breathlessness.

(https://www.icanquit.com.au/health/family-and-community-concerns/second-hand-smoke/smoking-around-children)

If you smoke think about what you do to people other than you. Again my name is Ryan Johnson and the proposition has won this debate.