Week 9/10: Chapter 7 Question 2

Antonia Novello used cause and effect inductive reasoning by first using the statistics of how the number of teens and children smoking was increasing when the Joe Camel cigarette ads were marketed in the late eighties. Because of that statistic, she assumed that there was a problem with the increasing chances of smoking. She then took action by educating students at schools and banning alcohol and cigarette ads that were directed towards children and teenagers. In other words, the cause was that the cigarette ads were causing more teens and children to smoke. Her conclusion or the effect was if those advertisements were to continue, more children will probably smoke. Therefore, keeping those ads out of sight from teens would probably lower the number of teens smoking.  She used the cause and effect inductive reasoning in preventing smoking amongst the youth by looking at the statistics first which were up-to-date and reliable. Her conclusion was also logical and thus, she achieved in lowering that statistic.