Malama Kamara
Speech 100
Section 094
4/28/09
Topic: Drinking irresponsible.
Specific Idea: To persuade my audience to stop drinking to much alcohol.
Central idea : too much drinking alcohol has cause many deaths in the united states, especially college students.
Introduction
I. Drinking irresponsible is dangerous or even deadly. Through homicide, suicide, car accidents and rapes. Most of this irresponsible drinking happens at parties, when they are stress out or when they are hanging out with friends. Especially college students.
II. During my research for today according to www.hsph.harvard.edu. I found out that nearly 6000,000 college students are victims of alcohol in the United States, and nearly 75% of female rape victims were rape while intoxicated. In addition to that, hundreds of thousands of students engage in unsafe sex while intoxicated and that is a risk for STDs or unwanted pregnancy. Most college students commit suicide, like 2004 1.2-1.5 students attempt suicide while their were intoxicated.
III. Drinking irresponsible can damage you in many ways and am here to share that with you.
Main point
Lets me give the first reason why we should drink responsible
I. During my research at , I found out that drinking too much alcohol take control over your senses. Vision, smell, taste and hearing become less acute. This is a big effect that you don’t want to have.
i. When the alcohol takes over your senses, you don’t understand any thing at that time. Sometimes you will end up doing things that you wouldn’t do when you are not drunk. And you might end up getting kill. The reason why accident take place after drinking irresponbly is because the alcohol has control there sense, they are getting less vision. They can’t see clearly. Most females get rape because they have taken in so much alcohol and it has control their senses. They don’t see, or hear any thing.
ii. Because of only losing your sense from drinking irresponsible, you can affect yourself in many ways, accident, rape, suicide and so many bad things. You don’t know what you are doing because alcohol has taking over your senses. If you would have drink responsible, this wouldn’t happen.
Know let me give you my second reason why we should drink alcohol responsibly.
II. During my research at www.alcoholics-anonymous.org I found out that alcohol affects the reproductive systems.
i. For us women, it affects our menstruation circle, by menstruation disorders, including cramps and heavy or irregular period and reduced the vaginal lubrication. It also increased the risks of having children with fetal alcohol syndrome [FAS].
ii. For men, it affects them by decreasing their supreme and not only that but also affects the testicular atrophy and reduced erection response.
iii. When our reproductive system is affected, we are in danger of having children or a normal child and also in danger for sexual activities that goes for the men. This happens because of drinking irresponsible.
Know let me move to my third problem why we should drink responsible.
III. According to www.alcoholics-anonymous.org absorbing too much alcohol, which is drinking irresponsibly damage the brain. This is one of the important parts of the body.
i. Absorbing too much alcohol completely damage your brain by destroying the brain cell, impaired memory, loss of sensation in limbs and brain atrophy. When your brain is damage, you can’t do anything about it. It’s to late. Only 10% of 100% lives after their brain has been damage from drinking too alcohol.
ii. When we drink irresponsibly this is one of the bad problem that cause our lives.
Know let me move forward to my last reason why we should drink responsible.
IV. I found out at www.cancer.org that drinking too much alcohol increased the risk of cancer.
i. People who drink a lot are particularly vulnerable to cancer of the throat, larynx, esophagus, upper stomach, liver and pancreas.
ii. Drinking three or more alcohol beverages per day doubles a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer.
iii. For both men and women their at a risk of getting cancer of breast, mouth, throat.
iv. Alcoholic have a cancer rate about ten times higher than that of the general population. Most people get cancer because of alcohol.
Solution
I. Drink moderately and responsibly
i. Drink slowly and sip your drinks. Sip your drinks, and alternate them with nonalcoholic choices like red wine, that good for you body, it help prevent damage from the body but not too much. Don’t drink alcoholic beverages to quench your thirst, avoid drinks made with carbonated mixers. And make sure when you are drinking mostly add ice to it. It decreases the strongness of the alcohol.
ii. Eat before and while drinking. Don’t drink on an empty stomach. Food in your stomach will slow the rate at which alcohol is absorbed and thus often lower the peak BAC. [Blood alcohol concentration].
iii. Know your limit and your drinks. Learn how different BACs affect you and how to keep your BAC and behavior under control.
iv. Learn to enjoy activities without alcohol. If you can have fun without alcohol then it will be very hard for you to get effect because sometimes you don’t want to drink but most of the drinks at parties are alcohol and if you can’t have fun without drinking, you may have a problem with alcohol.
v. Make sure you put ice in your alcohol before you drink it.
Conclusion
I. Finally, drinking irresponsible can cause you death and bad things. Drinking responsible is a good thing we should do because it prevents us from get hurt. Many people drink for fun or different reason. But you are hurting yourself. Anything that can cause you your life is not fun. We see people die because of care accident, female getting rape and some are attempting suicide.
II. College students have die so much from drinking irresponsibly and we need to start drinking responsible to prevent ourselves from diseases, accidents, rape bad thing that won’t happen to us when we drink responsible.