Maria has finished brainstorming and is ready to create an outline for her persuasive essay. The essay will argue for the benefits of adding a health tax for smokers. Which thesis statement would be the most effective for her essay?
A. In 2014, President Barack Obama presented a proposal to raise federal taxes on tobacco, which would help fund preschool education.
B. Federal taxes would add an extra $1.95 to the cost of a pack of cigarettes, which may prevent many people from continuing to smoke.
C. Smoking causes over 400,000 deaths every year, and about 50,000 of those deaths are caused by secondhand smoke.
D. Adding a health tax for smokers will raise the cost of smoking and therefore cause many smokers to give up smoking and reduce secondhand smoke.
E. Smokers and secondhand smokers are more likely to develop heart disease, have a stroke, or struggle with respiratory illnesses.

D

Explanation:

Adding a health tax for smokers will raise the cost of smoking and therefore cause many smokers to give up smoking and reduce secondhand smoke.

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.