Journal 6: Cigarettes

I used a photo of a cigarette and created my own graphic of blood dripping from the tip of it. Obviously this is to represent an anti-cigarette view. The blood is in some ways an index for death and in some ways a symbol. Blood is present sometimes when death occurs, just as the book's example of smoke is present when a fire occurs. However not every instance of blood involves death and not every instance of death involves blood, so the blood is also a symbol that people have learned to associate with death, suffering, and illness. I chose to keep the background white because I wanted the focus to be the color red in the blood graphic.