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Tattoo Persuasive Essay

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Tattooing is an ancient tribal tradition practiced by everyone but the Romans and Greeks. It can be a way of expressing one’s self, honouring someone, or telling a story. In Canada, thirty-eight percent of adults have at least one tattoo, that is approximately fourteen million people. Although people have positive reasons for getting tattoo’s, the health risks far outweigh them. Tattoo ink can cause allergic reactions and contribute to obtaining Hepatitis C virus (HCV). Because of the risks of infections, tattooing of the human body should not be practiced in our modern Canadian society.
Now a days, it is rare to find someone without a tattoo on himself. One researcher notes, people who received a tattoo is nine times more likely to obtain Hepatitis C (Franz, 307). It is shocking that with that high of statistics, people still want tattoo’s done. Haley and Fischer state that the risk of HCV infections have to do with many factors; being the size of tattoo, quality, and number on tattoo’s on the body (138). Having said that, even the smallest tattoo can cause pose many risks to one’s health. All it takes is one drop of ink injected into the skin. In an article by Rachel Franz, she claims; “Getting a tattoo could be a key infection route for hepatitis C, the most common chronic viral infection affecting almost 22% of the United States population, according to a study by a university of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researcher (1).” One tattoo litartue writer

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