(Watson General Tire)

When first looking at the sign that says “NO SMOKING” it gets the point across and is very simple. When you look at how the creator of the sign is trying to get people to not smoke you will realize that it is not very affective. I believe this sign is not very affective because most people do not like someone else telling them what they need to do or in this case what they cannot do. When people disobey this sign it does not only offend the creator it will also offend nonsmokers. The stakeholders of this sign I think would be the company that has it posted on their property. In this case I got the sign from Watson General Tire where I work. And I personally know that the “NO SMOKING” signs do not stop people from smoking where they are not supposed to. They are posted all over the shop and a lot of the workers will still stand next to one of the sign and smoke.

There are many ways that the “NO SMOKING” signs could be improved. The designer of this sign should have been working with a smoker, or more than one smoker to help design a sign that would help keep people from smoking in public places and at least fifteen feet away from doors and entrances. As a smoker I know what would keep me from smoking where I am not supposed to, and all that it would take is a sign that would say either “Please, No Smoking” or “No Smoking Please” if the creators of the signs would work with smokers to find a happy medium like my suggestions then I believe that there would be less problems with people smoking where they are not supposed to be smoking.