Higuera's article on Healthline is about throat cancer, which consists of two categories: pharyngeal and laryngeal cancer (Higuera). The pharyngeal cancer is the pharynx, which is the hollow tube that runs from behind the nose to the top of the windpipe (Higuera). Laryngeal cancer is the larynx, which is your voice box (Higuera). The website offers various links which take you to another Healthline page referencing some type of cancer or medical illness. The author seems credible due to having written articles for the Healthline website as well as other websites that are also about health-related medical conditions. The website has a contact us email address and a phone number that is legitimate. This article was written within the last year so it is current.
“I Never Thought Smoking Would Do This.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.gov, United States Department of Health and Human Services, 1 Feb. 2017, www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/cessation/quitting. …show more content…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a branch of our United States Department of Health and Human Services which is a branch of government (CDC). Since they are a government agency it makes the website a credible and reliable source of data, statistics and facts. The relevance of this page and the advertisement are the factual statistics that if you quit smoking you can reduce your risk of dying from cancer. This website started the quit now campaign in 2012 and was recently updated in February 2017 which makes the contents relevant to the issues of today with quitting smoking