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Surviving the age of fear

The main contention of the article is to indicate to the public that terrorism is a small factor in life and that there are other grater risks of dieing such as smoking, obesity, road travel and so on.

Persuasive methods, which are used in the article, are statistics, facts, and professional opinion.
Statistics are given to present that 300,000 American are dying each year of obesity, but only 3,000 died from terrorist attacks.
Facts are given by pointing out what Mr. Howard had said in past, which was not to be alarmed but alert about terrorism.
But now he is telling the natio...