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Smoking causes cancer because my father was a smoker and he died of lung cancer.
Hasty Generalization
Ad in Food and Wine for American Express, showing comedian Jerry Seinfeld with a number of presumably new purchases--an armchair, a globe, a laptop computer, a mountain bike, and so forth: “A Cardmember Goes Shopping. The American ExpressR is welcome at all kinds of places. Just ask Jerry, who uses his Card for everyday items, as well as for the things that make him, well, Jerry. In fact, it’s so widely accepted, Jerry uses it wherever he goes. No kidding.”
Appeal to celebrity
"The government should not prohibit drugs. Otherwise, the government should also ban alcohol or cigarettes. And then fatty food and junk food would have to be regulated too. The next thing you know, the government would force us to brush our teeth and do exercises every day.
Slippery Slope Fallacy
It’s important that every family be protected by a whole life-insurance plan. After all, what would happen if you died? Your family would be destitute and would probably end up on welfare.
Slippery Slope Fallacy
How could an employer be so cruel as to fire a worker like Robert Gonzalez? Of course, his absenteeism has been significant, and he has difficulty getting to work on time. And it’s true that customers have complained about his rudeness. But he has seven children to support, house payments to make, and college loans to repay.
Appeal to Pity
Pine Valley should round up all the homeless sleeping on the streets and make them live in shelters; otherwise, the city will just be a magnet for all destitute people from all over the country. They will flock to our town and eventually overwhelm our municipal social services.
Either-or Fallacy
I'm not going to vote for Senator Snortum in his re-election bid even if his proposal to improve the state's transportation system seems sensible. Last year his wife accused him of having an affair, and now I hear their marriage is rocky.
Non-Sequitur
Concerning the question of whether the Miss America Pageant should retain the swimsuit segment of the annual competition, one swimsuit-enthusiast posted a message on the pageant’s Internet bulletin board saying that the swimsuit competition should be retained because it allowed judges to determine if a contestant was healthy.
Non-Sequitur Fallacy
She promises to balance the budget if we vote for her as a governor, but she couldn’t be smart enough because she never ran a business.
Ad Hominem
FINAL JEOPARDY
"We shouldn’t trust the findings of this linguistics study on language change because the lead researcher is known for supporting non-standard dialects, and clearly someone with that bias cannot produce objective research."
Ad Hominem