Utterly revolting Australian anti-smoking ad.

[Bereta_Eder]

Do you people "who live down under" have seen it?

Isn't it terminally disgusting?

The one with the heart and the artery and that ooze coming out of it?


I had to light one up just to relax!


Anyway,
do you think that such "shocking value" ads are any effective?

[DaShi]

What? They don't have "If you smoke, you support terrorism" ads?

[Bereta_Eder]

The ad was actually the terrorist in that case

[Bereta_Eder]

ooops 3rd thread, sorry forgot

erase one of the others if you please and kindly forgive me

[Boris Godunov]

Smoking is utterly revolting, so the ad is appropriate.

[Bereta_Eder]

Not if it doesn't help any?

[Asher]

IIRC, cartons of cigarettes on Canada now (or will soon) include graphic pictures of smoking-diseases next to the warning badge...

[Bereta_Eder]

There is also an EU law about that that will come into effect in the next years.

[Asher]

The best stop-smoking ads I've seen are the ones where people dying from cancer talk and beg people to quit smoking.

Particularly powerful is the one with the 50 year old waitress, who never smoked herself, but worked hard in a restaurant for her children all her life and the second-hand smoke is literally killing her.

She doesn't have much more to live. She was crying in the commercial too.

Plus the woman from Edmonton in the commercials who is completely bald, ~40 years old, mother -- dying from cancer again. She was talking about how she's able to pick the music for her funeral and all that because she knows how she's going to die and when, and begs people to quit smoking...

If those don't impact you, you should seek help.

[DaShi]

I like the one with the dancing cigarette that says, "Please don't burn me!"

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by paiktis22
Not if it doesn't help any?

It helps me. Thanks to such imagery, I've stayed far away from smoking.

[MikeH]

I find the ads with the more immediate impact work better. I can't imagine being 40 but I can imagine feeling fitter and being able to breath and run and stuff. So I quit.

[Grrr]

Smoking is filthy.

And for some reason ... many people of my age are doing it again ... cause it's cool ! Yuk ... 40% of students at my school smoke, mainly the good looking girls.

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Grrr
Smoking is filthy.

And for some reason ... many people of my age are doing it again ... cause it's cool ! Yuk ... 40% of students at my school smoke, mainly the good looking girls.

mmmhhh... licking one hot assed ash tray...

[MattyBoy]

I hate these ad's too, paiktis.
I don't smoke, so why should I have to put up with them.

The same applies to tampon ad's, but at least they usually look good.