Yeah. After all, I’m fugly, wrinkled and sickly… :dubious:
Guess you showed them, uh!
I don’t think Canvas meant that all smokers are fugly, wrinkled and sickly, did you Canvas? Because that 'ol dog has been drug out and beaten more times than I care to remember.
I just think the ads should be realistic and target to kids. They should show the results of smoking while they’re at an age they can see themselves at (none of this “this is you 30 years down the road” shit. That’s easily lost in the “yeah, that’s 30 years down the road, I would’ve so quit by then” mindset). Show someone getting in trouble for stealing cigs (since they’re being targeted at those under 18, right?) getting caught smoking. Their friends thinking it’s lame. Feening for a cig, that kinda stuff.
It is frighteningly (or humurously, depending on your viewpoint) obvious that those in charge of anti-tobacco and anti-drug campaigns are those who have never actually touched the stuff.
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Originally posted by CanvasShoes
I think luc is on to something, only, show unattractive people who are unattractive because of smoking. The wrinkles, the ill health, the lingering death that is lung cancer. Show the actual results of lung disease, the cross sections of diseased lungs and so on.
Hey don’t shoot the messenger.
http://www.mercola.com/2000/apr/16/cigarettes_and_skin.htm
Sigh
Oh, Canvas, lets not do this again…
I’d never shoot you, my dear. That’s why I included the dubious face!
I was just poking fun at the idea of showing ugliness to kiddies. For every geezer hacking up a lung, there are a dozen pretty bastards like me merrily puffing away… 
lezlers, I know it’s a dead horse. I’m not a total bastard.
It’s because I haven’t had my nic fix yet today.
Huh? Did I do this before? Or do you just mean smoking debates in general?
FTR Mr. B, I was really meaning the 'black lung" type pics, more than smoker’s face. I’m sure you’re a very handsome and nice man
Not you in particular, just the whole smoking debate thing.
If we don’t keep this quiet you’ll get the “oh I can tell if you’re a smoker, even if you just smoke one or two cigs a day because you stink! And you’re ugly! And you’re gonna DIE!!!” brigade in here in no time.
I believe there’s a few of 'em who still think i’m just a bold faced liar when I tell them people are shocked when they find out I smoke. After all, they’d be able to tell, hell, they’d be able to smell me coming from a mile away!
:rolleyes"
Those studies usually involve subjects that smoke a pack or two a day for a number of years, btw. Not really going to do much to stop a teenager from having a cig at the next party, really.
Oh, okay, yeah that makes sense lezlers. We could always start a hijack on fashion to head off the stampede!
And I agree with your point that old wrinkled people wouldn’t likely sway a teen. Now that I’ve rethought it, I don’t think much does.
A son of Robert the Bruce is going to use Truth ads as an excuse?
Shame on ye lad! If ye want to quit, then do. If not, don’t. Then lay ye doon and dee.
~McZoe~
A couple of years ago I was at one of their filming sites. The commercial involved hundreds of bodybags. The problem was that many people, including myself, stubbled upon their brilliance after they were done shooting but before they removed the bodybags. It caused quite a scene. Not that seeing bodybags in Washington, D.C. is that unusual mind you.
They have something worse at our school. Apparently they did a survey and found out that 20% of the students in the school system admitted to smoking marijuana (keep in mind that this includes middle and presumably elementary school kids, so the numbers for high schoolers are probably much higher). This is obviously not a very encouraging statistic. So, having this information in your hands, what would you do?
Well, the idiots at my school decided to broadcast it as a wonderful finding - they’ve put up obnoxious posters all over our school that say “Reality check: 80% of [school system] students don’t smoke marijuana”. :rolleyes: :smack:
Thanks, school administration. I thought the number of users was less than ten percent, but your ingenious idea has set me straight. From now on, I’ll keep in mind that one of every five kids I see in the hallway is using marijauna. I would never do drugs anyway, but if I were wavering about it, these dumbass ads wouldn’t help at all.
** Bruce** - I haven’t seen the ads (I’m in Canada) so I can’t comment on that.
I would like to say; however, that quitting smoking is the best Christmas gift you can give yourself.
Good for you, drink lots of water and have carrot sticks on hand. They’ll help.
Several times I’ve mentioned the book I used to give up smoking - Gillian Riley’s How To Stop Smoking And Stay Stopped For Good, because her approach is different to any other I’ve seen. She advocates carrying around cigarettes, continuing to go drinking, taking smoke breaks at work (but not smoking) and bringing on cravings to deny them. The psychology is really clever - it’s just a choice you’re making not something you are being denied.
In relation to your point in the OP she suggests that you don’t tell people that you are quitting because they will encourage you and your natural reaction to that will be “Bugger you, it’s not your place to approve.” and you may smoke again out of spite.
Interesting.
Good luck.
Well, I’ll just say “good luck to you” and leave it at that. If you want to do it, you shall succeed.
I’ve mentioned this on the boards before? And you remember? 
And alice_in_wonderland and don’t ask, thanks!
That’s lovely.
There’s been at least one commercial featuring a disfigured accident victim. It premiered last year, and showed a woman holding up a photo of herself before she was hit by a drunk driver and her car caught fire, then lowering it to reveal the way she looks now.