So in the latest ad for the braintrust at TRUTH, the TRUTH kids are out asking women if they would prefer baby a) a big ass baby, or b) a tiny baby. Seems some tobacco exec said that some women would actually prefer babies with low birth weights.
The TRUTH scoreboard shows about 150 voted for A, and 5 voted for B.
So the truth is that the tobacco exec was correct. Good for him!
I think that TRUTH ads are actually getting less annoying. I think they finally figured out that obnoxious teens are even more hateful than second-hand smoke.
Huh? Is something wrong in the OP? Because it doesn’t make sense to me.
The fact that 5 picked B means that technically yes, “some” women prefer babies with lower birth weight. The exec didn’t claim the majority would, only some, so he was correct.
Oh, okay, I get it now.
Well, I only wandered in here to see if I had gotten a dollar yet. I get one every time someone talks about how Truth ads make them want to smoke.
I actually find the new Truth ads more annoying, with that stupid friggin red curtain. I don’t remember the specifics of one of them, all I can remember is that their argument made no sense. Much along the lines of the one pointed out in the OP. It had something to do with in 2000 some big tabacco exec said he didn’t think nicotine was addictive, yet a report from 1964 or something by the tabacco company said it was. It was making a point off of one guy’s opinion, and as we’ve all seen, there are many instances where people hold true to their opinions even after hard facts to the contrary are presented to them.
Just because one exec. feels the information is wrong, doesn’t mean the entire industry claims it as fact. These ads are just as misrepresentational as those god damned KNOWLEDGE anti-drig ads, and just as annoying, yet less creative as their predicessors.
This thread makes me want to smoke. Does that count?
I had a journalism professor who told a similar story in class, about a secretary who smoked while she was pregnant because she wanted a smaller baby. His point was that you can’t control how people are going to use information once you make it available.
Just last night, I saw a TRUTH ad that was new for me.
It featured this guy graffitti-ing up a wall, and reading from a cue card, saying that some tobacco person or other still wasn’t sure that smoking caused disease. (Which is odd, because Philip Morris has come out and admitted that cigarette smoking is carcinogenic.) He then showed us that he’d been spray-painting a picture of his dad, whom he said died “from smoking”.
So, let’s see … this ad supports the spray-painting of graffitti on public buildings, the notion that one or two lingering tobacco execs who still “aren’t sure” are somehow a major problem, and the idea that if somebody who smokes dies he “obviously” died from smoking. Yeah, sure sounds like TRUTH to me…
If was passing something out my genitals, I’d want it as small as possible too.
All kidding aside, what problems are associated with low birth weight?
At one of my old jobs I had a co-worker who chain smoked all through her pregnancy. It pissed me off to no end, but she was more senior in the company, so I kept my mouth shut.
The baby was born at 8 lbs. 13 oz. Imagine how HUGE it would have been if she had quit!!!
Don’t forget it also supports people not being responsible for their choices, and helpless before forty years of warnings to stop something. It also supports annoy Tars Tarkas until he picks up a gun and goes on a rampage through the TRUTH offices yelling “I got yer truth here!”
I hadn’t noticed that 5 women preferred the smaller baby.
What I was thinking was, I can see somebody joking around and saying “Some women would prefer smaller babies!” because my mom and I were just joking about it the other day.
Anyway, I can see those TRUTH people taking that out of context and making a big deal about it.
Their ads are stupid, and I do in fact have the urge to light up directly after seeing one.
My husband used to change the chanel as soon as one of their commercials came on. Now we watch them and laugh.
THEY ARE STUPID!!!
The one that gets me is that guy reading from the paper. He says they targeted gays and homeless people.
H’uh? Why gays and homeless people? And what about gay homeless people?
Low birth weight babies are at a much greater risk of death, disease, and disability. This can include cerebral palsy, learning disabilities, visual problems and respiratory problems that may remain with low birth weight children the rest of their lives.
In 1990, over 15% of the deaths occurring in the 1st month of life were infants who were born too soon or too small.
There’s a survey I’d like to see them do!
Poor gay homeless people. They can’t even afford a closet to come out from.
Ugh.
Those truth ads bother me. Thier just showcasing teens looking like complete asses. Thankfully I haven’t seen too many of them recently.
You know, I bet the first product ad that shows hip, streetwise, ultrasmooth teens getting the crap beat out of them by plain-looking, chunky thirtysomethings will make over a billion dollars.
Then again, maybe I’m just getting old.
I hate that period of silence at the end of these ads… like what the beautiful teen just said is so damn clever that I need extra time to comprehend it.