BF2S Forums Smoking Ad scares Children

good, then it worked.

many people use the "it's my body i can do what i want" line

well what about your kids? how would they feel if you dropped dead 20 years early?

or any other family/friends for that matter.

Last edited by krazed (2009-04-01 00:22:38)

@ Drunkface - We have those same ones, just rebranded for the NYS Smokers's Quitline. Indeed, extremely graphic...but it gets the message out.

Reminds me why I'll never smoke cigarettes. Weed's a different story though.

It's political correctness gone mad!

Poseidon wrote:

@ Drunkface - We have those same ones, just rebranded for the NYS Smokers's Quitline. Indeed, extremely graphic...but it gets the message out.

Reminds me why I'll never smoke cigarettes. Weed's a different story though.

Seriously, one Weed cigarette thing is equal to like one pack of tobacco cigarettes.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,326309,00.html
http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43499

The DOE really hit the ball perfectly when it started releasing those "speed kills" ads. The ads show the true brutality, sorrow and often worse: noises of a car crash. We need more ads of these. Why exactly is it bad that a smoking ad is scaring children? It's meant to: because the sooner you drill a message into them the better. That smoking reduces life expectancy and gives you a higher chance of getting cancer, and so on so forth. Advertising authorities are a joke here. They allow the DOE ads and those somewhat-sexy "wear a condom" ads yet don't allow this? 51 complaints..lol. Top Gear gets more complaints than that in one episode and yet it's still showing.

The ASA needs to get their act together and work what is in the best interest of the populus, and not in the best interest of 51 people. Those 51 people are idiots. I'd like to think that there are at least some less-idiotic people in the entire population.

Shit that made the massive hairs on my back and the rest of my sexy body stand up......

What really pisses me off is when your walking down a street and half the people are smoking.

That is enough for me to want people to quit smoking.

cpt.fass1 wrote:

Fuck these non smoking bastards.. Seriously it's your body and you can do what you want with it..

Stop smoking ads don't work, it's proven they actually have a reverse effect on people.. You see something that you might not even know about or want to try in a commercial, then walk around and see a ton of people doing it, your brain registers "wow that must be awesome if people know what's going to happen to they're body and they're still doing it". So then the Youngins start smoking..

The pot shit is bull as well. Also you don't smoke One Weed cigarette in a sitting it take a while..

Can you give me a source to tell me where it is "proven they have a reverse effect on people" please.

JahManRed wrote:

The Northern Ireland Car safety ads are without a doubt the most scary and brutal out there. They are showing them in oz now too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ_IEnf_G3Q
That's one of the milder ones. Can't find anymore on youtube. Their is a slow motion one of a boy being flung around the inside of the car smashing his head of his friends heads, killing them accompanied by a bone crunching noise that turns my stomach.
One of the actresses who gets nutted and killed is a good friend of mine.

Christ on a blue bike, I agree they are the most brutal, specially if that's a mild one, get the point across though. I refuse to speed anyway, much to the annoyance of the morons who get stuck behind me I love how pissy they get because they can't break the law, keeps me entertained on long journeys.

And vaguely on topic, these adverts are supposed to scare people, if your child is frightened by the advert quit fucking smoking, do youself a favour and stop poisoning your child at the same time.

Macbeth wrote:

All those anti smoking ads do is just jerk off the anti smoking crowd. All smokers are still going to smoke and not give a shit about that or what happens later. I would instead prefer the money used for those ads go to studying stem cells or some other possible cancer cure.

Prevention > cure.

As for the ads not working... I have family that say otherwise.

cpt.fass1 wrote:

kylef wrote:

cpt.fass1 wrote:

Fuck these non smoking bastards.. Seriously it's your body and you can do what you want with it..

Stop smoking ads don't work, it's proven they actually have a reverse effect on people.. You see something that you might not even know about or want to try in a commercial, then walk around and see a ton of people doing it, your brain registers "wow that must be awesome if people know what's going to happen to they're body and they're still doing it". So then the Youngins start smoking..

The pot shit is bull as well. Also you don't smoke One Weed cigarette in a sitting it take a while..

Can you give me a source to tell me where it is "proven they have a reverse effect on people" please.

http://www.jointogether.org/news/resear … sored.html

http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/ … backfiring

Just two but there are tons of studies..

Wow... great sources.

advertising sponsored by tobacco companies to dissuade young people from smoking may actually have the reverse effect

Any parent knows that telling a teen what to do can cause them to do just the opposite, especially if all you tell them is that they're too young

These ads were specifically designed to use reverse psychology.

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cpt.fass1 wrote:

DrunkFace wrote:

cpt.fass1 wrote:

http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2006/industry-sponsored.html

http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/ … backfiring

Just two but there are tons of studies..

Wow... great sources.

advertising sponsored by tobacco companies to dissuade young people from smoking may actually have the reverse effect

Any parent knows that telling a teen what to do can cause them to do just the opposite, especially if all you tell them is that they're too young

These ads were specifically designed to use reverse psychology.

You asked for sources, it's all over the place. Also who do you think funds all the stop smoking ads?

The government.

Australian-led study shows cigarette prices and anti-smoking ads most effective in reducing smoking

The study found we would achieve between 0.3 and 0.6 percentage point acceleration in the decline in smoking rates by either exposing the population to televised anti-smoking ads an average of between 4 and 8 times per month or by increasing the price of a pack of cigarettes by between 0.03 to 0.06% of gross average weekly earnings.

Research shows anti-smoking commercials contribute to successful quit attempts

Almost half of those smokers who had successfully quit smoking in the five years preceding the 2005 survey believed that anti-smoking television commercials had contributed to their quit attempt (46%).

More than double the proportion of successful quitters cited anti-smoking television commercials as a contributor to their quit attempt, compared with other quitting aids or services such as Nicotine Replacement Therapies and advice from health professionals.

And why if they don't work are tobacco companies trying to counter them.
Tobacco industry efforts to derail effective anti-smoking campaigns

Research has found ads that reveal the deceptive practices of the tobacco industry are the most effective media campaigns that reduce smoking rates

State health departments face an uphill battle when dealing with the political clout of the industry with its lobbying, campaign contributions and specials events, Ibrahim said.

One tactic also involves the industry producing its own ineffective campaigns in order to portray state programs as duplicative and a waste of public dollars. Campaigns designed by the tobacco companies patronize youth in their early teen years, with messages like “Think, Don’t smoke”

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