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Disgusting Smoking Ads

lagger

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They are everywhere. Gruesome looking tumours on TV, Gross sounds and scare crap on radio, Buses, trams, trains, posters in malls, shops, bus stops.

I don't want to see them and neither do smokers.

What's wrong with getting some people together to make an ad that isn't a scare tactic for once as people just disbelieve them now since reefer madness and prohibition bullshit.

What i mean are a series of ads from the government that show quality of life without smoking. Not disgusting shit that people change their view from or change the channel. Quality of life or whatever you want to call it, I don't know much about advertising or film making but people that do should get together and make a series of ads that leave an impression. A short ad, that doesn't say "QUIT QUIT LOSER YOUR DEAD U HAVE NO LUNG LEFT AND YOUR PEEPPEE WONT WORK!!!" as a lot of smokers will think oh well its been 20 years i may as well keep smoking if i have already caused damage from that first puff out the back of the dunnys at 11.

I dont exactly have answers or ideas but anyone doing Bach of Arts or something like that should work with some people in marketing at a university and write and direct a nice series of ads that shows, getting older shouldnt be about taking 50 pills or coughing up crap and generally being very unhealthy.

of course. i know everyone is different. i happen to know a 90 year old that sings professionally, is in great shape, with it mentally most of the time, fought in WW2 and still goes on holidays often. and he smoked from 10 to 50.
so i guess thats why, if i was a smoker, seeing a 40 year old cough blood into a tissue on tv would not make me stop smoking it would only make me depressed.
 
Agree.

I've just quit again, using Champix for the second time, and those ads are really just one of the very many constant reminders for those who've quit recently to go and light up.

Shock tactics may work for a certain demographic but they certainly didn't deter me from smoking. I think they should try a different approach with the ads, or just keep increasing the taxes. It makes it hard for the majority of people to smoke when it costs more than a dollar for each cigarette.
 
If the goverment were really concerned about the health of people who are addicted to ciggarettes they would just ban them, but then again think of all them beautiful tax dollars society would lose :(
 
^ don't know about that man. Although the government is no doubt addicted to the tax revenue, they know full well that the 2-3 million smokers aren't justr going to give up coz it is illegal, and that organised crime would quickly fill the void.
 
I was at the doctors today and I saw a really good ad- it was "Every cigarette you don't smoke is doing you good" and had arrows pointing to parts of the body and how they would improve over time. It started at 8 hours and went up to a year I think. Really, really good!
 
This is an excellent point. I think shock tactics have been so overdone people have the tendency to tune out....a series of ads pointing out the benefits of not smoking, as opposed to the detriment of smoking would be a really good idea.
 
I was at the doctors today and I saw a really good ad- it was "Every cigarette you don't smoke is doing you good" and had arrows pointing to parts of the body and how they would improve over time. It started at 8 hours and went up to a year I think. Really, really good!

Really? Thats a great view I wish they did this more.

Was it a private ad for a quitting company or was it government?

Cheers
 
I have was a cigerette smoker for 14 years and quit over one year ago and I'm still free of the ciggies today.

I have to say the dirty scare tactic ads wern't what made me stop but they definitley stopped me lighting up a few times when I wanted too...

So maybe there is some use to them cause I know they 100% stopped me lighting up on more than a few occasions...
 
The only thing that will stop me smoking is when the government decides they don't care about money and make tobacco illegal. Even then I will still smoke at home. ;)
 
^ I know... just imagining what it would be like if they took their views on other drugs and applied them to the legal ones.

The government loves money, they should start legalizing some other substances and begin reaping in the dough. The rest of the world can whine about it, but while we provide them with coal and uranium and whatever else we have, they may even put up with it. :D
 
It really pisses me off that the people within the government who make laws regarding Medical and Drug issues have little medical/chemical education themselves

Shulgin talks about a point similar to that in the end of Book One of TiHKAL. I finally got around to finishing that part off today, his arguments and discussion of drug laws was very informative reading and given me some ammunition for the next discussion I have with someone regarding prohibition. :)
 
^ Those are both good starts to progressive drug policy... and recently I read of the President of Columbia I think saying that if legalizing drugs reduces the violence and corruption in his country, he would be up for it if other countries were to allow it.

PiHKAL and TiHKAL are fantastic, I got them both for Christmas and was only afterwards I found out that PiHKAL at least is a banned book here. Which Shulgin also discusses in TiHKAL.
 
^ Those are both good starts to progressive drug policy... and recently I read of the President of Columbia I think saying that if legalizing drugs reduces the violence and corruption in his country, he would be up for it if other countries were to allow it.

PiHKAL and TiHKAL are fantastic, I got them both for Christmas and was only afterwards I found out that PiHKAL at least is a banned book here. Which Shulgin also discusses in TiHKAL.

I had PIHKAL TIHKAL and Total Synthesis II opened by customs for some reason (they never open amazon books!) and it was let through with a note saing nothing banned was found and nothing was taken :)
 
I was when I received them, but it was Sydney Customs opening it, hardly anything goes straight to qld mail centre. it only has on duty one customs sorter and one quarentine at the small ass mail centre at riverside and they mainly scan or sniff small packets and envelopes.
im guessing its an offense to possess drug making guides up there?
 
^ Probably, but I'm not sure and can't be bothered looking it up right now.

So it's only QLD that bans the book, Psilo? Did it used to be all of Australia, because that's what Shulgin says in TiHKAL... he also says though that the censorship is probably very inefficient and that copies he sent to acquaintances here got through fine.
 
Yeah apparently at the 2C-B case mentioned in TIHKAL he was giving books to the lawyers and court staff either there or sending them through.
 
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