Another great feel-good government project that cost millions and does the exact opposite of what they intended.
If history has taught us nothing, it's that we should now expect calls to double the amount of funding for these commercials because they're not having the desired impact on teen smoking. |
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Here's the truth: If their numbers are right (suspect), then 1200 people die every day because of their DECISION to smoke, in spite of everything. Even the package says it'll kill you. Saying that tobacco kills is just as dumb as saying guns kill people. There was an ad campaign in the '70s that said "Guns don't kill people. People kill people." And another from the late '60s "When guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns." Maybe Truth.com should focus on PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY!!! |
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I was traveling down a lonesome highway the other night, and saw a bundle of tobacco sheaves jump out with a can of oil and smear it all over the road, forcing my vehicle to spin out. Fortunately I drove into a pile of hay. As I ran in terror from the threatening pile of tobacco, I saw it light a match and set the hay pile as well as my vehicle on fire.
I am thankful not to have become yet another statistic, but my insurance is doubling. This is a social problem that no one is addressing. |
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Excellent point. I've been wondering about something on the same lines:
if my gun just up and shoots somebody, why don't they just throw my gun in the pokey??? |
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.....companies put out anti-smoking ads.
"In 2002, a study commissioned by an anti-smoking foundation found tobacco manufacturer Philip Morris' youth anti-smoking campaign was making students more likely to smoke."
Those evil greedy tobacco giants, they found a way to advertise their product on TV again. |
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Some of the commercials were full of really bad logic. I mean, they'd do things like pretend to read a question written by a teen, and the response didn't answer the question at all. You know what? Bad reasoning can kill you INSTANTLY. Smoking doesn't. |
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as well as obesity, or eating too much sugar as a diebetic. Driving too fast kills people. Jumpinmg out of airplanes with faulty parachutes kills people. Job stress kills lots of people. Wacko doctors kill people. Stingrays kill people. Mountain climbing kills people................Isn't it great that we live in a country where we can choose what kills us? |
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Which was within the last 10 years... I have never smoke a cigarette in my life, but i will tell you these stupid commercials have never made me not want to smoke more than i already don't want to. It was a personal choice. When i was in junior high/high school, and saw some of these ridiculous commercials on TV, i would usually laugh at them. It's pretty obvious that most people don't respond to commercials and PSA's in general. Especially ones with the "activist leanings" like those "truth" commercials.
I point to the not smoking pot commercial with the crappy drawing with the yellow background, usually has a girl or guy being offered pot and the main character takes off and says no, usually leaving with the dog or alien and raising a flag with her/him and the dog/alien on it and saying pot is bad. The commercial is so ridiculous that it detracts from it's message. I watch it and laugh at how stupid it is. There is a difference between legal and illegal substances, but the commercials are made in the same stupid ways and really do nothing they are intended to do. I think the Ad Council could disappear, not do anymore PSA's, save people some money and no one would be worse off other than some high paid beaureucrats |
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