The first set is taken from 15 powerful anti smoking ads. 'Powerful' is not the word I would have used.
First up - Hitler. He's not as bad as smokers.
We are worse than terrorists too.
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| Caption: Terrorism-related deaths since 2001: 11,377. Tobacco-related deaths since 2001: 30,000,000. |
We have bad teeth
We are committing suicide
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| Caption: It's called suicide because it's your choice. |
We are addicted
And we kill babies
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| Caption: Smoking isn't just suicide, it's murder |
The next set is from 17 creative anti smoking ads. Again, not my choice of words.
This one from our very own Cancer research UK
What does this scene remind you of?
May as well shoot us and be done with it.
This is not about health.
17 Comments:
When hanging by a noose the head tilts forward not back. Fucking morons.
Bald headed John.
E.G., there's a TV series called Dexter where the HERO is a serial killer who likes to chop up his victims and dump them in the ocean. There are premeditated killings like this in every episode, while the hero's sister averages about a dozen F words per episode while bedding a different guy every season.
So what did people scream about? During the first three seasons the sister would occasionally sneak a cigarette behind the cop shop (she's a cop). THIS is what got high holy murder complaints!
So, guess what? The network was pressured into not only having the sister quit her nasty habit but also into weaving corrective antismoking messages into later seasons. E.G., the only characters allowed to smoke in the 5th (?) season were a raspy voiced sleazy motel owner who sounded like she'd die from cancer at any moment and a gang of pedophiles who lived under a bridge. Oh, and when Dexter finds a cigar ash at the scene of a crime his forensic specialist is *shocked* and exclaims, "This is 2010! NO ONE smokes anymore!"
This is the sort of behavior modification through the media that 's far more dangerous than the glitzy Madison Avenue ads their money buys.
Michael J. McFadden
Author of "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains"
You would think the creators of this stuff would have a little more backbone that to just bend to the will of the anti smoking lobby.
You couldn't even use the kiddies as justification as it sounds like Dexter is definately not for a young audience anyway.
*ahem* Any chance of a copy of your book?
That's a good point about Downton Abbey, which I never noticed.
If you read any Noel Coward plays (1920s), the characters are always smoking.
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One particular episode of 7th Heaven featured an evil twin smoking after his smoking father passed away from lung cancer, while one of the regular teen characters started smoking, influencing two toddlers to emulate him by pretending to smoke with crayons as another teen regular kept loudly proclaiming all smokers’ stupidity and another younger teen quit a newly acquired habit to prove that he wasn’t stupid. To top it all off, yet another smoking character was thrown into the mix to rudely blow smoke in a nonsmoker’s face at an outdoor café while the home she was house-sitting simultaneously burned down from one of her cigarettes… after which she simply lit up another smoke and stalked off with a comment about the place being insured and nonsmokers being uptight! (No, I am not making this up.)
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Amazing eh? :/
Best way to get Brains is straight through Amazon. By the time I pay for the copies, have them shipped to me, repackage individual copies, and then ship them off to someone else, Amazon works out cheaper! LOL! Plus considerably faster. :>
:)
Michael
I'm not sure where I read the Downton Abbey thing but it was definately on one of the blogs.
A lot of those dramas lack smoking but then again, most of them are by the BBC
Amazon it is then. Cheers :-)
And it's not a financial/NHS matter because smokers pay a fortune in cigarette tax.
Smokers and non smokers used to get along before the smoking ban
The main character was played by a large well known drinker called Johnny Vegas, the setting was a drug dealer's flat, and the show presented a very hard hitting satire on Northern English low life.
The show got round to looking at some very taboo behaviour.
The first couple of series were fine, but then a woman living in the flat gave birth. Suddenly a depiction of a constantly smokefree cannabis dealer's flat was broadcast to the nation! - this complete with a gangster character called "Psycho Paul" who was so magically smitten by the ban that he had to wave a cigarette around instead of actually lighting it.
Over on this side of the droplet we've got an insane Anti by the name of Stanton Glantz (sometimes called "Stanley Dunce") who declared that the few minutes of smoking shown in "Avatar" were the same as "dumping a punch of plutonium into the water supply" in terms of killing innocent children.
- MJM
And yes, Glanz is a raving loony
- MJM
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