The worst anti-smoking/drug ads

[Guest Steve J. Rogers]

No wonder we've been losing the drug war.

 

I think the best thing right up front is the fact that the truth ads are paid for by Phillip-Morris as part of the big settlement but thats another story

 

1) The Project S.C.U.M. ad is really bugging me. I mean if you were a homeless person you would consider the world you lived in scumy and wouldn't begrudge anyone saying so, let alone a marketing campaign aimed at that culture being ironically acyromned as such.

 

2) Buying drugs at a street corner is funding terrosits. Okay, I can see a money trail leading to say organized crime, and of course the South American cartel but someone using drugs isn't going to see that big picture. I mean people say its ludicrious when fans say "We pay your salaries" to athletes and entertainers even though a portion of the proceeds are part of their paychecks so why isn't it ludicrious in this situation

 

3) And this is my biggest beef with anti-smoking ads, any ads that talk about the amount of deaths smoking has caused and the fact that tobacco is a drug. Well tobacco is NOT the leading drug in terms of death relating to it and yet I have never, EVER seen any anti-it ads on TV. Of course that is alcohol. None other has destroyed more lives, familes, personal properties, or caused more deaths than good old alcohol, and last time I checked it was considered, and classified as a drug. Hell even they'll admit its a drug (which reminds me, unless you give me specifics about the person, how can they say something in 1980 that contradicts a memo in 1963 or whatever the hell the years are in the "I guess he missed the memo" ad about classifying nicotene as a drug) and do have "drink responsibly" ads (i.e. don't drink and drive, 21 means 21, ect) I mean that is what it boils down to, alcohol has more imeadiate impact on you than smoking does and its very hypocritical that the anti-drug lobbists don't go after "Big Alcohol" with the same vigor that they went after "Big Tobacco"

 

4) Under the influence ads. Again, I've heard more stories alcohol related when it comes to driving accidents than marijuana or any other drugs. I'm sure there are those who are "Drivin' that train, high on cocaine..." but you hear more DWI and DUI incidents involving drinking, hence the ads are having an opposite effect. Lending more creedance to teen's "indestructible" feeling about themselves as opposed to seeing the ads and saying "Yeah that happened to my friend's cousin" or whatever they see it and go "Yeah, like that happens every day"

 

Basically the sad part is the ads are made by the tobacco companies as a "See we are trying" token gesture where all they really are doing is making new consumers laugh at the tactics

 

Steve

[Guest Youth N Asia]

These commercials are the drizzling shits. I don't smoke or do any drugs, but that doesn't make them any less annoying.

 

By 2003 anyone who doesn't know that smoking is bad for you deserves to die! I don't need people this stupid alive and living on this planet.

 

And these anti-pot commercials are just too funny to be true...most potheads I know are laid back good people, and pretty nice usually.

 

But watch the commercials you see the stoned out girl and the creepy little boy molest her at a crowded party in front of dozens of people.

 

Then my new favorite is the one where the 14 year old girl smokes pot and it makes her pregnant...gee, I thought it was a commercial for how shitty parents should take responsibility and get involved in their kid's lives.

 

Booze is FAR more lethal then smoking or pot...why not outlaw that?

[Guest The Metal Maniac]

Booze is FAR more lethal then smoking or pot...why not outlaw that?

They tried, remember?

 

I've never actually seen the ads in question, that I can recall, but from what I've heard, they sound mightily stupid. I mean, you can make bad decisions on beer. The thing is, all they're really saying for the pot commercials is "It's as bad as the legal drugs" which makes me ask "So what?"

[Guest Crazy Dan]

Being that I used to smoke pot, I can safely assure you that when you are too stoned, you don't get off the coach, let alone get violent. It's like the creaters of thes ads confronted the makers of "Reefer Madness".

 

I think that all of these ads are so full of s*** that I can't find enough words to describe how I feel about it.

 

I mainly find myself laughing at these ads, and I don't think they were meant to be funny.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Booze is FAR more lethal then smoking or pot...why not outlaw that?

They tried, remember?

 

I've never actually seen the ads in question, that I can recall, but from what I've heard, they sound mightily stupid. I mean, you can make bad decisions on beer. The thing is, all they're really saying for the pot commercials is "It's as bad as the legal drugs" which makes me ask "So what?"

Yeah, I know all about that and whatnot. But it's a far more dangerous drug then the shit in question...I think these Truth brats are leading me to heavy drugs

[Guest red_file]

Have they stopped with the faux guerilla advertising? Like putting bodybags on beaches? Those really annoyed me for some reason.

[Guest El Satanico]

Yeah they stopped running those type of ads I believe.

 

But the "Stand Up Against Tobacco" ads have replaced them on the annoying ad level.

 

 

Something else that annoys me are the "tobacco killed this many" ads. We don't even know how they got that numbers. You know they inflated that number by including people who didn't die from lung cancer but were either smokers or were often around smokers.

[Guest Mad Dog]

I have to hear the "Take A Stand" ads on the radio all the time.

 

If you ask me all these ads do is encourage people to be bigots and discrimate against smokers.

 

 

Also as far as I'm concerned their numbers don't mean shit. Sounds to me like they take all the lung cancer and people that have had heart attacks and if they ever smoked for any length of time they get lumped into this category.

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

I remember once I calculated the statistic used in anti smoking ads. I've forgotten the results, but they're extremely contradictory. And we all know what bullshit second hand smoke is.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

I remember once I calculated the statistic used in anti smoking ads. I've forgotten the results, but they're extremely contradictory. And we all know what bullshit second hand smoke is.

As far as bullshit for giving people around it cancer? Sure. But the shit still stinks and is unpleasant to be around.

[Guest hardyz1]

What about the ads that say:

 

1) There is as much tar in one joint as there is in four cigarettes.

 

2) 1/3 of reckless drivers tested positive for marijuana.

 

They've got some big balls to just outright lie like that.

 

Oh, and secondhand smoke makes me cough and have trouble breathing. But it ain't giving me cancer.

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

No doubt about second hand smoke being irritating, even to me as a smoker. But they'll just come out and say for every five people (or whatever the number) a non smoker dies too. It's just a lie.

[Guest JangoFett4Hire]

Andy Kaufman died of lung cancer believed to have contracted from second hand smoke. It's possible, and it does happen.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

I think people can and could've died from second hand smoke...but they do gimmick the numbers to make them work for the ads though.

 

But for the record I can't stand to be around smokers, espeically in a car.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

True, it does happen, but the statistics for those that have been around smokers that died from lung cancer, and those that have not been around smokers and died from lung cancer, are so close that it's not even a REAL factor (something like 12 people die of lung cancer and were around smokers, and 10 die of lung cancer and weren't around smokers).

 

The only anti-pot commercials that hold ANY merit, to me at least, are the ones involving vehicular deaths. Marijuana DOES reduce your reaction time, and definitely makes you think less straight, so those are possible.

 

These little shits need to be tazered. And then let's tazer Phillip-Morris for financing this crap. Oh, and then let's tazer the fucks that made Phillip-Morris finance this crap. And don't forget a few tazer shots to the people that ruled against smoking being allowed to advertise in certain venues.