Anti-smoking ads (3249 hits)
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Submitted by G-prime (View user info) at 2005-02-22 20:14:28 EST
Lately I've been seeing more and more anti-smoking ads. Usually I'm more or less alright with that. I don't smoke (tobacco), but I respect people's right smoke if they want. Not necessarily everywhere, but mostly it's ok. There used to be these commercials that were for thetruth.com and I thought those ads were effective and logical. They gave you solid facts, do with them what you will. For example, they would say "cigarettes contain blah blah amount of arsenic and blah blah amount of rat poison." They had credible sources, and their ads were simply informative.
Now there are these new ads, run by a Canadian anti-smoking group. These ads just piss me off. The first one I saw had a guy walking around in a forest wearing antlers on his head and a camo jacket. A shot rings out in the distance and he flinches. He says "This may look pretty stupid, but only 3 people die every year in Ontario in hunting accidents. Blah blah people die from smoking. You tell me what's really stupid." I find this commercial utterly ridiculous. Compare the number of people who smoke to the number of people who walk around in the woods in hunting season wearing antlers. If those numbers were equal, then there would be more hunting accidents than smoking-related deaths!
Another commercial they have is where a guy is sitting in a bathtub with a toaster on the ledge. He says "This may look stupid, but your chances of dying from a toaster/bathtub death are *something like* 1 in 320000 (or some other huge number). If you're a smoker, your chances of dying are 1 in 2. You tell me what's really stupid." First of all, your chances of dying are 1 in 1 no matter what you do, so that statement doesn't even make sense. If they meant that your chances of dying from (insert smoke-related disease here) are 1 in 2, then they should say so, otherwise, they just sound like retards. And how many people sit in the tub with toasters on the ledge? Once again, compare that number to the number of smokers and then try to tell me that sitting in a bathtub with a toaster makes more sense.
A third ad features a dog shitting in a park. A girl runs up and jumps on the pile of shit and rolls around in it. She smears it all over herself, gets up and says "It may seem pretty stupid to actually WANT to smell like crap, but blah blah kids this year decided to try smoking. You tell me what's really stupid." How many kids liked it and decided to keep smoking? Give me those stats, damn it! And besides, "smelling like crap" is just an expression. I must say, though, this ad was the one that pissed me off the least.
The latest one shows a guy standing on the edge of a building, looking like he's about to jump. There is a crowd around the bottom, and police are talking to him over the bullhorn. He looks at the camera and says "Stats show that kids are 50% more likely to smoke if they see it in the movies. So, if everything we see in the movies is true, then I could jump off this building and survive, right?" The screen fades to black showing www.stupid.ca in white letters. I say that kids stupid enough to immitate what they see in movies shouldn't be alive anyway. That's what natural selection is for. Hurry up and jump already, bitch.
I hate these ads. I have no problem with smokers, and I hate being grouped as a "non-smoker" because those people are some of the stupidest people I know. They're almost as bad as pro-lifers, but that's another rant... If I'm standing outside and somebody wants to smoke, let them! I'll just stand upwind from them. If I have friends over and they want to smoke, they can either stand outside on the porch, or if it's too cold or raining I'll just open a window so they can blow the smoke outside. Not once have I ever told somebody who was smoking that it's bad for them and they should quit. If an adult makes a conscious decision to smoke, that's ok with me, it's none of my business. They've seen the ads, they know the risks. It's not my place to tell them what to do. Banning smoking in all public places seems completely retarded to me. Especially in bars. I don't see the logic in not having a designated smoking area that is contained and has proper ventilation. It just doesn't make sense. Smokers have rights too!
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Submitted by Beer_bong (user info) at 2005-12-27 13:16:57 EST (#)
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Any pro-smoking post gets a +2 from me. I don't even have to read it.
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2005-06-18 00:40:51 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Fleadh (user info) at 2005-06-17 12:04:46 (#)
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Chances are the vast majority of americans who saw that map didnt even flinch.
Submitted by herbman (user info) at 2005-05-19 06:51:22 EDT (#)
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Revolutionman, I can see you rate the post, not the poster or the subject.
Submitted by Revolutionman (user info) at 2005-05-12 01:30:52 EDT (#)
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Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2005-02-23 03:56:57 (#)
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I have smoked a pack a day for ten years. Full flavored Kool filtered Kings. Menthol Yumminess!
Fuck all the anti-cigarette ads. We know we smoke - we could quit if we wanted to. We are not
inbred children. We don't want to stop. We like to piss off non smokers. Fuck them. They make it seem as if we are unable to create the idea of quitting. WE WANT TO SMOKE! ! ! ! ! And we like to litter our filthy butts all over the place, too. Fuck Non-smokers and their pure lungs.
you blow smoke near me and ill break your fingers.
I agree that smoking slowly removes the idiots, but its to slow. FASTER, then need to put more tar in and shit
Submitted by MrSparkle847 (user info) at 2005-05-08 15:48:36 EDT (#)
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Now there are these new ads, run by a Canadian anti-smoking group. These ads just piss me off. The first one I saw had a guy walking around in a forest wearing antlers on his head and a camo jacket. A shot rings out in the distance and he flinches. He says "This may look pretty stupid, but only 3 people die every year in Ontario in hunting accidents. Blah blah people die from smoking. You tell me what's really stupid." I find this commercial utterly ridiculous.
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For Christ's sake, the ads are made by fucking CANADIANS. Not that I disagree with you - they are retarded ideas for commercials - but nowadays, this is the kind of thing you just expect.
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2005-05-07 20:00:03 EDT (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/65607
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2005-04-14 22:40:57 EDT (#)
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If you rent from someone who has a non-smoking rule, you need to move somewhere that allows smoking. Same with restaurants that decide to go non-smoking. If you don't like it, you can choose to go somewhere else.
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Agreed, except too often it isn't that restaurants choose to go smoke-free, it's that the government forces them to do it. They have no choice, and there IS no other place to go. Where I live there are laws that prohibit smoking within 15 feet of any public door and in any enclosed public area. It's getting a little bit excessive. There are people trying to ban smoking entirely, and those people are idiots. They think that because they choose not to engage in a certain activity, nobody should. They choose to ignore the rights somebody has to smoke. They want to keep people from smoking in their own fucking homes, for god's sake!
Submitted by HadToBeDone (user info) at 2005-03-07 15:20:50 EST (#)
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Submitted by Kent_Weirdo (user info) at 2005-02-23 04:21:23 (#)
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Thanks for being a guy who doesn't smoke that defends the rights of those who do.
And the whole outlawing-smoking-in-public-places bit is just nonsense. What if you live in an apartment where the landlord prohibits smoking? What will we do THEN?
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Um...move? It isn't your right to smoke in someone else's building. No one smokes in my home. Not because I am a non-smoking nazi, but because I don't smoke. If you rent from someone who has a non-smoking rule, you need to move somewhere that allows smoking. Same with restaurants that decide to go non-smoking. If you don't like it, you can choose to go somewhere else.
I'm like most non-smokers. We think the smoking-related lawsuits are officially out of control, now that health warnings have been on the packs for almost 3 years. We don't care if you smoke. We don't care if you do it in public. We would just like to be able to walk without a face full of it. Be polite. Move a few feet away from doors so I can sneak through. Don't blow a mouthful of smoke in my face. And if you are around me, turn your face 3 inches to the other side when you blow your smoke out. I'm not going to get all in your shit if the wind grabs it, so don't get pissed at me if I polite ask you to take 2 steps away so I can walk while I'm at work.
It's really not that hard.
Submitted by ardubs (user info) at 2005-03-07 14:42:41 EST (#)
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"We hate the fact that our citizens smoke, but instead of banning it outright, we'll just keep antagonizing the smokers and raking in the cash." --gov't
Submitted by herbman (user info) at 2005-03-07 14:28:21 EST (#)
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you're a pothead aren't you
(that's a good thing)
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2005-02-28 20:10:27 EST (#)
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Thank you for standing up for us smokers.
I am respectful about it.
I try not to smoke around kids or stand upwind of non-smokers.
BUT.....
It is my right to smoke.
Here in the UK they tax our smokes to an extent that is ridiculous. (Almost £5/$10 US per pack, sorry I don't know canadian).
If everyone stopped smoking the government would be totally fucked.
Thanks again.
-Dave
Submitted by funk_boy (user info) at 2005-02-26 06:58:52 EST (#)
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excellent ranting
Submitted by negativesid (user info) at 2005-02-26 06:39:43 EST (#)
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I fucking hate these ads too man. They're all over the place. If people want to smoke let them do it.
Submitted by Faithless_Whisper (user info) at 2005-02-23 14:41:23 EST (#)
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Hot picture.
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2005-02-23 14:27:08 EST (#)
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Yeah I was going to put a quote about pro-lifers from Bill Hicks (the one where he says "If they're pro-life, what does that make me? Pro-death? Anti-life? If they REALLY want to be pro-life, they should lock arms and close a cemetery.") but I couldn't find the exact quote. I don't think I've ever heard the one about cigarettes, although I always hear people talking about it.
Submitted by EAZEDZT (user info) at 2005-02-23 13:07:38 EST (#)
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Good Rant
Submitted by downerSTAIN (user info) at 2005-02-23 09:38:26 EST (#)
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I hate these ads. I have no problem with smokers, and I hate being grouped as a "non-smoker" because those people are some of the stupidest people I know. They're almost as bad as pro-lifers
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That line is almost straight out of a Bill Hicks routine. But I'll give you the benefit of doubt. Plus, Bill Hicks is awesome and most of the people that know of him are. Too bad he's dead.
I wrote a rant about anti-smoking ads, but it's nowhere near as good as this.
Submitted by Kent_Weirdo (user info) at 2005-02-23 04:21:23 EST (#)
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Thanks for being a guy who doesn't smoke that defends the rights of those who do.
And the whole outlawing-smoking-in-public-places bit is just nonsense. What if you live in an apartment where the landlord prohibits smoking? What will we do THEN?
Submitted by Ivy (user info) at 2005-02-23 04:20:43 EST (#)
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+2 For being an open minded non-smoker, that's cool.
Go Du Maurier Lights, yeah!
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2005-02-23 03:56:57 EST (#)
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I have smoked a pack a day for ten years. Full flavored Kool filtered Kings. Menthol Yumminess!
Fuck all the anti-cigarette ads. We know we smoke - we could quit if we wanted to. We are not
inbred children. We don't want to stop. We like to piss off non smokers. Fuck them. They make it seem as if we are unable to create the idea of quitting. WE WANT TO SMOKE! ! ! ! ! And we like to litter our filthy butts all over the place, too. Fuck Non-smokers and their pure lungs.
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-02-23 00:54:07 EST (#)
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Submitted by darko (user info) at 2005-02-22 23:28:02 (#)
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87% of all statistics are made up
Noooo, it's 93% of statistics are made up...
Zinger!
Submitted by DavyJones (user info) at 2005-02-23 00:40:45 EST (#)
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If people want to smoke, I don't care. I do care when it effects me.
When I can't walk building to building on campus without a near asthma attack, it makes me unhappy. When I see my beautiful campus littered with but(t?)s everywhere, knowing full well each building has a recepticle just for them, I get out right pissed.
Smoke if you want, but it's not an excuse to give people with asthma/allergies a hard time breathing in the middle of a public place, or to deface the campus we pay to upkeep.
Also, I've read circumstances of companies getting sued because they don't hire workers who smoke. They had very strong evidence that smoking employees miss like 43% more work days then their counterparts. If someone is going to miss 43% more time than someone else, I'm not hiring them. This is simply good business, and smokers can fuck off.
Even 0.
Submitted by Thored (user info) at 2005-02-23 00:32:37 EST (#)
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Go to www.stupid.ca
Their sources all quote other sources, which don't quote any sources at all.
It seems almost sad.
Submitted by Ranx05 (user info) at 2005-02-23 00:26:03 EST (#)
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You can use statistics to prove anything. 75% of all people know that.
Submitted by Benny (user info) at 2005-02-23 00:19:56 EST (#)
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It's intriguing that if you start smoking you could become immortal. One in two chance isn't bad at all.
Submitted by foodman (user info) at 2005-02-22 23:33:25 EST (#)
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Well, I'm a non-smoker stuck on a military base overseas...If you had to live here, you'd have a totally different view of smoking. About 95% of the people here smoke (I'm not exaggerating) and they think it's their right to smoke wherever the hell they want, even if it bothers the people around them...According to SOP, it's not...But the people who enforce the rules all smoke, too.
Anyway, though I hate the Nazi a-holes, you had a sound analysis.
+2 DIE!
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2005-02-22 23:28:02 EST (#)
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87% of all statistics are made up
Submitted by Otters (user info) at 2005-02-22 23:16:28 EST (#)
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Yea, that 1 in 2 statistic is made up for sure. Lots of statistics are so inaccurate anyway. Nice article!
Submitted by Shizae (user info) at 2005-02-22 22:37:02 EST (#)
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Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2005-02-22 22:21:12 (#)
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Yup yup.
sad thing, I'm a non-smoker, who grew up in a family where eventually EVERY smoked.
And I'll probably be the one to get lung cancer and die.
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Same here. Go lung cancer, whoo!
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2005-02-22 22:21:12 EST (#)
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Yup yup.
sad thing, I'm a non-smoker, who grew up in a family where eventually EVERY smoked.
And I'll probably be the one to get lung cancer and die.
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-02-22 20:54:17 EST (#)
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Damn fine article. I enjoyed it immensely, thanks!
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2005-02-22 20:53:29 EST (#)
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+2 because we had to give reports on monday in my biology class. Well this one kid gave a report on how some scientists in Isreal did some tests on cigarattes and found that they were not harmful to a certain part of the body. Not that they were helpful, just that they had no effect. Then he said he thought it was a bad article because it made smoking seem ok. I guess he wanted them to make up statistics to say smoking was evil and would kill fathers and rape their mothers.
Submitted by Jarvis (user info) at 2005-02-22 20:46:11 EST (#)
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You're more likely to die because of all the emissions your giant SUV spews out. You're more likely to die because the obesity rate in America is insane. You're more likely to die because your TV and computer screens shoot out gamma rays. You're more likely to die because YOU ARE MORTAL.
Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2005-02-22 20:36:47 EST (#)
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"your chances of dying are 1 in 1 no matter what you do"
hahaha, so true
Plus fucking two
Submitted by Ed_0150 (user info) at 2005-02-22 20:27:46 EST (#)
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They need a +100 button.
Submitted by FelizJbirth (user info) at 2005-02-22 20:26:00 EST (#)
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Hey Ebola, is eating babies next?
Submitted by EbolaMay (user info) at 2005-02-22 20:24:40 EST (#)
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Well done, but I hate it that I love anal sex with cucumbers.
Submitted by EbolaMay (user info) at 2005-02-22 20:24:15 EST (#)
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Well done, but I hate it that I sniff gasoline.
Submitted by FelizJbirth (user info) at 2005-02-22 20:24:06 EST (#)
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I was halfway through a cigarette when I read your post... I'm from Canada and I've seen the ads you mentioned. Not to mention the "two idiots" ads they seem to think will work.
WE KNOW THEY'RE BAD FOR US. WE KNOW THEY'RE ADDICTIVE. That's how YOU got us hooked, remember? I love the fact that the government makes shitloads of money off taxing cigaretes which they apparently put into anti-smoking ads. The only way they're going to greatly cut down on what is, arguably, the most lethal and commonly used drug known to mankind: make it illegal. I don't think I could be bothered trying to find a cigarette dealer all the time, it might give me incentive to quit. That's why I don't smoke crack. Honest.
Submitted by EbolaMay (user info) at 2005-02-22 20:23:53 EST (#)
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Well done, but I hate it that I inject heroin.
Submitted by EbolaMay (user info) at 2005-02-22 20:23:34 EST (#)
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Well done, but I hate it that I drink.
Submitted by EbolaMay (user info) at 2005-02-22 20:23:16 EST (#)
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Well done, but I hate it that I smoke.
Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2005-02-22 20:22:22 EST (#)
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I'm gonna take up smoking out of spite.
Submitted by NSFW (user info) at 2005-02-22 20:20:23 EST (#)
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plus fucking two
Submitted by Unabonger (user info) at 2005-02-22 20:17:10 EST (#)
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pick up smoking! they're great and great for you!
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