Television Smoking Ads

I'm not sure wether this should go in the dbates section or not, but my guess is that since i'm sure theres a smoking thread in there it may as well go here. However feel free to move it, since i'm powerless to stop you :sweat: .

Anyway, i was wondering if people thought that the smoking ads on tv are getting a bit to graphic. I mean i'm all for encouraging people to stop smoking but to watch an ad of a doctor cuting a human brain in half just for the purpose of showing the people what happens inside the brain because of smoking is a bit much. We even have add's showing a doctor with a human wind pipe, and as he crushes one end we're given an eyefull of what builds up in there because of smoking.
Like i said i'd like to see people quit, but i think that this is going a bit far. I was interested on other peoples views are on these ad's?

 

i agree with you on how graphic adds have become.yet, im a smoker, and they dont make me want to quit either. they just...weird me out. and they only come on when im smoking, which is weird in its self. i dont know what theyre aiming to do for ppl who already smoke, but these ads are really for kids to show why not to smoke, and i think they may help~

 

They've only shown the fat-filled aorta you mentioned on TV here. I'm not to sure if it was an actual commercial, or something they showed on the news ABOUT the no-smoke campaign...
Anyway I'm not too sure if kids will actually listen. Their mostly influenced by the group they hang out with. If a few people are smoking in that group already, they easily pick it up so they can prove they're still part of the "cool people". That's what I've seen happening with the youth around me. (I don't smoke though)
And second, we all know how kids are tempted to do things they're not supposed to do. So if they say "you shouldn't smoke, it's bad for your health" they start to wonder what's so bad about it and yeah you know where I'm getting at...

Ofcourse this is only my personal theory and might not relate to reality, so don't flame me too much

 

hey superfly.......i visited your webcam........i am kinda scared.

and though your idea about kids doing things their friends do, i have to disagree with it.
i had a lot of friends who smoked pot, and drank, and that was the "bad thing", yet i had even more friends who shunned those things and just did what they wanted. nowadays, teenagers are more likely to dowhat they want then what their friends are doing~

 

Lol, when you visited my webcam then? Must have been a week or two ago
Anyway, ofcourse, the reaction of kids can differ from region to region. I didn't mean ALL kids do whatever their friends do, but overhere where I live, it happens to be the case. Though, one of my ex-classmates managed to quit smoking while practically everyone else from my class was smoking. They got to smoke during breaktime in school.
Ah well as long as my lungs are clean, I'm happy!

 

I support the ads. yes they're getting graphic, GOOD. Maybe that'll make teenagers stop beforestarting to smoke, because it IS hard to quit and that **** DOES happen to your body. It makes the people who haven't started smoking not wnat to.

My favortie is the one where they show the girlk smoking and her skin and crap rotting away. "if you could see what smokign does to you, would you still smoke?'

These ads are mostly aimed at those who wnat to start smoking, not those that ARE smoking. (Lucky~) As far as I'm concerned focusing on those athat are smoking is useless. They're already addicted. my mtoher stopped smoking for 9 years. Then she started again. Then quit for a few months and started again.

So I support the ads and say 'Let them be as graphic as they want!' they work. I've seen it. they ahve an impact on high school students with the gross factor and they don't even want to think about what if that stuff happens to them. So they don't do it.

 

I havent seen these, well maybe its because I got stuck in conservative middle america..
But I am tired of people going up to me on the street saying to stop smoking and showing me pictures of lungs and stuff.
My best friends smoke, my boyfriend smokes, I find it annoying sometimes, when its in an enclosed place, but seriously it's their choice and I dont really think they enjoyed being badgered on the street, but hey thats just me...

 

I've seen these adds and the one of the aorta makes me cringe every time, even though I'm not usually so squeamish o.o; . Anyways, I don't really see the harm in the adds, it's just that they don't seem to be working. I know lots of people who smoke and this hasn't made them stop, the problem is that with younger people they don't ever think it's going to happen to them. All you can do really is do your best to educate people about what they're doing to themselves, beyond that it's their own choice. It's just that people will do what they want and iognore the health risks in favour of the image thing.