The point of this post is because I can't stand the stupidity of fear mongering and who tries to do it and on such a regular basis. Here's a few commercials and I want to know if you find this as strange/stupid as I do.




Okay, commercial one, touches on basically every type of stereotype there is in cigarette advertising and spins it all into old guy on a respirator and pretty much decaying while he's still alive.

Good commercial. It makes sense, in almost everybody, this is what is going to happen if you're a heavy smoker your entire life. I find this commercial to be a little bit preachy but effective enough to get the point across.



Swimming

This video, also good. It's a first hand account of a guy who used to love to swim but can't now. What's the problem with this one? Nothing. He's got what was coming to him. It's called consequence, I think this is also a good ad.




Now here's the kicker, this one sucks. Why you ask? Because it has NOTHING to do with smoking. But you say, well he's going to miss out on his daughter's wedding day. I say, no. The main concept of this is to say, if you smoke, your daughter will never get married. If I'm wrong, then why go through the trouble of showing the close up of the girl watching the scene? Why go through all the trouble of sleep and make up depriving the girl for a commercial so she (almost) looks in as bad a shape as her smoker of a father?

I'm sorry, but I don't get it. It's one thing for them to advertise adverse effects to smoking, that are common and well known. Little did anyone know, smoking will turn your daughters into un-marryable and dirty people.

This is just another case of New York throwing away tax dollars on a shitty advertising campaign. You've made smoking illegal inside any building, 25 feet in front of any building, you've levied a shitload of extra taxes on cigarettes over the last 5 years, and you still have to advertise that people should quit? Ugh. This. Is. Stupid. I. Hate. The. New. York. State. Government.