Boku AKA Da Green Guy
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Post by Boku AKA Da Green Guy on May 27, 2008 7:19:41 GMT -5
I thought that new marijuana commercial was funny where the kid is smoking pot in a chair at his parents house and he just grows older there. Why don't they show him turning into Eminem or Curt Kobain or some famous successful drug user? FOOL! KYLE GASS IS A HUGE STAR! I WANNA DO POT TOO, IF I CAN BE RAGE KAGE! ^.^
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Post by MysteryPartner on May 27, 2008 7:30:38 GMT -5
I thought that new marijuana commercial was funny where the kid is smoking pot in a chair at his parents house and he just grows older there. Why don't they show him turning into Eminem or Curt Kobain or some famous successful drug user? FOOL! KYLE GASS IS A HUGE STAR! I WANNA DO POT TOO, IF I CAN BE RAGE KAGE! ^.^ YES! Exactly! I thought that dude in the pot commercial looked familiar.
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Mac
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Post by Mac on May 27, 2008 7:45:33 GMT -5
Its more great marketing from the tabacco companies. Wasnt this whole TRUTH campaign some class action lawsuit compromise or something?
The commercials are anti-smoking, almost always excessivly annoying and the shows they buy ad time on they buy LOTS of ad time, so eventually you get yourself sick and tired of the same annoying commercial being thrown at you so much that you learn to despise it.
Judging by a lot of responses here people seemed more willing to smoke after watching these commercials instead of quitting. A multi billion dollar mega corporation would be foolish to try to sway people away from buying their product.
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Annette
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Post by Annette on May 27, 2008 7:53:42 GMT -5
I liked the message behind the commercial but they constantly lose me with the singing, dancing and cartoon animals.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on May 27, 2008 7:55:40 GMT -5
I hate those lame commercials, so I'm going to go smoke, thereby hurting myself to get back at them.
Someone please explain this line of thinking.
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Post by xombiehiphop on May 27, 2008 8:24:14 GMT -5
I don't smoke and I could care less if anyone else does. I'm sure if your a smoker you know you could get Emphysema and die a slow, painful death. Good for you. Hope it works out. Just don't smoke around me because I can't stand the smell of the shit.
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The Royal Our Herobaums
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Post by The Royal Our Herobaums on May 27, 2008 8:40:12 GMT -5
I think the real issue with the Truth commercials is with those crowds of people...they're only getting half the song. Half the song is sung by people, and the other is sung by cartoons added in post-production. I bet the people seeing that live are just really confused, and can't follow what's going on. And I know from personal experience that nothing makes me want a cigarette more than confusion.
Man, I LOVE smoking. I also really enjoy sickly babies, and the idea of beating someone with a sack of oranges, and that scene in Billy Madsion where Eric is engulfed in flames during the academic decathalon, so I might be a bad person, overall.
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Post by markdown474 on May 27, 2008 8:48:02 GMT -5
I look at the Truth commercials the way I look at 99% of other commercials on the air; I'm indifferent to them. I'm not a smoker and after having 3 aunts die of smoking related cancer (one of whom had her voice box removed and had to hold that thing to her neck to talk like a very hard to understand robot), and an uncle who beat cancer, but had a lung removed and lived the last several years of his life wheeling around an oxygen tank with him before dying at age 70, the though of smoking makes me really sick. I don't really care what anyone else does, and I have several friends that smoke. But it does amaze me that so many young people smoke today when evidence of its downside is so apparent. They may be a bit odd, but the Truth commercials at least seem to be born out of good intentions. I think their use of cartoon characters and stuff is a comment on tobacco companies subtedly marketing toward children, but my own truth is that I don't really know enough about the issue to comment.
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Methusael86
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Post by Methusael86 on May 27, 2008 8:58:48 GMT -5
The only time I ever tolerated those truth.com commercials was when they did the "1 in 3 people die" commercials, where they start it off as a commercial for something else (soda for example) and one of the people suddenly explode.
This was about eight or nine years ago, and they haven't done any good ones since.
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Post by Red 'n' Black Reggie on May 27, 2008 9:10:37 GMT -5
I don't smoke and I could care less if anyone else does. I'm sure if your a smoker you know you could get Emphysema and die a slow, painful death. Good for you. Hope it works out. Just don't smoke around me because I can't stand the smell of the crap. exactly. i don't get the point of these ads. i couldn't give a rat's ass if or what you smoke. unless you're blowing it in my face, feel free. everyone knows the risks, and make choices based on them. i'm not gonna go on a massive campaign to stop other people from doing things that affect them and no one else.
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Post by x on May 27, 2008 9:17:46 GMT -5
I don't like people saying "You can get this from smoking."
Honestly.
You don't have to tell anybody about the diseases. We've all taken health class. We've all read the side of a cigarette box. As long as you aren't getting second hand smoke in your face, leave smokers alone.
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Post by acressl on May 27, 2008 9:29:23 GMT -5
Smoke or don't smoke. We don't need sucky sing songs with some haircut and a cartoon stork.
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Post by stevierichardsfan on May 27, 2008 9:43:13 GMT -5
wow
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Post by Time Lord Soundwave on May 27, 2008 9:57:26 GMT -5
What the f*** WAS that?!? It's ads like this that make me glad I don't the USA Network in Canada, and have to watch on The Score. The stupid.ca ads may be dumb, but they look like a graduate thesis compared to Truth.
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Post by Cap'n Crud on May 27, 2008 10:02:39 GMT -5
Truth is the new "Just Say No" a bullshit feel good campaign organized by political fat cats to waste tax money that could be used on things like oh I don't know paying to maintain inner city schools or help rebuild areas like New Orleans that were hit by natural disasters. It also helps distract everyone from the economy going down the crapper, gas prices going through the roof, and illegal immigrants using our border as little more than a subway turnstile.
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erisi236
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Post by erisi236 on May 27, 2008 10:06:59 GMT -5
Smoke.
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Post by acressl on May 27, 2008 10:11:32 GMT -5
You know what the best anti-drug is? You can't get a decent job without connections or sufficient chicanery. I find it works far better than anything the media could hit you with. Cigs though? Why they want to waste so much time and effort naysaying something that has every chance of being sold still is beyond me. Want to make a difference? Highjack a Phillip-Morris delivery truck and drive it straight into the ocean. Lawful? No. Responsible? No. Fair to the fishies? Not at all. But it would send a better message than lame tv ads the kids scoff at.
Suck jobs; my anti-drug.
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BRV
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Post by BRV on May 27, 2008 10:15:00 GMT -5
What's wrong with good old fashioned scare tactics? That's what I was raised on. I didn't need some 20-something with a banjo and a cartoon stork challenging my intelligence.
I don't think the people at Truth get it. Is the cartoon stork and dancing babies really all that necessary? They're hanging out up on their proverbial High Horse, telling us we shouldn't smoke and then dumbing their argument down with stupid gimmicks.
They have a good point to be made, that pregnant women shouldn't smoke, because of the potential for damaging birth defects on their children. However, once the cartoon stork and babies show up, the point of the conversation gets lost, and it becomes a "Its all the fault of those damned tobacco executives! They obviously don't care, so let's get 'em!"
If you need to tell a child that they shouldn't smoke, you look them in the eye and say "Don't f***ing smoke. Here's some reasons as to why you shouldn't f***ing smoke..." I wouldn't need the advice of a cartoon to keep their attention.
This whole ad campaign reeks of Joe Camel.
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Post by Time Lord Soundwave on May 27, 2008 10:16:13 GMT -5
"Timmy, where's Lassie?" "She's out in the orchid, ma. Peaches are comin' in mighty early this year." "You know what they say, Timmy: Early peaches, long summer." "Arf!" "What's that, Lassie?" "Are you smoking yet?"
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Post by MysteryPartner on May 27, 2008 10:44:16 GMT -5
The only way to quit smoking is Nicotrel. By the way I've been seeing these commercials showing that using magnets placed in your ear can help you quit smoking. HAHAHAHA
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