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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on May 27, 2008 16:39:54 GMT -5
I have a cigarette every time one of these commercials comes on. It's a little ritual I have. I thoroughly despise these self-righteous pricks. The ads are paid for by Philip Morris. In other words, you're playing right into their hands. DAMMIT!
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Post by Jake, The Jake, Jake on May 27, 2008 16:58:14 GMT -5
I just like how they come up with examples of business strategies that we're supposed to hate, but all I can think about is how brilliant they are. "Just tell them people would like smaller babies" Holy shit, thats genius!
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Post by Jake, The Jake, Jake on May 27, 2008 17:04:49 GMT -5
Another thing I can't stand, anytime someone says "cigarettes killed my mom." No, actually, your dumbass mom killed your mom and knew she was doing it all of the time.
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on May 27, 2008 17:06:34 GMT -5
Hey, the Berries and Cream Lad ads were surreal, not stupid. There is a difference.
Also, that whole thing where smokers get to leave their desk for smoke breaks. Yeah, that's annoying.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on May 27, 2008 17:11:51 GMT -5
The ads are paid for by Philip Morris. In other words, you're playing right into their hands. Actually, while they are funded by Phillip Morris, if I'm not mistaken the content and message is not controlled by them. It's essentially a donation they have to make due to a class action suit from years ago.
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Post by Max on May 27, 2008 17:24:17 GMT -5
LOL @ people on their high horses......
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Post by Mac on May 27, 2008 17:37:25 GMT -5
The funny thing is PM probably put a boatload of time and money into making these commercials have the absolute adverse effect they were suppose to on the surface. Since they cant advertise cigarettes on TV they needed to play around and advertise without directly advertising.
My guess is their next anti smoking ad will consist of an old man yelling at you.
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Post by charlie ford on May 27, 2008 18:06:54 GMT -5
i thought that was an add for gum
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Post by Sickfit, King Of The Fits on May 27, 2008 19:04:27 GMT -5
I don't smoke, but I find it really annoying when the obvious is constantly stated over and over again and is broadcasted to every TV station in America. People smoke, and for whatever reason they do it, I'll just keep to myself.
And I believe it was Bill Hicks who said (I'm paraphrasing):"They say that people who smoke will die. Well, aren't we all gonna go one day? Might as well speed up the process." And while I have seen my grandfather lose a lung from cancer, it's hypocritical of people who don't smoke to just say "Smoking will kill you." So will a car. Or a plane. Or bacteria. In America, we are always going to be slowly killing ourselves somehow, while people in poorer areas die from never getting the chance to survive. If we won't take responsibility for our own actions, we should at least take responsibility for our own deaths. There are circumstances where this doesn't always hold true, but the majority of the time, we are dying from the time we are born.
So, please, for the love of God, stop airing those stupid commercials. We get it. Those tobacco companies aren't gonna stop. Ever. They were the first moneymakers in our company and they will be our last when people are using the Sun as a lighter (which is actually a pretty amusing picture). Sure, it's that "can-do" attitude that makes me such a pessimist, but let's get real. If you don't like smoking, don't smoke. If you do, go ahead.
Isn't freedom great?
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Post by kitsunestar on May 27, 2008 19:50:26 GMT -5
I'm no smoker but, these stupid Truth ads make me want to do it, just to rile up them bastards. Now why can't they make it "Truthiness"? Because not everyone wants to turn everything into a pop-culture reference? The funny thing is PM probably put a boatload of time and money into making these commercials have the absolute adverse effect they were suppose to on the surface. Since they cant advertise cigarettes on TV they needed to play around and advertise without directly advertising. My guess is their next anti smoking ad will consist of an old man yelling at you. Actually, I'm pretty sure it's Lorillard that pays specifically for those Truth ads, not Philip Morris.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on May 27, 2008 20:11:48 GMT -5
I thought the commercial was dumb, I changed the channel. Problem solved.
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on May 27, 2008 20:15:25 GMT -5
Truth commercials make me wish I hadn't quit smoking. Hell, they make me want to start smoking.
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Post by amsiraK on May 27, 2008 20:31:58 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. Bucket of fish to you. Why else would they be so annoying? And these go beyond the normal level of preachy annoyingness. These just make people freakin' crazy. What better way to satisfy the lawsuits they got battered with while undermining it at the same time.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2008 20:56:43 GMT -5
I thought the commercial was dumb, I changed the channel. Problem solved. Me too. But it still gets on my nerve whenever they come on.
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Post by smgalia on May 27, 2008 21:42:13 GMT -5
i like the whole smoking kills crap they put out there. What about alcohol? It kills more every year than smoking. When someone dies of cancer, they look into their past and ask questions like "did he/she smoke? did he/she live around smokers?" Everytime that a person dies, they look into their history and see if there was a smoke anywhere in the gene pool and ad that to their stats on smoke related deaths. Want to stop harmful "smoke?" Stop making cars, buring plastic, nuke plants, SUVs, dumping waste into oceans and lakes that we drink, stop making planes. I'm willing to bet that the stuff that gets out of cars will kill you faster than a smokers smoke. And if I remeber correctly, the study that was done about second hand smoke was inconclusive, meaning there was no cause of death from second hand smoke. is it annoying to the non-smokers? Yes, but don't preach to me about your "space" is being violated. Most of these non smoking self right wimps own SUVs that put out a lot more toxins in the air than my Marlboro. And as for the ads? If I wanted preaching and being told what not to do and what to do, I'll go to church...no offense
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Post by Ass Dan on May 27, 2008 23:12:07 GMT -5
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Post by The"threadicidal"bristolspapa on May 27, 2008 23:25:13 GMT -5
Can I get an inconsistency corrected here? Many of these commercials contain the phrase (or something similar) "Tobacco/Smoking killed x people in 2006." The pot lobby usually grabs a hold of these phrases to say, "See, not one documented case of someone dying from pot. Sure people have died while high, but not from actually smoking it."
Now, it would seem to me, that the only way for someone to literally die from cigarettes would be if they were to literally inhale the cigarette. The death comes from cancer and emphysemia. Why isn't the same logic applied to both products?
I'll take a stab at answering this myself. Products are worse when guys wearing suits make money off of them.
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Post by Rockhound on May 27, 2008 23:40:48 GMT -5
There are these grownups around kids called parents. This should be their responsibility.
Anyhoo, I quit smoking 22 years ago. I smoked 2 packs a day, menthol. 4 packs on a good Saturday night. I quit, cold turkey, 1/1/87. Did I quit because of my health? Partly. My main motivation? The price. At the time cigarettes reached about $1.50 a pack. I did the math. I was spending about $20 a week on smokes. In today's dollars...I hate to think about it. I have better things to spend my money on. Why price is never brought up in one of these commercials astounds me.
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Post by nate5054 on May 28, 2008 2:29:55 GMT -5
Have they at least got rid of the stupid guy with the glasses?
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Post by Red 'n' Black Reggie on May 28, 2008 6:32:23 GMT -5
I think Denis Leary said it best when he said, "Its like smokers around the world are going to wake up one day and say, 'Yeah Jim, I've got a pack of smokes right here I - HOLY crap THESE THINGS ARE BAD FOR YOU!!! I thought they had vitamin C in them and stuff" bwahahahahaha! that's awesome, i need to try and fit that quote in somewhere in daily conversation. but yeah, that more or elss sums it up. smokers know that smoking is bad, they either A) don't care, or B) are doing something about it. although the stupidest anti-cig ad i've ever seen is this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5oJ5fsfYLs&feature=relatedi can't find the english version, but the voice over says, "this may look stupid, but tobacco often makes you do stupid things". yes, that's their reason not to smoke. "it will make you blow into those whistly things you get at parties".
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