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"If you vape, you're 4x more likely to start smoking cigarettes." - truth campaign


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1 minute ago, Mini_Ghost said:

okay that makes more sense :D

It's kinda tricky, because one way marketers use to market to kids is to use older teens and young adults in their ads, because that's who kids want to copy. They use puppets in this ad and it is not clear (to me at least) if they are teenager puppets or young adult puppets. And the stat they throw out that I quoted in the thread title makes no mention of any demographic information whatsoever.

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2 minutes ago, Doom Metal Alchemist said:

It's kinda tricky, because one way marketers use to market to kids is to use older teens and young adults in their ads, because that's who kids want to copy. They use puppets in this ad and it is not clear (to me at least) if they are teenager puppets or young adult puppets. And the stat they throw out that I quoted in the thread title makes no mention of any demographic information whatsoever.

I don't think their advertising is very effective 

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2 minutes ago, Mini_Ghost said:

I don't think their advertising is very effective 

I used to be VERY anti-smoking (I've since softened my stance since I started hanging around people who smoke. I'll still never smoke myself, though), but even at my most 'GODDAMNIT THERE'LL BE NO MORE SMOKING" point in my life, "truth" commercials just always pissed me off. 

I don't know, maybe it's because we're adults. I'm sure most of their ads are targeted to kids, maybe kids respond to them better than adults do.

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1 minute ago, Doom Metal Alchemist said:

I used to be VERY anti-smoking (I've since softened my stance since I started hanging around people who smoke. I'll still never smoke myself, though), but even at my most 'GODDAMNIT THERE'LL BE NO MORE SMOKING" point in my life, "truth" commercials just always pissed me off. 

I don't know, maybe it's because we're adults. I'm sure most of their ads are targeted to kids, maybe kids respond to them better than adults do.

even when I was a kid the anti-smoking adds just pissed me off. they didn't make me not want to smoke. that's for sure 

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1 minute ago, Mini_Ghost said:

even when I was a kid the anti-smoking adds just pissed me off. they didn't make me not want to smoke. that's for sure 

Oh when I was a kid I was right with the anti smoking ads. Especially the one with the old woman with the hole in her throat that had that scraggly voice. "I had my first cigarette when I was 13..." If there is only one reason why I have never smoked in my life, that ad is probably it.

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Just now, Doom Metal Alchemist said:

Oh when I was a kid I was right with the anti smoking ads. Especially the one with the old woman with the hole in her throat that had that scraggly voice. "I had my first cigarette when I was 13..." If there is only one reason why I have never smoked in my life, that ad is probably it.

yeah that was a good ad. they should use that one

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2 minutes ago, SwimModSponges said:

The truth campaign is funded by the tobacco industry to advertise to children using reverse psychology. 

Their campaign several years back where it was kids begging their parents to talk to them about why they shouldn't smoke directly influenced an increase in youth smoking.

That sounds more like an anti-weed campaign you're describing. In my lifetime parents have never had any trouble telling their kids why they shouldn't smoke cigarettes.

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15 minutes ago, discolemonade said:

roll joints. vape less. that's my campaign. 

ffs...

where's that damn door?

I have shit o do....I can't be high all day....Weird thing is, I haven't smoked this morning and now i'm too close to walking out the door to even try...I need at least an hour of chill time or I'm paranoid as shit

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13 minutes ago, cyberbully said:

I have shit o do....I can't be high all day....Weird thing is, I haven't smoked this morning and now i'm too close to walking out the door to even try...I need at least an hour of chill time or I'm paranoid as shit

i rolled one for the drive into work. 

and had one rolled for lunch. 

gawd damned pot heads 

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Yeah, I'm mentally screaming a lot of "citation needed!" for those ads.

The accompanying one with the "one juul pod contains as much nicotine" blah blah blah also bugs me. Like, ok? And you're just... trying to make a 1:1 comparison between pods and individual cigs? I'm no smoker or anything, but surely one vape pod is meant to replace more than a few cigs, right?

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