I mentioned anti-smoking adverts in one of the posts I did ages ago, and how I came across a lot of really good ones here.
I thought I might post a couple of the ones I thought were really good on here, and I’d love to hear back from people, and if they think that they are in anyway effective.
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- Smoking harms children
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- The Smoking Effect
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- Smoking, your future 1
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- Smoking, your future 2
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- The Smoking Room
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- Smoking Kills Slowly
The first one, ‘Smoking harms children’ is quite a disturbing image. A crying child is one thing, but the imagery of a child being suffocated by what looks like a plastic bag, but is actually cigarette smoke is quite disturbing. However, does this actually bother people without kids? Or people who don’t smoke around kids? Obviously it’s targeted at a specific audience, and it’s probably quite a disturbing image to parents, but these days not many parents will smoke around their small children. It reminds me of an Australian anti-smoking advert which caused a lot of controversy, as the child was actually left by his mother in order to film him crying.
The smoking effect is a really great graphic, it looks really good and is quite chilling, but personally doesn’t do anything for me. To me, I get the illusion that it’s someone trying to quit, and struggling to get away from smoking.
The next two, ‘Smoking, your future’ actually quite affected me. You see these two young and beautiful girls smoking, and the reflection of their future in the mirror. One has aged badly, and looks sad and old. The other is obviously being treated for cancer. The expression on her face really affected me. I think more so because I am a young female smoker.
The next one is a bit of black humour, where in a room designed for smokers, if you look up the ceiling is painted to make it look like you are in a grave with a mourning family standing over, and a priest. This one I find more amusing, and inventive, but doesn’t make me consider quitting smoking.
The final one is almost scary. This one did bother me, the implying of the slow death, and the half man half skull graphic disturbed me.
Did these bother any one else? If so, which one in particular and why? I think some of these are better than the ones where they show the effects on the human body. Do you agree?
