So If You Are An Active Smokers

[LIDL 692]

You really need to watch this:

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The new effort confronts a hard truth:

Despite increased tobacco taxes and bans in many public places,

the adult smoking rate hasn't really budged since 2003.

"When we look back on just a few decades to the days of smoking on airplanes and elevators, it can be easy to focus on how far we've come," said Secretary of Health and Human Resources Kathleen Sebelius, at a news conference.

But smoking continues to take a devastating toll on the American public, and the new ads are meant to be "a wake-up call" to smokers who may not truly grasp the dangers that still exist, she added.

The billboards and print, radio and TV ads show people whose smoking resulted in heart surgery, a tracheotomy, lost limbs or paralysis.

The $54 million campaign is the largest and starkest anti-smoking push by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its first national advertising effort.

The agency is hoping the spots, which begin Monday and will air for at least 12 weeks, will persuade as many as 50,000 Americans to stop smoking.

"This is incredibly important. It's not every day we release something that will save thousands of lives," CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden said in a telephone interview.

That bold prediction is based on earlier research that found aggressive anti-smoking campaigns using hard-hitting images sometimes led to decreases in smoking.

After decades of decline, the adult smoking rate has stalled at about 20 percent in recent years.

Advocates say it's important to jolt a weary public that has been listening to government warnings about the dangers of smoking for nearly 50 years.

"There is an urgent need for this media campaign," Matthew Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said in a statement.

One of the print ads features Shawn Wright from Washington state who had a tracheotomy after being diagnosed with head and neck cancer four years ago.

The ad shows the 50-year-old shaving, his razor moving down toward a red gaping hole at the base of his neck that he uses to speak and breathe.

An advertising firm, Arnold Worldwide, found Wright and about a dozen others who developed cancer or other health problems after smoking for the ads.

Federal health agencies have gradually embraced graphic anti-smoking imagery.

Last year, the Food and Drug Administration approved nine images to be displayed on cigarette packages.

Among them were a man exhaling cigarette smoke through a tracheotomy hole in his throat, and a diseased mouth with what appear to be cancerous lesions.

Last month, a federal judge blocked the requirement that tobacco companies put the images on their packages, saying it was unconstitutional.

Experts say some waves of anti-smoking ads have been hugely successful.

Those that aired in the late 1960s helped drive a 10 percent decline in per capita cigarette consumption from 1967 to 1970.

And the American Legacy Foundation's "Truth" ads from the early 2000s deserve substantial credit for a large drop in youth smoking at the time, they say.

The CDC ads are more graphic than spots that have aired nationally before.

The idea behind such ads is to create an image so striking that smokers and would-be smokers will think of it whenever they have an urge to buy a pack of cigarettes, said Glenn Leshner, a University of Missouri researcher who has studied the effectiveness of anti-smoking ads.

Leshner and his colleagues found that some ads are so disturbing that people reacted by turning away from the message rather than listening. So while spots can shock viewers into paying attention, they also have to encourage people that quitting is possible, he said.

The CDC campaign includes information on a national quit line and offers advice on how to kick the habit, CDC officials said.

Two of the largest tobacco companies issued statements, both acknowledging the health dangers of smoking but neither addressing the CDC ad campaign.

"We agree smoking is addictive and causes serious disease and for those who want to avoid the health effects of smoking, the best thing to do is to quit," said the statement by Richmond, Va.-based Altria Group Inc., owner of Philip Morris USA — the nation's biggest tobacco company.

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The truth have now speak.

[D.L.S 11]

If Disposable gets a cool hole like that, things will get kinky.

[Des 289]

The entire anti-smoking mafia may die in a fire for all I care.

"Look at me, I'm such a responsible and nice person by warning other people for the dangers of their habits! They already know the risks of course, but I still need to show the world how terrible smokers are and how good I am!"

And I don't even smoke.

[bonsaijodelfisch 328]

The entire anti-smoking mafia may die in a fire for all I care.

"Look at me, I'm such a responsible and nice person by warning other people for the dangers of their habits! They already know the risks of course, but I still need to show the world how terrible smokers are and how good I am!"

And I don't even smoke.

^ qft

[lilychuu 1]

If Disposable gets a cool hole like that, things will get kinky.

LOOL.

[nekkichi 6043]

how come Japan has more smokers per capita, yet cancer levels (esp lung/throat cancers) are still much lower than in US

maybe they should have tested more nuclear bombs and put even more donkey shit into cigarettes for their market

srsly, even being a passive smoker in north america sucks, people who put that shit into their mouths deserve every single cancer cell they've got from it

> An advertising firm, Arnold Worldwide, found Wright and about a dozen others who developed cancer or other health problems after smoking for the ads

well maybe they shouldn't have done it for the ads in the first place lol

[ginHigure 22]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Pity to smokers

[237Q 154]

so from a smoker's (3 years now) point of view:

yes, I am, and I believe every smoker is aware of the risk. nobody can actually say for sure WHY they first started, but we all know we can't quit just anytime. it takes a lot of determination and isolation from stressful events/situations in which one would normally smoke to quit. seeing ads and whatnot doesn't even catch our attention, but I guess it serves good for preventing non-smokers from starting. it's not such a lovely feeling to lie to bed every night and promise you won't ever again light a single cigarette, and find yourself chain smoking during coffee break next morning. Smokers ENJOY smoking but they sure as hell don't think it's GOOD (unless it's stupid teenagers we're talking about, but that's a completely different story).

[nekkichi 6043]

> so from a smoker's (3 years now) point of view

> stressful events/situations

> unless it's stupid teenagers we're talking about

> profile age: 17

lolforever

[Maiku 4]

[D.L.S 11]

I only have a problem with smokers when I have to breathe in all the crap they just breathed out, but if you look like that pic above I won't mind.

[237Q 154]

> so from a smoker's (3 years now) point of view

> stressful events/situations

> unless it's stupid teenagers we're talking about

> profile age: 17

lolforever

stupid teenagers who smoke just for the sake of "being cool" when it's not cool at all, who can but don't want to quit and who seem like they're just pretending they enjoy smoking. 2 years ago I was hiding my cigarettes not from my parents only but from most of my friends too. and yes I know how stupid it may look like

@maiku we gonna get some cool holes!

[Maiku 4]

Yay~! New orifices~!

[Pretsy 1343]

Disposable will surely get something even "cooler" before DEM HOLEZ.

Won't comment on "active smoking issues" because of neutrality...

[sai 868]

If Disposable gets a cool hole like that, things will get kinky.

I read this in class today and had to keep in my insane laughter to not look like an idiot.