There is a pretty gnarly anti texting-while-driving one. Hard to watch. How much you wanna bet the Amtrak engineer was fooling with his phone?
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Anti-Smoking PSAs
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I quit smoking cigarettes 18 years ago.
The HARDEST part was watching all the stop smoking ads on TV. Lighting em up, putting em out, every ad break.
They are still on TV all these years later.
It's hilarious watching 50s hollywood movies . Every friggin scene, pulling the smoke out the pack,putting it to their lips, lighting it, exhaling.....every friggin scene,especially Robert Mitchum movies haha. Don't tell me tobacco companies weren't financing those movies.
The HARDEST part was watching all the stop smoking ads on TV. Lighting em up, putting em out, every ad break.
They are still on TV all these years later.
It's hilarious watching 50s hollywood movies . Every friggin scene, pulling the smoke out the pack,putting it to their lips, lighting it, exhaling.....every friggin scene,especially Robert Mitchum movies haha. Don't tell me tobacco companies weren't financing those movies.
I've heard an anti coffee ad recently, something from the HMO type folks. Beginning of the end, oh well.
By the way, your stereotyping me for living in Texas is pretty damn weak man. I guess you are pretty sure I am a gun nut, racist, tea party member as well.
Why would anyone think those things about Texans?
Yup. "Mechanized Death" is the one I remember.
Always thought it woulda been a good name for a metal band.
I never took the drivers ed in high school, but I guess ours was Blood On The Asphalt.
Kinda morbid, but I always felt like I missed out by not taking the class and not seeing the movie. Same with how my school didn't dissect frogs. And not because I necessarily had a strong urge to experience either of these things, but growing up it just seemed like one of those quintessential high school experiences.
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I agree bigtime with everything there, except that people only smoke to get nicotine - which I believe might be a slip up on the paraphrasing. Many people believe they have this incredible addiction to nicotine, and it's complete BS. Yes, it's addictive, but take it from a guy who's been addicted to lots of things in his life - it's not a big deal. Not by a long shot. The "habit" part of smoking is the tough thing to quit, not the nicotine. I smoked between 2 and 3 packs of cigarettes a day for the last 10 years of my smoking. When I was finally able to quit, without any nicotine patches or gum (which I tried and didn't do squat), the only withdrawal I had about equaled a bad cold. And I felt like I was high for a while. That's it. My body didn't have crazy nicotine cravings, but I wanted to smoke, and had to break the habit part. Cinnamon sticks did the trick for me, first 3 months sans cigarettes. All the other times I tried to quit, and chewed nicotine gum, it didn't take away any urges whatsoever.
Nicotine supplements give people a false sense of security. Just as many people quit with them as without (possibly even more without), and lots of people use them and still never quit. I think it's far better to just get that poison out of your system and be done with it.
As for the commercials, I don't think they work, but who can say for sure. It may have an effect on an impressionable 6 year old. Teen however are indestructible. Nothing horrible can ever possibly happen to them.
I think we are exposed to far worst things on television commercials than a warning against smoking. Besides, who couldn't love !Jeff!
Or maybe people figured out the ill effects of smoking and became more educated about the harm it does.
Why do you lump e-cigs into the same category as the other two?
Disgusting anti-smoking ads are a necessary evil. The flipside of their message is that 'smoking is cool', and what are you supposed to counter cool with? I can't think of anything stronger than disgust. Remember those ads where they'd get a celebrity to come and say how uncool it is to smoke? In trying to make smoking/non-smoking into some kind of coolness arms race, they just end up looking dorky and lame to kids - the rebel who's doing something he shouldn't is always cooler than the abstinent guy who knows better. I'm not saying it's right, but we all know it's true. Disgusting imagery sort of short-circuits the smoking-is-cool message by taking the battle to a different front.
This study suggests that they do work: Invalid Link Removed
Abstract:
Background
In 2012, CDC launched the first federally funded national mass media antismoking campaign. The Tips From Former Smokers (Tips) campaign resulted in a 12% relative increase in population-level quit attempts.
Purpose
Cost-effectiveness analysis was conducted in 2013 to evaluate Tips from a funding agency’s perspective.
Methods
Estimates of sustained cessations; premature deaths averted; undiscounted life years (LYs) saved; and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) gained by Tips were estimated.
Results
Tips saved about 179,099 QALYs and prevented 17,109 premature deaths in the U.S. With the campaign cost of roughly $48 million, Tips spent approximately $480 per quitter, $2,819 per premature death averted, $393 per LY saved, and $268 per QALY gained.
Conclusions
Tips was not only successful at reducing smoking-attributable morbidity and mortality but also was a highly cost-effective mass media intervention.
This study appears to have reached similar conclusions: Invalid Link RemovedIn 2012, CDC launched the first federally funded national mass media antismoking campaign. The Tips From Former Smokers (Tips) campaign resulted in a 12% relative increase in population-level quit attempts.
Purpose
Cost-effectiveness analysis was conducted in 2013 to evaluate Tips from a funding agency’s perspective.
Methods
Estimates of sustained cessations; premature deaths averted; undiscounted life years (LYs) saved; and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) gained by Tips were estimated.
Results
Tips saved about 179,099 QALYs and prevented 17,109 premature deaths in the U.S. With the campaign cost of roughly $48 million, Tips spent approximately $480 per quitter, $2,819 per premature death averted, $393 per LY saved, and $268 per QALY gained.
Conclusions
Tips was not only successful at reducing smoking-attributable morbidity and mortality but also was a highly cost-effective mass media intervention.
Abstract:
Background
Every year, smoking kills more than 5 million people globally, including 440 000 people in the USA, where the long-term decline in smoking prevalence has slowed. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) delivered a national, 3-month antismoking campaign called Tips From Former Smokers (Tips) that started in March, 2012, in which hard-hitting, emotionally evocative television advertising was featured, depicting smoking-related suffering in real people. We aimed to assess the effects of the Tips campaign.
Methods
We undertook baseline and follow-up surveys of nationally representative cohorts of adult smokers and non-smokers. The national effect of the Tips campaign was estimated by applying rates of change in the cohort before and after the campaign to US census data.
Findings
3051 smokers and 2220 non-smokers completed baseline and follow-up assessments. 2395 (78%) smokers and 1632 (74%) non-smokers recalled seeing at least one Tips advertisement on television during the 3-month campaign. Quit attempts among smokers rose from 31·1% (95% CI 30·3–31·9) at baseline to 34·8% (34·0–35·7) at follow-up, a 12% relative increase. The prevalence of abstinence at follow-up among smokers who made a quit attempt was 13·4% (95% CI 9·7–17·2). Nationally, an estimated 1·64 million additional smokers made a quit attempt, and 220 000 (95% CI 159 000–282 000) remained abstinent at follow-up. Recommendations by non-smokers to quit grew from 2·6% at baseline to 5·1% at follow-up, and the prevalence of people talking with friends and family about the dangers of smoking rose from 31·9% (95% CI 31·3–32·5) to 35·2% (34·6–35·9), resulting in an estimated 4·7 million additional non-smokers recommending cessation services and more than 6 million talking about the dangers of smoking.
Interpretation
The high-exposure Tips media campaign was effective at increasing population-level quit attempts. The growth in smokers who quit and became sustained quitters could have added from a third to almost half a million quality-adjusted life-years to the US population. Expanded implementation of similar campaigns globally could accelerate progress on the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and reduce smoking prevalence globally.
Every year, smoking kills more than 5 million people globally, including 440 000 people in the USA, where the long-term decline in smoking prevalence has slowed. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) delivered a national, 3-month antismoking campaign called Tips From Former Smokers (Tips) that started in March, 2012, in which hard-hitting, emotionally evocative television advertising was featured, depicting smoking-related suffering in real people. We aimed to assess the effects of the Tips campaign.
Methods
We undertook baseline and follow-up surveys of nationally representative cohorts of adult smokers and non-smokers. The national effect of the Tips campaign was estimated by applying rates of change in the cohort before and after the campaign to US census data.
Findings
3051 smokers and 2220 non-smokers completed baseline and follow-up assessments. 2395 (78%) smokers and 1632 (74%) non-smokers recalled seeing at least one Tips advertisement on television during the 3-month campaign. Quit attempts among smokers rose from 31·1% (95% CI 30·3–31·9) at baseline to 34·8% (34·0–35·7) at follow-up, a 12% relative increase. The prevalence of abstinence at follow-up among smokers who made a quit attempt was 13·4% (95% CI 9·7–17·2). Nationally, an estimated 1·64 million additional smokers made a quit attempt, and 220 000 (95% CI 159 000–282 000) remained abstinent at follow-up. Recommendations by non-smokers to quit grew from 2·6% at baseline to 5·1% at follow-up, and the prevalence of people talking with friends and family about the dangers of smoking rose from 31·9% (95% CI 31·3–32·5) to 35·2% (34·6–35·9), resulting in an estimated 4·7 million additional non-smokers recommending cessation services and more than 6 million talking about the dangers of smoking.
Interpretation
The high-exposure Tips media campaign was effective at increasing population-level quit attempts. The growth in smokers who quit and became sustained quitters could have added from a third to almost half a million quality-adjusted life-years to the US population. Expanded implementation of similar campaigns globally could accelerate progress on the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and reduce smoking prevalence globally.
Because it is theatrical fog with nicotine mixed in. Horror.
Don't forget to lump the prescription nicotine inhalers in with that lot. Huh? They're medicine made by global pharma companies that dump millions of dollars into the "lung associations" that are filling the public with nonsense about ecigs while humping their inhaler products at astronomical prices? Ok inhalers are the exception. They got the juice behind them.
Because, the evidence is indicating that e-cigs have significant negative effects on their users and bystanders. There hasn't been enough research completed and properly analyzed to say so definitively, but what has been done is pointing that way.
BTW, the only issue I have with raising the taxes on these things is the encouragement it provides to criminal activity.
I think the 'significant negative effects' can be psychological. To some folks, just the sight of someone 'smoking' causes manifest physical reaction.
Many years ago (long before there were any bans on smoking in public spaces), I was having breakfast with friends at a beach bistro on an outdoors patio.
The tables were packed tightly to accommodate the weekend crowd, and all the tables were occupied. We finished our meal, paid the tab, and waited for the waitress to return with the check. I popped a cigarette in my mouth and was about to light it, but considered the proximity of the other patrons in the vicinity and out of consideration, decided NOT to light it. But I left it in my mouth and was holding it..
A woman at an adjacent table started coughing uncontrollably and really made a scene. Her husband ( boyfriend?) said something like "would you please put out that cigarette?"
Everyone in the area stopped talking and realizing the my cigarette was not lit, started laughing.
So that shows that some people are affected by just the sight of someone smoking.
No doubt your point is valid. Just like allergies to MSG and gluten, but studies are indicating that e-cigs are similar to cigs in terms of health consequences. Time will tell.
