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Anti-Smoking PSAs

#61
Tom Lane said:
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.
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Indeed! I researched vaporizers and e-cigs for a couple of weeks about a year ago. It's not the actual smoke or vapor causing the majority of fatal symtpoms, but the nicotine itself. The nicotine constricts the blood vessels, makes the heart work harder, forces the brain to rewire itself over and over, etc.

I got tired of hearing so many of my peers claim that "vaping" was perfectly healthy. Narp.

The warnings do work. The fact that there is a thread on this and not on how a woman gave a carl's jr burger fellatio in slow motion proves how effective the campaigns are at making you recall their information.
 
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#62
ddnidd1 said:
If you're Absolutely Repulsed by them and they Assault your Sensibilities - pick up the remote.
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And hit the off button. I find when I have the idjit box on, I get idjit content.

Stopping the electron flow to these mind numbing devices at regular intervals has many benefits. Gross, manipulative and patently false information flow is eliminated, often followed but higher levels of conversation flow, better neural stimulation and even improving your worldview. (Life sucks! Watch at 11!)

Now that Intel has invented a chip that will allow a lens in the cable box to identify who is in view watching the device (facial recognition) and tailor the advertising content to the viewers habits or preferences (Thanks G00gle!), I may be forced to get rid of Big Brother all together.

I may have run out of tin foil though.
 
#63
Thor said:
And hit the off button. I find when I have the idjit box on, I get idjit content.

Stopping the electron flow to these mind numbing devices at regular intervals has many benefits. Gross, manipulative and patently false information flow is eliminated, often followed but higher levels of conversation flow, better neural stimulation and even improving your worldview. (Life sucks! Watch at 11!)

Now that Intel has invented a chip that will allow a lens in the cable box to identify who is in view watching the device (facial recognition) and tailor the advertising content to the viewers habits or preferences (Thanks G00gle!), I may be forced to get rid of Big Brother all together.

I may have run out of tin foil though.
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There was a conspiracy theory I heard a few years back that the flicker rate of televisions actually puts parts of the mind into a trance. I don't know if it is true though. I never personally read into it.
 
#66
48thStreetCustom said:
Ugh! have you ever seen Irish road safety ads?

WARNING: NSFW!

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The U.S. needs something like this for texting while driving, for that matter, talking on the phone while driving. And BTW, if they offend you, a public service designed to educate the public to save lives and prevent suffering, not to mention the rest of the public paying the healthcare costs and loss in productivity, then watch Netflix or Tivo and avoid the commercials. More first-world problems.
 
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Tom Lane said:
The U.S. needs something like this for texting while driving, for that matter, talking on the phone while driving. And BTW, if they offend you, a public service designed to educate the public to save lives and prevent suffering, not to mention the rest of the public paying the healthcare costs and loss in productivity, then watch Netflix or Tivo and avoid the commercials. More first-world problems.
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I couldn't disagree more. It's treating people like they're guilty until proven innocent.
 
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48thStreetCustom said:
I couldn't disagree more. It's treating people like they're guilty until proven innocent.
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Nah. It's just a reminder of what could happen. And since it happens a lot, I'm all for it. I live on a busy road and last year there was a nasty head on wreck right in front of my house. Texting, crossed the center line, bam. I ride motorcycles. Could have been me leaving or returning home. Scary stuff.
 
#72
Hopkins said:
Considering that they simply don't work, I don't think I should be forced to be be subjected to them. Especially around lunch/dinner time, I don't wanna see that when I am eating.
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Cite sources, please. From LiveScience: "Cigarette smoking has hit the lowest point ever among American adults, a new report finds. The percentage of U.S. adults who smoke cigarettes was 17.8 percent in 2013, a drop from 20.9 percent in 2005, and the lowest rate of smoking since researchers began tracking this figure in 1965, according to the report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)." Of course, this doesn't necessarily mean that the ads are working, but something is getting people to quit.

If you Google "Do anti-smoking ads work?" you'll find the general consensus is that they do.
 
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Pretty much everyone that I know, who has smoked for 25 years or more, has paid a price for it with their health. My mom had a massive heart attack when she was 54. My aunt, a stroke. One of my good buddies at work had about 3 inches of his esophagus cut out last year. A cousin of mine died of cancer at 45 years old. Same with my sister in law's sister a few months ago. I have a good friend at work who's about to retire at 60 next year, looking forward to moving down south. She has emphysema, still smokes, and dropped about 50 lbs of weight this year for unknown reasons. I don't think she's going to make it to retirement. I could go through my phonebook from the 80s and pull out countless names of people who are sick, or already gone from cigarettes.

Yet when I was smoking 3 packs a day at 19, I was invincible. I still thank god on an almost daily basis that I escaped that horrible addiction. It's been over 25 years since I had a cigarette, and I'm probably in the best shape and health of my life now.

I'm happy about the PSAs. I don't think they have any effect on people who are already smoking (no proof of that, just my opinion), but I think as I said earlier in this thread that they're great for younger kids. I have a friend who till this day can't go near radishes because of some cartoon she saw when she was a kid where radishes came to life in someone's belly - or something like that. I had a cousin who was a heroin addict when I was a kid. My father helped him get clean, and used to bombard us with pamphlets, pictures, all kinds of info on the horrors of heroin. It worked. I never touched it. Now if only he had done the same with weed, cigarettes, and alcohol.... :). The heroin thing had a definite effect on me. Had my opportunities to get involved with that, and some of those opportunities were really enticing. I just always had the red lights flashing in my head with it. It was off limits. No way. End of story. Not happening.
 
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Munjibunga said:
Cite sources, please. From LiveScience: "Cigarette smoking has hit the lowest point ever among American adults, a new report finds. The percentage of U.S. adults who smoke cigarettes was 17.8 percent in 2013, a drop from 20.9 percent in 2005, and the lowest rate of smoking since researchers began tracking this figure in 1965, according to the report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)." Of course, this doesn't necessarily mean that the ads are working, but something is getting people to quit.

If you Google "Do anti-smoking ads work?" you'll find the general consensus is that they do.
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You don't think that smoking is down in adults because of the well known health problems that it causes? I have never met a smoker that quit because one of those PSA's scared him or her straight. They quit because it is common knowledge that that smoking is horrible for you.
 
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People smoke less now because of the money.

When I started smoking, cigarettes were 65 cents a pack. When I quit they were $1.35. It wasn't too expensive to smoke 3 packs a day. Today that would be impossible for me, financially. Unless I quit having a car, or a roof over my head.
 
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Hopkins said:
You don't think that smoking is down in adults because of the well known health problems that it causes? I have never met a smoker that quit because one of those PSA's scared him or her straight. They quit because it is common knowledge that that smoking is horrible for you.
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And part of the reason the health effects are "common knowledge" is because of anti-smoking PSAs.
 
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Febs said:
And part of the reason the health effects are "common knowledge" is because of anti-smoking PSAs.
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I am pretty sure everyone knew that smoking was bad for you long before they started showing ads of people pulling their teeth out, people with holes in their neck, or people with body parts falling off.
 
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If they took everything I felt was offensive to me off broadcast, you would think you went back to the 50's with a couple of hours a day on two channels.

I had a smoking related cardiac arrest so..the anti smoking adds don't bother me.

I've never abused a dog. They could take all those dog abuse adds off TV. They are hard to watch.
 
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Munjibunga said:
...If you Google "Do anti-smoking ads work?" you'll find the general consensus is that they do.
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True but are the decreased smoker figures solely the result of anti-smoking campaigns or a combination of ads, insane cigarette prices, increased anti-smoking laws (e.g. no smoking in public), and the perception that smoking cigarettes is a dirty, outdated habit for "old people" that is being replaced by e-cigs?

I had my last cigarette on NYE 2012. I went to e-cigs and over a year ramped down the nicotine level to zero. I still vape daily at zero nicotine for the simple fact that I like inhaling stuff. :atoz:
 

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