I can’t stand smoking at all. Can't stand smoking itself and being around a smoker. I feel my nostrils close automatically, I cannot breathe.
To smokers, it’s addictive I know, and it’s hard to quit it. But I can’t help but wonder how it starts with each one of them, what led them to smoke and why they continued when they knew it will kill them. But that's not what I want to talk about. I want to talk about the warnings and the Anti-smoking ads and campaigns.
It makes me laugh how there are health warnings on cigarettes’ packs for smokers to read. I was looking up a photo about it online and I noticed that it differs from country to country. Some have them in tiny letters on the back of the pack. While other countries include pictures showing the effect of smoking from gangrene, lung cancer, oral cancer, neck cancer… The photos are disgusting enough that I couldn’t stand to even look too much at them.
Some of the warnings were as simple as these:
“Smokers die sooner.
Smoking causes fatal diseases.
Smoking causes fatal lung cancer.
Smoking causes oral cancer.
Smoking isn’t just a suicide. It’s murder.
Smoking – A leading cause of death.
Smoking may reduce the blood flow and causes impotence.
Quitting will improve your health.” No!! really!!!
I admire mostly the fun and original side of some anti-smoking ads. This was hilarious the first time I read it.
The Cancer Patients Aid Association (CPAA), Smoking Room Ceiling... Quite impressive,..
Even Cartoons have their share...
Hats off to those campaigns and ads... Gotta love the originality...
