Comments on: Non Smoking Area – Anti-Smoking Advertisement

By: GrandAdmiralThrawn

GrandAdmiralThrawn — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:12:30 +0000

I agree; this is wrong

By: itsanospreyyoufool

itsanospreyyoufool — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:02:59 +0000

The disrespectful no talent hacks also did a poor job cloning the area without the markers. Really, how long would it have taken to clone out the names? Most of those soldiers gave their lives fighting commies back when smoking was good for you. I don’t smoke, but I also don’t care what other people do as long as it doesn’t affect my rights.

Bill Hicks was a prophet! We should posthumously elect him as president.

By: gregslady

gregslady — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:25:38 +0000

If anyone would like to join me in writing TBWA about this disrespectful and inappropriate ad, their website is www.tbwa.com and their PR guy is Jeremy Miller, email jeremy.miller@tbwaworld.com. These soldiers didn’t die to be poster boys in a PSA, and the agency didn’t even have the respect to completely eliminate the names and dates from the headstones.

By: coolghoul

coolghoul — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:11:09 +0000

Living healthy is just the slowest form of dying.

By: Kaze

Kaze — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:42:48 +0000

Oh, so there are! Didn’t see that first time around.

By: reboot

reboot — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:35:29 +0000

There’s definitely names and dates on those grave markers.

By: Kaze

Kaze — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:31:52 +0000

If it were a WWII graveyard, and they’re unmarked graves wouldn’t that imply that they were jews? And if they were jews, why would they have crosses, instead of the star of david?

By: MikeBabaguh

MikeBabaguh — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:26:52 +0000

I also thought this appeared to be an altered picture of a WWII graveyard.

This angers me greatly.

I hate smokers as much as the next man, but to resort to this blasphemy?

By: Phyreblade

Phyreblade — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:10:35 +0000

Bsinger1017 on February 26th, 2008 9:06 pm

I donÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t smoke anymore, but seriouslyÃ¢â‚¬Â¦.who wants to live to be 90 anyway?

Hugh Hefner?

By: Caio

Caio — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:40:28 +0000

I know that smokers die younger, but that’s not what this add suggests. First of all, it suggests that non-smokers are a minority, which is not true in any country, and plays up the the ‘waa waa I’m oppressed’ attitude that virtually everyone cops nowadays. If I believed all the crying I’ve heard, I would have to think that every oppressed person in oppressing at least 20 other people to make all this oppression possible.

Second of all, it implies that non-smokers will literally live forever. Seriously, there is no other way to interpret this ad. Guess what: Live as healthy as you want, and you could be hit by a car tomorrow.

Thirdly: Unwarranted self-importance. Everyone on fucking earth knows that smoking is unhealthy. I don’t need a non-smoking Jesus to guide me into the light. Smokers know the risks, know the risks they present to others, and do not need some bitchy prophet playing mother to them. No one is asking you to save them, and you’re not a priest. Anti-tobacco people are insignificant slime like the rest of us except that are so devoid of purpose or fulfilment that they are willing to delude themselves into thinking they’re making a difference when in fact they are just very very annoying and repetitive.