Posted on 06/15/2004 6:24:55 AM PDT by SheLion
PORTLAND, Maine -- The latest batch of anti-tobacco television advertisements created by Maine students features a guy with yellow teeth and a giant cigarette butt chasing children around.
The Department of Human Services had so much success with the original ads three years ago that Maine youths were tapped again for public service announcements that began airing Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Pity they can't use the tax money for prescription drug care and to help sick kids. Very sad indeed. I believe the cigarette tax money Mainers shell out should be going toward health care, and not given to TEENS to dream up shoddy commercials that make me think they are on 'ecstasy' when they create them.
That's right! Every time you buy a pack or a carton, that tax money is used to make these commercials. The FEDS aren't paying for them, and Maine Government isn't paying for them, but the SMOKERS!
I've smoked all of my adult life, and my teeth sure aren't yellow. I think a little personal hygiene should be taught, don't you?
I wish Maine smokers had a better say in how their tax money is being spent. I know several health programs this money could better support.
Demonizing smokers and terrifying children. What a great display of fantasy at taxpayer's expense.
You hit the nail right on the head, Glenn!
If the Maine smokers would only wake up to the fact that they are paying for this wasted air time! Parents should be teaching teens not to smoke! Not the adult taxpayers.
I don't know who Human Resources is trying to trick, but it sure isn't the majority of us!
I've been dipping for 2 1/2 years, and I take immaculate care of my mouth as a result. Whenever I see these moronic ad campaigns, I can't help but think of the Rob Reiner South Park...
Cartman: "Wow, Mr. Reiner. It's like smoking gives a lot of people just a little bit of pleasure, and you get to take that away from them. You're my idol."
The logical extension of the War on Drugs. Should anyone really be surprised?
Have you seen the "glassicle pops" advertisement? Next thing you know they'll be comparing smoking to tossing Jews into ovens.
Exactly. They sure like to hound about how smokers stink. I, personally, have never experienced this.
All my smoking friends, me included, have super hygiene. I think keeping a clean mouth and body is just part of being human.
Smokers who "stink" just don't take care of themselves, and I have never run across anyone that nasty!
(Well, maybe one or two when I was dating. LOL!
I'm sure the anti's have thought about it.
They are already trying to tie us in with terrorists!
Good, I'm sure you don't smell like an ashtray, but you should be more concerned about those crusty black lungs of yours. I'm not preaching, I just think it's strange you put your outward appearence over your overall health.
Hehe!!
Gosh! Don't worry about it. It's my personal choice and I am an adult.
At least I am not burning out my liver from drinking! You?
This won't stop anyone from smoking, it just lets the anti-smoking Nazis feel more smug.
If you want your 15 year-old to do something, forbit it. Rebellion is part of the age.
I don't see what there is to stop them. They've already inverted the effects of prohibition to claim that users support terror, when the clear facts show that prohibition itself is the biggest aid to terror funding. It's like blaming a drunk in a speakeasy for Al Capone's thugs.
I smoked - no longer - it isn't your concern.
I hate what they're doing to smokers. If it was so bad, they should ban them but we can't affect the revenue stream now can we?
Having said that, I get less angry at this demonizing every time I see a smoker throw a cigarette out a window, lit or not.
Bump
I'll be back
Exactly! My parents both told me if I ever started smoking, they would kill me. It was my girlfriends that got me on a weak moment when I was 16. I never would have started smoking if it wasn't for my girl friends. They all smoked, and I wanted to fit in. It wasn't the Joe Camel Ads or billboards or even seeing smoking in movies and TV. It was peer pressure. My parents taught me right from wrong, but the minute I walked out of the house, I did it "my way."
If you want your 15 year-old to do something, forbit it. Rebellion is part of the age.
Right again!
Thanks for your concern mommy!
It's a form of rebellion. I have never seen the likes of being able to buy a legal commodity yet being treated like a criminal for doing so.
Ok!
I don't understand what your trying to say. I am not familiar with this movie.
C'mon now, rebellion? I'll remember that when someone's cigarette starts a fire.
This has been going on long before the anti-smoking Nazis came on the scene. Why is it that smokers feel that they have a right to litter?
If smokers were a little more courteous, I'd be a little more vocal about the crap they have to go through.
I'm sure smokers love 'meathead' for the 50cent tax.
It's a guy thing. My hubby used to flick them out the window. I would get on him about it. I don't do it, and my girl friends who smoke do not do it. It's a guy thing.
If smokers were a little more courteous, I'd be a little more vocal about the crap they have to go through.
I'm sure smokers love 'meathead' for the 50cent tax.
50 cents? I wish that is all it was!
I liked the beginning where the Hitler Youth were giving their little anti-smoking show and ended it with, "Hey kids, you can be just like us!" The look of horror on the kids' faces in the audience was priceless.
In the next scene, the South Park kids were outside smoking up a storm in the schoolyard.
Yuk! Probably why I am not familiar with it. I love comedy's. LOL!
Don't know how I missed your ping........I've got some reading to do here!!!!!
I'm only talking about meathead's tax that people voted for. I'm sure that tax has saved millions and millions of lives...
The best line by the Butt Out! Troupe, which effectively encapsulates the lies and demagoguery of the anti-smoking lobby, is when they say something along the lines of...
"Hey kids, do you think smoking is cool? How about lung cancer, and emphysema? Is that cool too? What about abortion and AIDS?"
And so on and so forth. Gotta love those South Park boys.
Maine: Next round of youth cigarette ads is unveiled (Get Ready!)
I'm ready !!
Good for you. Washing your hands will get rid of much of the residual odor, but it takes a full cycle on the washer to get it out of the clothes.
I'm a smoker and get mighty ticked off when I see a smoker toss a butt out of the car window. I have actually pulled over to the side of the road and made a passenger get out and find the one just tossed out the window. No one tosses a cigarette butt out of my car---that is what the ashtrays are for.
Now butts on the sidewalks in cities or states with smoking bans is an entirely different story. I asked a bar owner in Delaware why they didn't have an ashcan outside their door and the reply I received made a great deal of sense to me...."The state has forced me to kick my smoking customers to the street to have a smoke, I didn't want to do it but was forced.....so they can clean up the mess. The state created the mess, not me."
Umm, actually, it is. You see, we pay the taxes that support the hospitals that provide care to smokers above and beyond the statistical mean.
I think I know why the tobacco lobby goes along with it. It urges kids to light up as an "up yours" to the ads.
It has been proven beyond doubt that smokers pay FAR more into the system in the form of taxes than they ever take out.
It really irked Henry Waxman when the Congressional Research Service came up with that information, when at his request they looked into his proposal for further raising of the federal cigarette tax.
OK! I am back and forth myself! :)
I doubt if much has changed as far as death is concerned. People will die if they smoke or not.
And when the taxes become to high, and smokers are sick and tired of balancing the state budget on their backs, they will find other ways of finding cheaper cigarettes.
Many of us have.
Thank you for ruining my lunch...................LOL!!!!!
A little concerned about that comment, I couldn't resist asking him, "Do you think I'll live to be 80?"
He asked, "well, do you smoke tobacco or drink beer or wine?" "Oh no", I replied. "I've never done either."
Then he asked, "Do you eat rib-eye steaks and barbecued ribs?" I said, "No, I heard that all that red meat is very unhealthy."
"Do you spend a lot of time in the sun, like playing golf / sailing / ballooning / motorcycling / rock climbing?" "No I don't", I said.
He said, "Do you gamble, drive fast cars, or sexually fool around?" "No", I said. "I have never done any of those things."
He looked at me and said, "Then why do you give a sh!t if you live to be 80?"
That's a bunch of hooey. Smokers pay MORE then their fair share in health care costs. Are you that easily swayed?
The BIG LIE That Smoking is an Economic Burden To Society
If the states used the cigarette tax money the way it was supposed to be used.........for health care, etc, you wouldn't be hearing this argument. However, with the MSA money they started up their own little pet programs and then when an uninsured sick smoker gets ill, they have to pull the money from somewhere else.
It's a big misconception that smokers are a burden on society. I, personally, have my own health insurance. If I ever get sick, no one pays anything for me. I pay my own way. And on top of that, when I bought state cigarettes, I had all those tax dollars to pay for every carton. Your wrong.
I can see by the list of topics following the article that the children are out in full force this morning..........
sheesh. Some people just don't get it............yet will be the first to start creaming when it is they who are being targetted.
Yes! If they would just shut up and leave the training for the parents, the focus wouldn't be on cigarettes on TV. We all know how much TV teens watch today.
And that still isn't a valid reason for these ads. Just because they slap the snarky ads on TV isn't going to start OR stop a teen from smoking.
I don't care WHAT Dr. Dora Mills says. She's wrong and she is just trying to justify her big paycheck from smoker's tax dollars.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!
Good one!
"You see, we pay the taxes that support the hospitals that provide care to smokers above and beyond the statistical mean."
Really? When did we go to socialized medicine? I guess I better get on my employer for providing me a health coverage plan when the government is providing one too. I better make sure they increase my salary with the savings.
Ooops. I did it again? LOL!
(Ain't he cute?)
isn't this the guy who had kids smoking in his film "STAND BY ME" Didn't scientist say that cigarrettes lead to drug abuse, wasn't river pheonix in his movie? ROB REINER KILLED RIVER PHEONIX!!
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