What have you got against turtles?
Posted on 10/26/2007 7:40:46 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
ATLANTA - Drunks swimming in gin, smokers in body bags and dopers living with their parents deep into adulthood. Those are among the public service ads shown in the United States in the past.
But the U.S. government's new batch of obesity spots declines even to show a fat person, let alone wag a finger for gluttony or sloth.
No one is advocating public service announcements that ridicule fat people; experts say such spots would do more harm than good. But critics complain that the three new spots premiering this month are a wimpy attack on the costly and deadly explosion of obesity in America.
"It's so namby-pamby I think people will shrug it off," said Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington-based advocacy organization.
The three new spots are the latest in a series created by the Ad Council and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which try to tackle the U.S.'s obesity problem with ads that encourage healthy snacking and taking the stairs.
Creators of the "Small Steps" campaign, funded by the government at more than $1.5 million a year, cite survey data for 467 adults which showed those who saw the ads did more walking and adopted some other healthy habits than those who did not see the ads.
But critics say such a survey is hardly proof of success, and the U.S's fat problem is clearly getting worse — more than one in three U.S. children are overweight or obese, and two in three adults are.
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What have you got against turtles?
You forgot "getting the entire population addicted to a legal product, then taxing them because it's "bad" for them" Otherwise, you got it about right.
I thought I was just smoking too much, but they were swiping up to 2 packs a day, selling them for a buck each to kids at school.
In hindsight, I kinda wondered how they managed to buy the things they came home with. I thought they were just good at saving their money from part time jobs.
They were making up to $50 a day just going to school with my home rolled cigs.
They never neded "allowance", nor asked for it, now I know why. :o)
I saw the text of your post before I scrolled down far enough to see the photo but somehow I knew a picture of Nadler had to be lurking somewhere nearby.
I’m starting to think that the billions made on these bogus ab loungers are funding these looney anti obesity groups.
“I’m starting to think that the billions made on these bogus ab loungers are funding these looney anti obesity groups.”
Bingo. Follow the money!
I was just joking, but nothing would suprise me.
in a handbasket.
Bingo. I forget what they call it, but it’s an index to do with height vs. weight-and it was changed during the clinton administaration.
I bet Kennedy smokes. That was what used to piss me off worse than anything with Clinton was that he was pushing all these regulations on MY smoking but he was puffing away like there was no tomorrow, among other things.
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