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What Those 'Funny' Old Smoking Ads Really Show

slideshows.health.com — Hey, if my doc smokes 'em.....

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  • sungoddess808, on 10/10/2008, -6/+70Amazing how they used to promote tobacco as if it was good for you.
    • cloudberries, on 10/11/2008, -0/+10I've always loved the old Guinness adverts. No beating around the bush there...

      http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=guinness+is+go ...
      • FelixDeluxe, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2Most of those are actually in use.
      • jhnsnp, on 10/11/2008, -1/+1Well there is some fact to it.
      • benotago, on 10/11/2008, -2/+4Guinness does actually has nutritional value
      • BoonTobias, on 10/11/2008, -1/+1i have one last guinness in my fridge, bwahahahahhaah
      • schnitzelnoodle, on 10/11/2008, -0/+0I could go for a guinness, some strew, and soda bread...
      • bullhead2007, on 10/11/2008, -0/+11-2 pints of Guinness a day is actually not bad for you.
      • schnitzelnoodle, on 10/11/2008, -0/+0did i say strew? meant stew..
    • nick111, on 10/11/2008, -1/+4Yea, and funnily enough, the PR companies they hired - people like APCO (who founded the "Advancement of Sound Science Coalition", beloved of so many C&P vigilantes on digg) haven't gone away:

      http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_cont ...

      http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/sep/19/ ...

      ***** me, it's almost laughable isn't it?
    • wavesmachine, on 10/11/2008, -0/+7it's sad, but pretty much every commercial is a lie these days.
      • warsongs7, on 10/11/2008, -1/+2Try and find the national hair and scalp foundation advertised on the Head & Shoulders ad here in Aus.
      • forcedfx, on 10/11/2008, -0/+3You mean this one? http://ahsf.com.au/
      • hauntedchippy, on 10/11/2008, -0/+3Was there ever a time when they weren't lies?
        Actually, I'm going to argue that these days they are more honest. Why? Because we have regulatory bodies these days that scrutinise ads for factual content/claims. OFCOM regularly removes adverts if they are found to be even stretching the truth. The result of all this scrutiny is that ads now have to make you want the product even though it can't do anything miraculous, and they do this by showing beautiful people have fun and increasing their social position by using the product in question. And of course, we can't resist such sublime propaganda.
    • Stoyanov, on 10/11/2008, -2/+4How long before we realize that cell phones do increase the risk of growing a tumor--another 80 years? What's more--even pre-teens use those most of their time nowadays...
    • 0dnj0, on 10/11/2008, -0/+1just like cell phones these days
    • EhBlueDuck, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2The Stanford gallery link at the end was even better.

      http://lane.stanford.edu/tobacco/index.html
    • gquaglia, on 10/11/2008, -2/+2Kind of like all the potheads on Digg that are always claiming the same thing.
      • unfromcool, on 10/11/2008, -1/+0But it IS good for you! It cures all diseases and improves your lung capacity AND makes you better looking!

        Agreed, all of these "pro-Marijuana" articles are just as bad as these adverts. Is marijuana just as bad? Probably not. I'm just saying the advertisements are.
      • EhBlueDuck, on 10/12/2008, -0/+2Love you ignorant retards who think that health conscious people still SMOKE marijuana. Just shows how out of touch you are.

        Please don't respond unless you plan on referencing studies listing the detrimental effects of eating, vaporizing, or drinking marijuana.
  • hyankov, on 10/10/2008, -1/+39"Not recommended for children under 6", but they should be fine, though...
  • jggube, on 10/10/2008, -1/+19Wow, smoke cigarettes to relieve sore throats... how ironic.
    • curtisblow, on 10/11/2008, -0/+6That's what the menthols are for ;)
    • sadhesati, on 10/11/2008, -3/+3I think it's even better that they claim to fight bad breath. I know I just love kissing someone who's just smoked a cigarette. /sarcasm
  • Aliwalla, on 10/11/2008, -3/+133Ah the good old days, when nothing killed us and there weren't sexual predators and terrorists hiding behind every bush.
    • CDHarrisUSF, on 10/11/2008, -6/+55Ah the good old days, when alcohol was prohibited, birth control was still widely illegal, there were anarchists/socialists/communists/klansmen/gangsters behind every bush, Hitler published Mein Kampf, and Mussolini became Prime Minister of Italy... and that's just the 1920s.
      • nickcommie, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2Hi! I know a lot of anarchists, socialists and communists. None of us hide behind anything.
    • Thefatheroftime, on 10/11/2008, -2/+13And ah the good old days when all of what CDHarrisUSF was true AND all the same stuff was killing us then as is killing us now, and there were sexual predators. They weren't hiding behind bushes though.
    • Niubai, on 10/11/2008, -1/+11Ah the good old days when I didn't have to work and used to just care about school, football and my nintendo. Almost everything was a reason to be happy and excited. Nowadays, only booze and women get me happy and excited ... :(
      • OiPunk, on 10/11/2008, -0/+3Yeah, welcome to life.
        Mm, booze and women. . .
    • InYourHonor, on 10/11/2008, -1/+9Yes sexual predators and Terrorists hiding behind every G.W. Bush
    • oblivian92, on 10/11/2008, -0/+3Ah the good old days when...***** happened that I wasn't alive for.
  • cloudberries, on 10/11/2008, -1/+18Pretty cool article. Although why websites like that can't use AJAX for their multi-page image slideshows is beyond me...
    • wavesmachine, on 10/11/2008, -1/+11...or just have the whole article on one page.
  • nunquam, on 10/11/2008, -0/+6Brought to you by the men of Sterling Cooper.
    • MCA2142, on 10/11/2008, -0/+1Exactly what I was thinking when I saw the first ad.


  • d0nkeym0nkey, on 10/11/2008, -0/+42Who am I to doubt 20000 physicians? *inhale, exhale*
    • sap959, on 10/11/2008, -2/+19just got an ounce in the mail?
    • phirestyle, on 10/12/2008, -0/+1Someone who doesn't settle for the okie doke? A critical thinker? A reasonable human being? Eh... never mind.
  • sap959, on 10/11/2008, -4/+6DUGG for dr batty
    • benitojuarez, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2one of my best friends growing up was named chris batty, his dad Dr. Batty was a neurosurgeon.
  • TonyTheTerrible, on 10/11/2008, -4/+3about the last picture;
    behind in times because you can just pay off all the right people with the money from your addictive cancer sticks.
    the only fight ive heard about in the last few years is the ban from most restaurants, and the idea that taxing the ***** out of it might lean sales.
  • Weed86, on 10/11/2008, -9/+105i have no idea, why the ***** is every ***** website using ***** slideshows!....Cant they ***** use 2 ***** pages at the most?
  • leladax, on 10/11/2008, -5/+4> The persistence of cigarette ads with health claims reflected a widespread, though low-level, public concern that
    > tobacco was, in fact, doing harm.

    well, if it smells bad.. it's probably bad.
    • secrity, on 10/11/2008, -2/+7Many people don't find cigarette smoke to smell bad, especially those who grew up smelling it.
    • bagelmaster, on 10/11/2008, -1/+3I think it smells good to be honest. /exsmoker
    • TheMachine1, on 10/11/2008, -1/+1Plus "good" and "bad" are highly subjective.

      Garlic smells bad to a lot of people but it has health benefits.
  • PorkTornado1102, on 10/11/2008, -2/+44***** pussies. Cant take a little cancer??? Typical Gen-Xers.

    - Marlboro Man
  • madfrogurt, on 10/11/2008, -8/+5Why hasn't a single country banned the use of tobacco yet? It seems with all the money spent on advertising people telling them not to smoke, along with the societal burden of increased cancer rates, there would be at least one "nanny state" initiative to ban it altogether. Is it just the amount of money that comes in from tobacco taxes?
    • ElectroStep, on 10/11/2008, -0/+4They'd get voted out pretty sharpish I'd imagine.
      • dynelol, on 10/11/2008, -1/+2He said "a single country". He didn't say America.
    • uninspireded, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2One country I know of has - Bhutan.
    • burrgrinder, on 10/11/2008, -2/+15Because it honestly isn't *that* bad for you. Sure, it's a bad addiction and expensive, but it usually takes 50+ years to kill you and it's not a real surprise when it happens. Other things that aren't labeled "bad" can kill you in far less time (steak, Twinkies, alcohol, cars, etc). Additionally, broadly banning tobacco is stupid. Pipes and cigars are orders of magnitudes safer for you than cigarettes since you're not inhaling tar and CO.

      But mostly, I don't want a government controlling another aspect of my life. I'm a big boy, I can think for myself, it's not like it's recent news that smoking things can be bad for me.

      Additionally, smoker's cancer is not a societal burden. Look at the tax money they bring in and look how it gets disbursed, they more than cover their own health costs. It generates enough that it provides health care coverage to nonsmokers.
    • happytrees, on 10/11/2008, -0/+3freedom baby, yeah.
    • irinotecan, on 10/11/2008, -0/+6Have you learned nothing from alcohol prohibition of the '20s (which lead to the rise of the Mafia), and the War on Drugs? Making it completely illegal isn't the solution; education, prohibition of false advertising e.g. the old fashioned "health claims" of those ads, and restrictions on where you can smoke so you don't force your smoke on people who don't want it (like me) is the answer.
    • maz2331, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2Because the attempt could take governments down, maybe?
    • senatorpjt, on 10/11/2008, -1/+2Because smoking is incredibly addictive, there will always be people - the lowest classes in particular - who don't really feel they have anything to lose by doing it, especially when it's the only thing in their life that is rewarding. This allows the government to raise a huge amount of money from this group, they'll do anything to keep smoking because it's literally the only thing in their life that makes it worth living. It probably sounds ridiculous to most people but I've been there.
  • oda1, on 10/11/2008, -0/+19LOL 'Asthma Cigarettes'
    • sap959, on 10/11/2008, -1/+4does exactly what it says on the packet?
    • protoopus, on 10/11/2008, -1/+1there was another brand, "asthmador" that had belladonna as an ingredient.

      three asthmador cigarettes boiled in a pint of water was the only hallucinogen (as opposed to psychedelic) i've ever had. not a good experience. the next day, my pupils were ENTIRELY dilated, so i suppose if you smoked it, it just might open your airway.
      • DotGet, on 10/11/2008, -0/+0dear lord, belladona in a cigarette? Were they trying to make their buyers temporarily insane?

        BTW belladonna isn't a hallucinogen, it's a dissociative. If you want a real hallucinogen, get some pure-grade LSD. Of course, of late there's been a cheaper/easier-to-make psychedelic research chemical being put on blotters and being sold as LSD. It's not any more harmful, but it's not fun either.
  • colourclassic, on 10/11/2008, -0/+25I swear, that kid in slide 5 is flipping me off.
  • Totz83, on 10/11/2008, -2/+8Are ya smokin yet?
  • Hincapie, on 10/11/2008, -8/+4how stupid were people 80 years ago?
    • Ibox, on 10/11/2008, -0/+13just as dumb as we are today, only difference is we now know better, but still smoke. :(
      • Tichondrius74, on 10/11/2008, -1/+1But the difference is that everyone smoked back then and much fewer smoke now.
  • TheBaronRides, on 10/11/2008, -6/+6What a terrible social evil. Why people are allowed to smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol is beyond me. And now I hear kids are smoking this marihuana? Unbelievable. Clearly our priorities are not in order.
    • sadhesati, on 10/11/2008, -3/+9If I want to smoke until I get cancer and drink until my liver is pickled, that is my choice. No one should have the right to tell me that I can't.
    • bagelmaster, on 10/11/2008, -0/+5That needed a huge /s
    • HunterSeeker42, on 10/12/2008, -0/+0Marihuana? Those damn kids have crossed the line
  • jhnsnp, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2Damn you Don Draper!
  • Myonosken, on 10/11/2008, -0/+15"For more pure pleasure, have a camel!"

    This is what I keep trying to tell the local zoo.
    • Dejacque, on 10/11/2008, -6/+0That's what she said.
    • PopcornDave, on 10/11/2008, -0/+1Don't forget the advert where the fellow would "walk a mile for a camel" as well.
  • Farmer77, on 10/11/2008, -0/+9Asbestos was in cigarettes? WTF?
    • cpsutcliffe, on 10/11/2008, -1/+18Why would that suprise you? There's STILL benzene, arsenic, cadmium, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, ammonia and hydrogen cyanide in the smoke...?
      • Aturaten, on 10/11/2008, -1/+2Now, I'm curious. Are these additives or a natural part of burning tobacco?
      • cpsutcliffe, on 10/11/2008, -1/+17@Aturaten

        Tobacco companies add things like sugar, chocolate and vanilla to make smoking less irritable, this varies between brands, and when burned sugar creates formaldehyde. They include additives like ammonia to increase the addictive power of nicotine. And the plants themselves absorb chemicals like cadmium and arsenic from the soil.

        So, tobacco companies aren't intentionally trying to poison us, but they are doing everything they can to make the irritation and discomfort of inhaling deadly carcinogenic toxins as pleasant and addictive as they possibly can.

        It's like murdering you, but giving you morphine for the pain.
      • dhughes, on 10/11/2008, -0/+5 Don't forget polonium-210 and lead-210, mmmm gamma rays are so warm.
    • sap959, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2mmmm painnnn
    • burrgrinder, on 10/11/2008, -1/+3What type of asbestos was it?
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysotile
      http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-55520776.html

      White asbestos poses no major health concern and is the only type of asbestos in production today. If that was what was added to cigarettes, it's not a big deal (additionally, no asbestos burns or particulates at cigarette temperatures, so as long as you're not snorting up the filter, you're probably fine).
      • cruzlee, on 10/11/2008, -0/+1No snorting of filters? You sir, are a pleasure killer.
  • ryanonfire, on 10/11/2008, -1/+3Still works today http://www.bat-science.com/
  • Stevethegreat, on 10/11/2008, -3/+14No 12: Ban on smoking? Let the people smoke and feel the consequences, it has nothing to do with the federal government. You would actually see that it is not the regulation that caused smoking to start becoming out of fashion, but its actual effects and the publication of studies showing that smoking correlates with cancer and heart problems. It's the pop culture itself that weakened the fad, NOT the governments. It's actually demeaning for people (assumingly non-smokers) to call for government to regulate other people's habit with which they happen not to agree.

    If you truly are a liberal (lover of freedom) don't call for regulations for whatever you don't agree with, don't be a hypocrite. The meaning of liberty is also the freedom to do wrong, safety nets have nothing to do with liberty, they're authoritative in essence...
    • johanrocks, on 10/11/2008, -0/+1The problem with smoking is that the consequences stretch beyond those smoking. You say that it's demeaning for non-smokers to call for the government to regulate other people's habits with which they do not agree, but second hand smoke is not pleasant. If I don't want to go around inhaling other people's smoke, then why should it be legal? Their decision is affecting me.
      • GeyserShitdick, on 10/11/2008, -1/+1Any decision that anyone makes effects everyone else. Deal with it.
  • superflydugg, on 10/11/2008, -0/+1so i shouldn't trust corporations? gwahh?!?!
    • PopcornDave, on 10/11/2008, -0/+1Nor the government corporation either.
  • reddikilowatt, on 10/11/2008, -1/+11Please quit smoking. It isn't easy, but it isn't hard either. I quit after smoking for 10 years, and I have about as much willpower as a sailor on shoreleave.
    • specialK16, on 10/11/2008, -0/+5Please tell me how. Began 3 years ago, smoking maybe one or two cigs a day. Now, maybe from the stress from work and school and having almost half a pack a day, and I'm only 19.

      I've seen the videos and the pictures of smoke-related diseases and they are not ***** pretty at all.... I really don't want that to happen and I really don't want to jeopardize my future. I just found very difficult to stop it now.
      • radsprack, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2My mom quit cold turkey after at least 30 ***** years of smoking. I think she did it for me because I was complaining about how bad it was, but still. My grandmother has tried to get my grandfather to quit for years now and she's paid for so many different "quit-smoking" products it's not even funny, but he's still at it after all this. I suppose it depends on how committed you are to quitting and how determined you'll be down the line when you get to the real burning cravings for a cig. It really depends on you how you quit. I would suggest trying cold turkey at first. You're young, you can survive whatever withdrawal symptoms you come across. If that doesn't work then try the gum try the patches to ween your way off them, and DON'T be afraid to ask for help at any time through this. You'd be surprised how much moral support can help. If you get a craving just do something else to take your mind off of it. Just as long as it is not an unhealthy addiction. Hope that helps and good luck.
      • senatorpjt, on 10/11/2008, -0/+1I started dipping. I suppose that doesn't really count as "quitting", but I can a) do it at work without having to go take a 5 minute break every half-hour, b) doesn't make me smell. I've even gotten good enough at it that I don't have to spit, I'm a grad student and I've given talks in front of rooms full of professors and nobody even knew I was doing it, but it certainly is nice to be able to get a constant stream of nicotine while you're in a stressful situation like that. Throw a couple Klonopin in there and it's about as stressful as watching TV.
      • reddikilowatt, on 10/12/2008, -0/+1Pick your quit date. Make sure it is far enough out to prepare for it (at least a month, maybe longer).

        1) track your smoking for a week. Keep a notebook and a watch, note the times you smoke. Plot out a distribution.
        2) Using your gathered data you will see a pattern emerge. You want to disrupt your pattern. Take the number you smoke/day and divide by how many hours you are awake. Run a countdown timer and only smoke when the timer runs out. Make sure you stick to the timer! If you are in a meeting or class, excuse yourself and go smoke (it helps to let your boss/teachers know ahead of time, and they should understand). Do this for 1 week. You are trying to break patterns and dissociate your habit with your addiction.
        3) By the third week, begin to reduce your smoking by one or two cigarettes per day (try 2/day at first, and when you get down to below 6 or 7, move to 1). Keep spacing out the times you smoke using the same timer method. Try to smoke the same way you always do (don't take real deep drags and hold it like pot). This is the hardest time, but not impossible.
        4) On your quit date, go to Walmart and buy nicotine patches, the strongest ones you can get. By this time, your body is getting used to a reduced amount of nicotine and you are about to hit it with a pack a day again -and it is a constant delivery, so it always feels like you just smoked. Patches are the same price as a week's worth of cigarettes, so there isn't much of an economic hit either. Follow the instructions for the patch. I used the 3 stage ones.

        5) Enjoy your smoke free life. It is best to avoid smokers and alcohol for a few months, if possible. It takes 3 months after you get off the patch to call yourself a non-smoker. Side effects will include weight gain, smug sense of superiority over everyone else and lots of extra money. Weight gain is easy enough to get over by intense aerobic exercise, feelings of superiority, well, just don't be an ***** and remember that you can be right back there with one cigarette (at least in the first 3 months. at some point you'll get sick just thinking about them), extra money can be taken care of with a girlfriend or gadget obsession.
      • reddikilowatt, on 10/12/2008, -0/+1In stage 2 and 3, you want to change your smoking location. If you smoke in the car, pull over and smoke outside of the car. Outlaw smoking in your house (if at a friend's house, go outside even if they say it's OK to smoke inside). Make it an inconvenience to smoke.

        Also...
        It may seem like it takes a long time to quit, but remember that you've been smoking for 3 years now. And if you don't succeed, try it again. Remember what the withdraw feels like so when you're ready, you have some idea what to expect.

        And this is what worked for me. You may think this way is terrible and cold turkey works better. Whatever works for you is the best way. You can do it. Don't be a slave to evil corporations who's only goal is to take all of your money!
    • lisitpc, on 10/11/2008, -0/+0Read Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking. Don't just read it, STUDY it.

  • Ashenfield, on 10/11/2008, -0/+5Wow...Number 6 is awesome..
    Changes "Gotta cut Down" to "Gonna smoke up!"
    From the looks of the woman shes smoking crack not cigs...:)
    • m1ss1ontomars, on 10/11/2008, -0/+1Those lines remind me of Never Gonna Give You Up.
  • s0nicfreak, on 10/11/2008, -4/+5And as dangerous as cigarettes are - for smokers and people around them - they are still legal, while much less dangerous things to smoke are illegal.
    • PopcornDave, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2Yes because it's a bit harder to grow a tobacco field in your basement. It's all about the tax revenue that they're losing on the home growers.
  • eelwrolyat, on 10/11/2008, -0/+3Ha, number 2 made me think of, "I'm Dr. Steve Brule...for your health."
    • EmperorAwesome, on 10/11/2008, -0/+1Sweet berry wine!
    • pagancollective, on 10/11/2008, -0/+1Fashion victim or fashion slave? You make the call!
  • cjshamrock, on 10/11/2008, -0/+1Things really haven't changed a whole lot
  • swik, on 10/11/2008, -2/+3I'm all for a stupid tax
  • NarcisseDeD, on 10/11/2008, -0/+6Is this Philip Morris smiley lift boy in slide 5 giving me the finger ...?

    That would be a great subliminal message, "Philip Morris ***** you with a big smile !"
  • Spankus, on 10/11/2008, -2/+7Exercise your right to smoke!
    http://www.filthyrichmond.com/2008/06/exercise-you ...
    • sensor, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2What an *****.
    • PoSSeSSeDCoW, on 10/11/2008, -0/+1That joke site is fairly amusing, but the funniest part is the "last name" of the person writing it. Testes-Harder.
    • senatorpjt, on 10/11/2008, -0/+1The odor argument is the most ridiculous thing I hear out of non-smokers. As though it's the most offensive odor on the planet. If you want to make it illegal for anyone to smell, that's fine, but it's really people trying to impose their morals on others, the odor is just an excuse.

      If they want to make it illegal to smell in public, I'm all for that.
    • ireland88, on 10/11/2008, -0/+1***** great.
  • eliot2000, on 10/11/2008, -0/+4They use an "Asthma cigarettes" ad. Those weren't just tobacco, they also consisted of about half datura, or jimson weed. One of my grandparents smoked them for her asthma when she was young.
    • BotchaMcCoola, on 10/11/2008, -0/+1My father had asthma and was told by a doctor to smoke an occasional cigarette . That was around the late 1930s.
  • kayamm, on 10/11/2008, -0/+1Where can I get this images in full resolution?
  • BotchaMcCoola, on 10/11/2008, -1/+4The tobacco is fine but I have never smelled any burning paper I would want to inhale.
  • atact88, on 10/11/2008, -0/+4I wonder what other practices doctors promote now that will be ridiculed in 50 years.
  • pnkmtlflyd, on 10/11/2008, -1/+913 pages? blow me
  • TheObviousChild, on 10/11/2008, -0/+17"I don't know what's in 'em, but I can't stop smokin' 'em!"

    Louis Armstrong - Vintage Larami Cig ad
  • atact88, on 10/11/2008, -4/+5Yup, we can feel good though, knowing that doctors now promote marijuana instead to cure every disease on earth, according to Diggtards
    • sadhesati, on 10/11/2008, -0/+3I don't recall anyone being dumb enough to say marijuana cures anything. It is very effective in helping cancer patients with nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy, and it works quite well as an appetite stimulant. And yes, some doctors do promote it, albeit not in smoked form as that carries health risks in itself. It's a pill called Marinol. Look it up.
  • prim3, on 10/11/2008, -2/+8hey smoking HAS beneficial effects on your body!

    "Evidence suggests that non-smokers are up to twice as likely as smokers to develop Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's disease."
    i just cant live with this risk ...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoking#Healt ...
    • sadhesati, on 10/11/2008, -0/+1Well, I'll get my L-DOPA ready
    • unclebuck, on 10/11/2008, -1/+3Gee that's funny. My grandma smoked 2 packs a day for like 50 years, and she died of Alzheimer's. Maybe she should have switched brands. I heard Newports are alive with pleasure.
      • burrgrinder, on 10/11/2008, -1/+2A published study of a couple hundred people with peer review and another study corroborating their results....or a guy on the internet talking about his grandma (not to say it didn't happen, but you're not effectively refuting anything).

        I'll choose scientific evidence, tyvm.
      • unclebuck, on 10/11/2008, -2/+1@burrgrinder: that's fine. Just keep sucking down those smokes. Oh and be sure to quote all those peer-reviewed studies to your doctor when you're diagnosed with cancer or emphysema. Seriously, what are you, like 16?
    • tian2992, on 10/11/2008, -1/+7It is probably because they die before they get Alzheimer's
  • flashback99, on 10/11/2008, -5/+3What nobody tells you is that if you stop smoking for a few days, your lungs go back to normal after a few weeks.
    • fuzzy889, on 10/11/2008, -1/+3That's amazing. So all I need to do is quit for a few days, then start smoking again and my lungs will be a-ok?
    • flashback99, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2after a few weeks.
    • theskillwithin, on 10/11/2008, -1/+1im sorry is that a joke?
    • m1ss1ontomars, on 10/11/2008, -0/+2Yeah, seriously dude, you're not making any sense.

      Although it is true that after a few months or weeks of not smoking, your lungs do get better.
    • flashback99, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1sorry, for mj its days, for tobacco it's weeks, even months depending on how heavily you smoke.
  • yourbrokenoven, on 10/11/2008, -4/+1The way I see it, if we want to truly help people we'll ban outright, or phase out cigarettes altogether. Telling you that you just can't smoke them in certain areas does absolutely nothing to inhibit smokers. Even severely ill patients complain that they want to get outside to smoke. The fact that we're still selling the things tells me that, no, we don't really care about your health. We just want to make more money off you, that's all.

    Consequently, I think the anti smoking ads are wasting money. You really want to make a difference, do like in The 5th element where you wean off and your filter gets bigger and your nicotine gets smaller incrementally with each cigarette.

    Or just leave people alone. A healthy politician wastes more taxpayer money in his lifetime than probably ten smokers can.
    • dddavid, on 10/11/2008, -0/+3Perhaps in addition to caring for their health we also care about their freedom. We show that we care about their health by discouraging smoking. We show that we care about their freedom by allowing them to make their own decisions.
  • unclebuck, on 10/11/2008, -1/+7I love how the Kent cigarettes had asbestos filters. Damn I'm glad I quit smoking.
  • macunderdog, on 10/11/2008, -0/+3What's scary is that we don't know what ads of today will be outrageous tomorrow.
    If they thought smoking was alright in those days, I wonder what products we use today might be proven unhealthy later.
  • Cole2026, on 10/11/2008, -0/+1My father always quotes a line from a major cigarette company that was big when he was a child:
    They taste good and they're good for you.

    Things have changed, haven't they?
  • colasrtney, on 10/11/2008, -1/+4"at a time when cigarettes were associated with dandies and the fairer sex."

    It's time to bring back Dandy: "You got pwned so hard you ***** dandy!"

  • criaturaw, on 10/11/2008, -2/+2dugg for ad campaign in Brazil, see more here:
    http://www.dormiu.com.br/imagens/novas-imagens-par ...
  • criaturaw, on 10/11/2008, -4/+1dugg for ad campaign in Brazil, see the 2008 ad's here:
    http://www.dormiu.com.br/imagens/novas-imagens-par ...

    Extreme Gore!
    • cryptomystic, on 10/11/2008, -0/+1WTF? The Brazilians need to show a little bit more restraint in their ads, I nearly vomited.

      terrible ad campaign.
  • mrtastycakes, on 10/11/2008, -1/+1I will claim that tobacco is good for you until the day I die of lung cancer.
  • styleomatic, on 10/11/2008, -1/+1now i know where the government and corporate media got their inspiration.
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