We have all seen those terrible advertisements about smoking (for example the daily mail picture seen here) on T.V, YouTube, papers and magazines. They always seem to make smoking sound like an instant death sentence. Youth culture and Viral videos have begun to revolt against these life endangering ads. For example if you follow the links you'll see a video on 'Nico breeze' and a collegehumor.com video about the sacrifices a man has had to make due to his addiction.
These advertisements seem to hint that people are becoming desensitized towards the 'horrors' of smoking being pushed in their face. I feel that this attempt of scaring people has actually played into the idea of smoking being rebellious and that these campaigns should be rethought.
Links!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFR07vsnWjA - College Humour Ad.
http://www.spike.com/video/hilarious-anti/2906617 - Nico Breeze Ad.
Watch these videos, tell me what you think.
