Best Creative Anti-Smoking Ad Campaigns

Awesome work, artist has put his efforts at right motive, salute to his work.

Here is something to think about:

Smoking they say is more addictive than heroin, why is that, they add chemicals to cigarettes to make them more addictive. So now you have one smoke and chances are you will smoke for years. Yet they want everyone to quit smoking. Now think about the taxes, cigarettes are taxed heavily, which means the more people smoke the more money the government gets, hence the chemicals to make cigarettes more addictive. Then there are the stop smoking aids, which cost more than buying cigarettes. If they really wanted people to stop smoking, cigarettes would be illegal, and they would stop making them, never going to happen. How about cigarettes being made from tobacco, and not adding in any chemicals. Bottom line is money, its always about the money.

Just my 2 cents

hey post at number 2, f*ck you! “hey fatty”? real mature, im sure there are heavier people who would agree with you on the matter dont be such an ass.

@lori

f*ck you. You obviously have no idea what gaff smokers get. I’m overweight and I smoke occasionally, my diet is far more of a hazard to my health, even my doctor says so. However, people not only don’t say anything about my diet, they find ways to excuse why I’m overweight.

As for smoking I get railed about it all the time, even though I smoke maybe a pack a month. You don’t have any clue how much sh*t we get from b*tches like you. Even those of us who only smoke outside, away from any nonsmokers. I get called out for the way I smell, even when I do my best to change my shirt, wash my hands, chew a stick of gum. No one gets shit like us. You all can f*ck off, I smoke less cigs than most americans eat fastfood. I know its bad for me, and you know thats bad for you, why don’t you just mind your own damn fucking business. Assholes.

All this talking about not smoking makes me want a cheeseburger washed down with a Red Bull.

There are some pretty strong opinion on here.

I can see both sides to this argument, and i do think that the ad campaigns are designed to scare people. As they always say prevention is better than cure. To a non-smoker those ads look very off putting. However to a smoker, i can imagine they would seem quite guilt provoking.

There may be no excuse for people that smoke, however the fact is, they do. Lets not get caught up on why they shouldn’t, they have already been let down, and they are doing it. The job is to use clever ads like these to put the next generation off doing the same.

I watched a very interesting programme the other day about the tobacco industry and the people who work in it. You can’t just cut or ban cigarettes, that means unemployment, poverty etc for other nations. This is a global issue and will take decades to deal with, the habit is not just the smokers, its the habit of advertising, economy tradition and culture. If we were all singing from the same page it would be wonderful, however free choice and a multi cultural planet speaks differently.

Smokers aren’t demons, but they sure are damn idiots. And I shouldn’t have to worry about inhaling deadly fumes when I’m just walking on the street, just because some idiot chooses to harm themselves.

wow. seriously, when did it become okay to completely bash strangers for their own personal choices? This is a really messed up forum… let each other be… deal with your own life, and your own choices. I wonder how you all feel you have the time or the right to say shit like this about other people. We are all just trying to get by.

GENIAL!

agree with Shockeye!

What’s lovely about this has NOTHING to do on the morality/health issues regarding smoking, but on the wonders of advertising. Imagine you’ve just threw out your last pack, say, about three hours ago. You’re ready to quit this filthy, money grubbing habit-which you are perfectly aware of-and get in your vehicle. There are signs with cigarettes, bus sides with the word “smoke”. Even if there’s a “don’t” before it. You won’t notice. You walk into your gym. There’s a huge cigarette just swirling away in the corner. Taunting you. Everywhere you go, subliminal and advert messages reminding you. Telling you. FUCK BIG TOBACCO! But wait… Big tobacco didn’t put a single of these things up. Hahaha, what a bitch.
If I were Big Tobacco, I’d love these companies/agencies/organizations like family.

My mom is a smoker, and I really wish she’d quit. She smokes indoors and it always smells like the house is burning down whenever anybody walks in the house, and it’s really embaressing. Also all of our walls are a yellow-white from it. My clothes all smell like smoke and I’ve gotten stopped by friends asking if I smoke (not that it’s their business, but that’s really annoying!) She always smokes near me and it makes my eyes water and makes me cough. Also when we are on a road trip she always has the window open to flick her cig and her ashes get on me and my sister as they fly back. Smoking might be fine for the smokers, but it’s annoying for people around them!

all of you haters can fuck of and die!
I don’t tell any1 how to lead their life
don’t tell me how to lead mine

loads of shit I don’t like
but you don’t see me going around harassing other people about it.

mind your own fucking business!

I was a smoker for over 30 years, I quit because I was getting short of breath. The addiction to smoking is more mental then physical.
You need a smoke when
On the phone
Driving
Talking to someone
Drinking
Reward, like after completing a job your proud of.
After a meal
The physical addiction part is over in about three days. I found myself reaching for a smoke 6 months after quitting mainly while driving or out drinking. I don’t know there are a lot of 70 and 80 year old’s around today and most of them smoked or were around people who did. I think hairspray is just as dangerous when inhaled. Now that I’m in my golden years I find myself asking why I wanted to get here,more things shut down, quit and stop working everyday that was not caused by smoking,so even you nonsmokers are not going to be happy with old age, It’s very much overrated.

I like these ads. Smoking is awful.. I don’t understand the point of it at all. It makes people smell awful, they all have this weird stench that smells like old shoes.

Also, I developed asthma when I was a kid because my mom chain smoked. And now, my mom had a stroke at 52 caused from smoking her whole life, and is bed ridden and still fucking smoking.

So yeah, if you’re going to make me miserable from smoking and forcing me to breathe that shit (almost all my friends smoke, so I’m constantly exposed), then I will happily bitch about it to you every chance I get. It’s the same difference between bitching at someone that takes heroin.

@Zil

You’re ridiculous to compare smoking to cars and machinery. They are beyond functional and serve so many uses beyond what you can even fathom. Smoking serves no purpose except to fuel an addiction. You can’t begin to compare the two.

Sure it’s a personal choice but even if you personally go out of your way to make sure you don’t smoke in other people’s presence, how does any passerby know that? You might as well be part of the majority that smokes without regard for whoever is around them, and that is threatening people’s health. Don’t be offended when you willingly CHOSE to be a part of that group.

Am I the only one who feels like the image of the children with bags over their heads is too much?

There’s a difference between trying to prove a point and going too far, and that one just crossed the line. I feel like the horrifying feeling you get from looking at it overblows any sort of ‘I should stop smoking’ reaction you should be getting.

Maybe I’m the only one who feels this way. I feel like anti-anything ads always tend to go too far, and start turning what are mostly normal people into the Enemy. Showing an image like that is like saying ‘look at those child killers’

TL;DR Too extreme

I still feel like they lose all the effect they were going for. Instead of feeling disgusted with themselves, they feel disgusted with the person who made it. It just loses the point when they get too extreme. And there is a point where you lose effectiveness.

Also, you might wanna be careful, you might fall off that high horse you’ve climbed onto.

(P.S. I’m not a smoker)

I like the one with burned finger. I feel like having a smoke right now, but it might work for me one day!!!

wow, what a great collection. Thanks for sharing! stumbled….

Wow! Some pretty in your face messages there thats for sure. However none the less creative.

Smoking is a choice I was raised in a family that smoked and I am now the only person in my family that doesn’t smoke if u argue that it’s unhealthy to smoke u r right but it’s there choice and if they get cancer or heart disease it’s from their choice It doesn’t matter if u think it’s wrong but it’s America!! People have the right to choose what they want to do religion does not matter for those of u who called smokers demons I’m pretty sure my family ain’t demons some smokers r the nicest people u could ever meet