Doesnt Smoke Adds !

Tusky

hey cool-cats
have any of seen these "doesnt smoke "adds ? dont know if anyone has posted about them before but they are just sooooo coool ! I mean like yea !

"Does style , Does dare , ( WAIT FOR IT !!!!! ) DOESNT SMOKE !!!! "

whoever came up with these adds deserves a BIG CLAP! as they appeal to cool youngsters, hip cats , cool daddys AND tough dudes and make us realise you CAN BE COOL WITHOUT SMOKING !!!

Id say the adds themselfs have managed to stop 1000's of teens around the country stop smoking
!!??!?! yay for being young AND COOL !

Creamy Goodness

the funniest one is the one where the guy with the gigantic shoes is coming down the escalator i want a pair of them

Tha Gopher

I am fairly sure these ads were made by the EU and are shown all over Europe.For whatever reason European kids seem to be different to Irish and British young uns.They dress like it is 1981 and dont seem to partake in as much drinking or drug taking as we do.I remember seeing somewhere that for all its liberal drug,sex and pornography laws Holland has some of the lowest rates of teen pregnancy and drug abuse in Europe!In Europe if the goverment goes easy on something the population seem able to use their right responsibly.

I just did a google search.Only 20% of Dutch secondary schoolkids have done hash.In the UK it is something like 40%.I would say it is even higher here.This is despite the fact hash is even more easily available than in Holland.Ecstasy use runs at 2%.Only 1 in 40 kids aged 10-12 had smoked 4 weeks before the survey.I know people who have been smoking on a daily basis since they were 8 years old.

European kids are just better behaved than us savages on these two isles.So they wouldnt see anything remotely stupid looking about these ads anyway.

But yes in a nutshell the ads are a bit stupid.I dont think it is really going to dissuade any smokers.Maybe in Europe,but in Ireland we prefer to laugh at this kind of thing.We just have better taste methinks.

Mossy Monk

the first time i saw one of these ads i thought "who the **** is going to listen to that?". and i was right. the amount of young uns i see puffing on a daily basis doesn't seem to have shrinked at all. they either don't want to be cool or they don't watch tv

Makaveli

Maybe they pawned the tv to buy more cigarettes.

They are really annoying ads. Fortunatley they only seem to be on MTV and I never watch that anymore.

DapperGent

MTV's fascinating new "no-music" policy has me skipping it too.

I've only seen one of the adds, where some cute chick goes and gets a tattoo, but no! It was only fake (sorry should've had spolier tags).

So she didn't even get the tattoo the boring tart. What she needs is a nicotine addiction to make her more glamorous.

de5p0i1er

Originally posted by DapperGent
MTV's fascinating new "no-music" policy has me skipping it too.

I've only seen one of the adds, where some cute chick goes and gets a tattoo, but no! It was only fake (sorry should've had spolier tags).

So she didn't even get the tattoo the boring tart. What she needs is a nicotine addiction to make her more glamorous.

Were all giving up on MTV bit by bit.

As for the boring tart leave her with her fake tattoo and let her resort to drugs in her own time when she realises what a dull cow she is.

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by de5p0i1er
As for the boring tart leave her with her fake tattoo and let her resort to drugs in her own time when she realises what a dull cow she is.

that particular ad is really stupid. good people should never be near a tattoo parlour. what would the decent upstanding leaders of our society think :rolleyes:

it's not only MTV showing them. i saw 2 of the ads on an Irish channel. can't remember which one

Mac daddy

Those ads are a wast of time and money they don't work were i live there are young lads and young ones smoking at the age 9!
They don't seem to take notice of the ads :rolleyes:

Spacedog

I thought the No Smoking campaign sponsoring the B&H snooker was a great idea! but those Nico ads just made me want to smoke more! Nico was the coolest ever! He had all those hot models, had that whole evil tyrant thing going on, the only thing was the gammy teeth, but nothing a bit of colgate couldn't fix, Nico embodied the coolness of smoking! YEAH!

Elmo

I thought the nico adds were quite smart, but I don't smoke so.

but the new add with everyone in the pub having a laugh, I want to start smoking.

Mossy Monk

remember when those Nico ads started. i thought it was an ad for some perfume maker

BKtje

That was kidna the idea Mossy Monk

GoneShootin

what got to me with those Nico ads was the disturblingy high pants the man was wearing.

Hi, im NICO, and I have no waist.....

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Hi, I'm nico and I once auditioned for the part of Joey in friends..

therannu

The government is doing much better with targetting people who smoke already (i.e. smoking ban in pubs), rather than trying to stop people starting smoking in the first place. Smoking is just not cool anymore - every time I light up, my supposed friends start coughing and complaining that their new handbags are going to be all smelly. And I notice that teenagers aren't smoking as much as they used to. The kids just aren't starting, so the anti-smoking campaign must be doing something right somewhere. It's probably this so-called "scientific research".

BKtje

I've noticed that if a friend of mine lights up in a pub or confined space the non smokers in the group generally make a comment. (as long as they out number the smokers )

This didnt used to happen. (tho i cant say i have years of experience going to pubs seeing as im only 20 but its what i noticed since we started)

Imposter

I think anti-smoking adds are a complete waste of time. If a possible smoker sees these things he/she thinks about smoking. If they don't see them chances are they're not thinking about smoking.

As for Europe I reckon just as many people smoke but maybe not as much as Irish people due to them not spending quite as much time in a pub. That said from my experience of pubs in Europe (austria in particular), are just as smoky as irish pubs, but it's generally possible to breathe in them due to them not being as packed.

Another thing about the adds are that a european wide audience means lots of different views/tolerances to fashion and/or what is cool and what isn't. Irish teens will in the most part not find people wearing plain clothes (no logos) cool and the opposite is generally true of most europeans.

Corega

The only effective anti-smoking ad I've seen was the one where they disect the smokers brain an reveal a lovely blood clot....bliss.