Maine: Next round of youth cigarette ads is unveiled (Get Ready!)

boston.com ^ | 6-15-04

[SheLion]

PORTLAND, Maine -- The latest batch of anti-tobacco television advertisements created by Maine students features a guy with yellow teeth and a giant cigarette butt chasing children around.

The Department of Human Services had so much success with the original ads three years ago that Maine youths were tapped again for public service announcements that began airing Monday.

[SheLion]

Isn't it 'wonderful' how the Partnership for a Tobacco Free Maine is using the tax money spent by adults who buy cigarettes in Maine?  Now we have to undergo more childish, asinine TV ads when we are trying to watch a program.

Pity they can't use the tax money for prescription drug care and to help sick kids.  Very sad indeed.  I believe the cigarette tax money Mainers shell out should be going toward health care, and not given to TEENS to dream up shoddy commercials that make me think they are on 'ecstasy' when they create them.

That's right! Every time you buy a pack or a carton, that tax money is used to make these commercials.  The FEDS aren't paying for them, and Maine Government isn't paying for them, but the SMOKERS!

I've smoked all of my adult life, and my teeth sure aren't yellow.  I think a little personal hygiene should be taught, don't you?

I wish Maine smokers had a better say in how their tax money is being spent.  I know several health programs this money could better support.

[SheLion]

[Glenn]

features a guy with yellow teeth and a giant cigarette butt chasing children around.

Demonizing smokers and terrifying children. What a great display of fantasy at taxpayer's expense.

[SheLion]

Demonizing smokers and terrifying children. What a great display of fantasy at taxpayer's expense.

You hit the nail right on the head, Glenn!

If the Maine smokers would only wake up to the fact that they are paying for this wasted air time! Parents should be teaching teens not to smoke! Not the adult taxpayers.

I don't know who Human Resources is trying to trick, but it sure isn't the majority of us!

[ICX]

I've been dipping for 2 1/2 years, and I take immaculate care of my mouth as a result. Whenever I see these moronic ad campaigns, I can't help but think of the Rob Reiner South Park...

Cartman: "Wow, Mr. Reiner. It's like smoking gives a lot of people just a little bit of pleasure, and you get to take that away from them. You're my idol."

[thoughtomator]

The logical extension of the War on Drugs. Should anyone really be surprised?

Have you seen the "glassicle pops" advertisement? Next thing you know they'll be comparing smoking to tossing Jews into ovens.

[SheLion]

I've been dipping for 2 1/2 years, and I take immaculate care of my mouth as a result. Whenever I see these moronic ad campaigns, I can't help but think of the Rob Reiner South Park...

Exactly. They sure like to hound about how smokers stink. I, personally, have never experienced this.

All my smoking friends, me included, have super hygiene. I think keeping a clean mouth and body is just part of being human.

Smokers who "stink" just don't take care of themselves, and I have never run across anyone that nasty!

(Well, maybe one or two when I was dating. LOL!

[SheLion]

Have you seen the "glassicle pops" advertisement? Next thing you know they'll be comparing smoking to tossing Jews into ovens.

I'm sure the anti's have thought about it.

They are already trying to tie us in with terrorists!

[July 4th]

Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco

[Kleon]

All my smoking friends, me included, have super hygiene. I think keeping a clean mouth and body is just part of being human.

Good, I'm sure you don't smell like an ashtray, but you should be more concerned about those crusty black lungs of yours. I'm not preaching, I just think it's strange you put your outward appearence over your overall health.

[SheLion]

Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco

Hehe!!

[SheLion]

Good, I'm sure you don't smell like an ashtray, but you should be more concerned about those crusty black lungs of yours. I'm not preaching, I just think it's strange you put your outward appearence over your overall health.

Gosh! Don't worry about it. It's my personal choice and I am an adult.

At least I am not burning out my liver from drinking! You?

[Smokin' Joe]

The huge tobacco settlement payments were to allegedly offset the extra state-paid medical expenses of smokers. While smokers pay extra for car insurance (not to mention life and health insurance), the money robbed from the nicotine underclass is squandered on crap like this.

This won't stop anyone from smoking, it just lets the anti-smoking Nazis feel more smug.

If you want your 15 year-old to do something, forbit it. Rebellion is part of the age.

[thoughtomator]

They are already trying to tie us in with terrorists!

I don't see what there is to stop them. They've already inverted the effects of prohibition to claim that users support terror, when the clear facts show that prohibition itself is the biggest aid to terror funding. It's like blaming a drunk in a speakeasy for Al Capone's thugs.

[steplock]

I smoked - no longer - it isn't your concern.

[Lx]

I hate what they're doing to smokers. If it was so bad, they should ban them but we can't affect the revenue stream now can we?

Having said that, I get less angry at this demonizing every time I see a smoker throw a cigarette out a window, lit or not.

[The Mayor]

Bump

I'll be back

[SheLion]

This won't stop anyone from smoking, it just lets the anti-smoking Nazis feel more smug.

Exactly!  My parents both told me if I ever started smoking, they would kill me.  It was my girlfriends that got me on a weak moment when I was 16.  I never would have started smoking if it wasn't for my girl friends.  They all smoked, and I wanted to fit in.  It wasn't the Joe Camel Ads or billboards or even seeing smoking in movies and TV.  It was peer pressure.  My parents taught me right from wrong, but the minute I walked out of the house, I did it "my way."

If you want your 15 year-old to do something, forbit it. Rebellion is part of the age.

Right again!

[CSM]

Thanks for your concern mommy!

[SheLion]

Having said that, I get less angry at this demonizing every time I see a smoker throw a cigarette out a window, lit or not.

It's a form of rebellion. I have never seen the likes of being able to buy a legal commodity yet being treated like a criminal for doing so.