Propaganda. Hatred. Lies. It's all for the greater good after all. Their rationale seems to be "Hey, the tobacco companies lied for years, if we're gonna take em down we have to fight fire with fire and lie right back."
Posted on 03/03/2008 9:39:21 AM PST by Eric Blair 2084
Three sick children portrayed in City Hall's newest anti-cigarette ad may not be victims of tobacco smoke after all.
The footage of the children came from photo-agency archives, the Health Department said in a statement.
"The children pictured in this ad are real patients, suffering from conditions that have been clearly associated with exposure to secondhand smoke," the statement said.
"The children are not presented as individual victims of environmental tobacco smoke. We do not know their individual medical histories."
Paula Alex, CEO of the Advertising Educational Foundation, said, "That is not necessarily truthful advertising."
Jan Wicks, a University of Arkansas expert in advertising ethics, added, "I would have tried to find children who actually did have illnesses due to secondhand smoke."
The ad - the latest in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's two-year anti-smoking campaign - hit the air last week.
It shows a little girl having her ear checked, a boy wearing an oxygen mask, and another boy whose lungs are being ventilated.
"When you smoke around kids, you expose them to thousands of chemicals that trigger severe health problems like painful ear infections, crippling asthma, deadly pneumonia," says the voiceover.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Propaganda. Hatred. Lies. It's all for the greater good after all. Their rationale seems to be "Hey, the tobacco companies lied for years, if we're gonna take em down we have to fight fire with fire and lie right back."
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We the People Sheeple of the United States Nanny State, in Order to form a more perfect Union Socialist Utopia, establish Justice Socially engineer a country of non smoking, physically fit, tea totallers, insure domestic Tranquility Smoking bans in bars, limits on unhealthy food and social drinking, provide for the common defense Universal Healthcare, promote the general Welfare health of the population whether they like it or not, in order to save above mentioned Universal Healthcare entitlement program from bankruptcy, and secure the Blessings of Liberty Dependency to ourselves progressive liberals and our Posterity Hitler Youth who we brainwash through public school education, do ordain decree and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Nanny State of Liberals.
Not to add to the whole Nazi dystopia experience, but its “teetotalers” not “tea-totallers” :0)
“I would have tried to find children who actually did have illnesses due to secondhand smoke.”
That might have been impossible. That’s not to say that someone with a respiratory problem might not be worsened by second hand smoke, but it’s very unlikely that it was caused by it...
thanks, just fixed it.
I was told this by an anti-smoking advocate when I asked them what lengths they would go to in order to insure that they eradicated the smoking of tobacco.
Where were all these asthmatics 25 years ago?
Never in America’s history have there been so few smokers, smoking in so few places, with so many complainers about second-hand smoke.
I haven’t been exposed to second-hand smoke in so long, you’d think smoking was illegal.
Oh, wait...that would cost us valuable tax dollars.
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I have no doubt that Ole Mike is thinking,
“those that didn’t vote for ME,
are going straight to HELL when they die.”
I don't understand it ... people really don't KNOW his record. He's a TAXER, BOG GOVERNMENT, LIES, SOFT ON PUNIHSMENT, OPEN BORDERS and states Bush has an "arrogant bunker mentality ... " - same ideology as Demoncrats. The only thing he is right on is abortion and homosexuals. Other than that, he's just another Demoncrat - only this one uses religion as a weapon. His campaigning around is foolish. At this point it is all
ABOUT HIM and his HUGE EGO.
When hell freezes over is when he will win this election.
Do I let my kid hang around people who smoke? More or less, no. Again Bad Example.
Will I let my kid inhale 2nd hand smoke just to prove a point? No.
Do I think that the people who run these ads are lying through their teeth and would kill their own kids just to prove a point? Yup.
You’re not your kids parents, the Gubmint and public schools are. They will be indoctrinated into the Hitler Youth and NWO whether you like it or not.
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Motto of the smoke gnatzies: Sure, Hitler was a bad guy and all, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t have some good ideas.
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