Just a RANT about Anti-Smoking Commercials

You know what really makes me SICK?

Several DECADES ago, our government put their foot down, and decided to no longer allow cigarette advertisements on TV. None whatsoever.

So now that it's 2016, why in the hell do I have to watch commercials showing a guy explaining how much it sucks to live his life when he has a hole in his throat? I won't watch, but I also mute the TV, because the last thing anyone wants to hear is a guy having to hold a machine against his larynx to be able to talk, and I don't want to hear it. And it's not only him. This company has launched several anti-smoking advertisements recently, with a few different "victims". Some of them have recently died, and they are sure to let us know that.


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Not only that, but now we also have to see tons of new anti-smoking commercials, such as these.

I'm a smoker, and I have been since I was about 21. Most of the past 23 years I enjoyed smoking a few cigarettes a day. Some of those days I smoke wayy tooo much. People enjoy smoking. Cigarettes.. Pipes.. Cigars.. Marijuana.... But I stray from the point.

I used to pay $3.25 for a pack of smokes back in the 90's. These days a pack is at least $6. Sometimes they're $7.50.

You're not allowed to advertise cigarette sales. Please stop advertising only the worst possible scenarios that result from smoking!

Smoking in Outside Air

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These laws that they make insinuate that there is this gigantic 10-foot cloud surrounding a smoker... And in this cloud there is no oxygen.. It is impossible to breathe. Oh my God! Everyone within 100 yards will be infected with -- smoke. They will die immediately! If we move, the CLOUD moves with us, and it is an incredible immediately dangerous CLOUD to anyone who happens to be in the area.. like an amazing amount of distance that may include the entire property.

The truth is that many people smoke. And many people can smoke and not offend anyone at all. And you know what? I'm OUTSIDE! I'm in open air! Ordinance or no ordinance, there is nothing logical that says "a smoker may not smoke outside in open air - away from other people."

Screw your ordinance!

Lipton Lights

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...with mint.

Soggy Butts

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Ahh Touché

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Nothing to See Here - Just Lindsay Lohan's Teeth

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Vintage Asthma Cigarettes

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Jack & Smokes

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Mind if I Smoke?

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Tom Mullica's website

He was also featured in NBC's The World's Greatest Magic from 1994-1998.

Here's a good Tom Mullica bio.. Be sure to take a look at some of the links on this page. Funny dude!!

Evil Kitten: "It's Mine, All Mine"

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Vintage Ronald Reagan Smoking Ad

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I Need A Smoke

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Feds Propose Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels

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Corpses, cancer patients and diseased lungs are among the images the federal government plans for larger, graphic warning labels that would take up half of each pack of cigarettes sold in the United States.

Whether smokers addicted to nicotine will see them as a reason to quit remains a question.

The images are part of a new campaign announced by the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday to reduce tobacco use, which is responsible for about 443,000 deaths per year.

"Some very explicit, almost gruesome pictures may be necessary," FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said in an interview with The Associated Press. "This is a very, very serious public health issue, with very, very serious medical consequences," such as cancer, heart disease, strokes and lung diseases.

The share of Americans who smoke has fallen dramatically since 1970, from nearly 40 percent to about 20 percent, but the rate has stalled since about 2004. About 46 million adults in the U.S. smoke cigarettes.

In the same period, the average cost per pack has gone from 38 cents to $5.33. Much of those increases are from state and federal taxes.

The new prevention plan is part of a law passed in June 2009 that gave the FDA authority to regulate tobacco, including setting guidelines for marketing and labeling, banning certain products and limiting nicotine. The law doesn't let the FDA ban nicotine or tobacco.

The FDA is proposing 36 labels for public comment. They include phrases like "Smoking can kill you" and "Cigarettes cause cancer" and feature graphic images to convey the dangers of tobacco.

"It acts as a very public billboard because you all of the sudden are reading something about lung cancer from that pack behind the cash register, whereas before you were just reading 'Marlboro,'" said David Hammond, a health behavior researcher at the University of Waterloo in Canada, who is working with the firm designing the labels for the FDA.

Some of the labels include a man with a tracheotomy smoking a cigarette, a cartoon of a mother blowing smoke in her baby's face, rotting and diseased teeth and gums, as well as cigarettes being flushed down the toilet to signify quitting.

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More Skills

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Death Smokes

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Vintage Camel Ad

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EZ Smoke

The Smoking Gun

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Intelligent Restroom Sign

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How About A Quick Smoke

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