Totally Serious; Not An April Fool’s Joke
April 1, 2007 by Katherine Coble
This post over at Bob Krumm’s reminded me of a rebellion I’ve been contemplating.
I’m to the point that if I see that Singing Cowboy ad one more time I’m gonna go buy a pack of the nastiest, most unfiltered stanko cigarettes and smoke em’ all down to their dogends. I, who have never smoked. (Okay, yeah, once I tried someone else’s cigarette to see what the fuss was all about and was not swayed. But I’m not a smoker.)
That ad is so cutesy and pretentious, especially at the end where they put the little dingbat over random heads of those listening in the crowd with the blurb ‘Knowledge Is Contagious’ under it. Seriously, who doesn’t know that smoking is not really a good idea at this point? I know people keep fussing about our immigration problems, but unless we’re importing huge piles of people from Jupiter, I really think that by now we all get that Smoking Is WrongBAD.
Do ads like this do anything except annoy me before various movies, imply that everyone who smokes is lacking in knowledge (ie.stupid) and just generally create a permanent underclass of people in America?
Ugh. Those ads are awful. I suppose the idea is to keep people from picking up the habit, but it’s not as though addiction is something that is magically conquered if just *know* you’re being stupid.
I, personally HATE/LOATHE those commercials. Yeah yeah smoking is bad. We’re not stupid. So is McDonalds….where are those commercials?
I did a post some time ago saying that smoking had, for the most part, lost it’s cool. I have never smoked and never had an interest in it. However, the government and people who want to practically outlaw smoking that are helping restore the rebellious image of smoking and making me, of all people, want to light up as the ultimate “screw you.”
I personally think the more they put out those ads, the more they will make smoking cool again, haha.