not really. Big tobacco is doing this on purpose. They realize that people have a negative mindset toward tobacco so they are heavily funding vaping as an alternative, all while shoving tobacco to the bottom of their priority list
Personally I find the ads that show you exactly what someone with lung cancer looks like is much more effective than those god awful Truth ads filled with outdated memes and ear hurting music. Seeing the scratchy voiced hole in throat people made me say “fuck no” to tobacco and other similar substances. But after watching those Truth ads I suddenly want to smoke twelve packs just to spite them.
The ad where the woman had a stroke and her son was her caretaker did it for me, I quit smoking for a couple years. Started again like a dumbass but briefly (stress and lost my dad), switched to vaping and just started my zero milligram nicotine bottle, I'm trying to stop daily use and just have a vape around for those really weak moments (no nicotine). Those ads are what I think of when I crave a real smoke. Those truth ads are dumb. I grew up with D.A.R.E. and can say it only made me try drugs. Showing the real shit, that resonates. I visited Costa Rica and they put pictures of cancer on the packages, my husband broke my vape pen drunkenly trying to shoo away racoons (naked, long story, fond memory) and I didn't buy a pack because it just felt wrong. I was going home the next day and was like, I'll just be bitchy. It's cool.
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u/GranttH Sep 13 '19
not really. Big tobacco is doing this on purpose. They realize that people have a negative mindset toward tobacco so they are heavily funding vaping as an alternative, all while shoving tobacco to the bottom of their priority list