Reality anti smoking adverts

[banana]

My partner who smokes doesnt believe that the people who are on the reality anti-smoking adverts -you know , the ones who tell what their lives are like and there is a foot note to say that they died 2 weeks later etc- ARE real .Is there a link or something that we could 'find' that gives further details?

[j2buttonsw]

I would have thought the advertisers would be contravening all sorts of laws if they hadn't have carked it.

[Hippy]

Yes they are. Stop smoking, then pass on to a better and longer life, free from such worries.

[gilf]

I think your partner may be in denial. These people are real Smoking can/will kill you and not in a nice peaceful way but coughing and wheezing till then end. There are many laws in advertising so that people cannot make false claims, they simply cant use actors unless they give prior warning which in this case they do not. I suggest you take her to the local Cancer ward in your local hospital and talk to some cancer patients it will be far more harrowing than these adverts already are.

[SarahW]

They are REAL. I met a woman who was on one. She did a presentation, and it was very sad how she already said goodbye to her children. I heard she died only a few weeks later. Your partner should stop smoking, the sooner the better. Those who do smoke and don't believe it's all that bad for them are in denial. One of my teachers died just last week at age 50 from it. I remember in class she would have to leave the room, she was coughing so badly. It was difficult to watch. My own granddad has emphysema, and he can barely breathe on his own, even though he quit smoking 30 odd years ago. At the end of their short lives, smokers start to cough up blood, and their lungs are black and coated with tar. It's a painful way to die.

[Lucylocket]

http://www.givingupsmoking.co.uk/CNI/Current_Campaign giving up smoking site that made the adverts and says they are real

[aidan]

Well, the question has already been answered: yes, it is real. The question that should be raised about these adverts is whether they serve any good purpose. Why didn't your parter believe them? Even if they truly don't, do they think it isn't what happens to smokers? You'd probably have to be a total recluse not to know that smoking kills in some of the most horrific ways-in fact you'd have to be from mars. But what good have these adverts done? Let me put it like this: Imagine you are handcuffed in a cell without food or water, just a tv. Imagine that on that tv they showed other people like you who have been handcuffed in a cell for weeks and were dying a horrible death. How would you feel? Would you be so shocked that you'd stop being handcuffed in a cell? Or would you feel terrified of your certain death and hate the hypocrasy of someone telling you that if you don't get out you'll die. You don't need motivation, you need a key. Wouldn't it be better if they showed you a way to pick the lock on the handcuffs! Wouldn't that help more than shock tactics? Having been a drug addict (that's what smoking is...not a 'habbit', not a 'weakness'...an ADDICTION) for 6 years I can honestly say that those adverts frightened me into smoking. Think about it! You are in a position where you are killing yourself with a poison that is going to kill you! Not only that but the world is intent on rubbing it in! How stressed do you think the average smoker is now? And what do smokers do when they are stressed? SMOKE! It's just a stupid tactic and an incredible waste of money. If you want your partner to be a non-smoker can I suggest that you NEVER EVER try and apply pressure. It never worked on me or anyone else. What I would suggest you do is read a book called 'Allen Carr's easy way to stop smoking'. It will help you to understand how smoking works, and hopefully your partner will take an interest and prove to you that it isn't hard at all. Anyway, good luck!