smoking advert

[prinnyhep]

is it just me or does that advert wher the guy gets dragged along the floor by a hook in his mouth totally freak out and scare everyone else?

[crosso]

I haven't seen the TV ad but my daughter is youngish and she is totally freaked out by the poster campaign, and so are her friends..I gather there have been quite a few written complaints about the advert - I'm not in the habit of writing irate letters, but I have to agree that the ads are totally OTT - weren't the creators aware that they would be seen by other sectors of the public apart from their targets and that shock tactics aren't appropriate? Sometimes I think that inexperienced school-leavers are involved in some campaigns, not respected adsters! I'd like to see somebody from the ad company write a defence of the ads.

[crosso]

PS Not to go on a rant, but also the kids don't understand it is an anti-smoking ad, they think that it is to show that it's cruel to go fishing and won't eat fish any more. Thanks, ad-makers!

[John Miles]

Well the ad's have now been banned apparently, at a wasted cost of some �12 million!!!