That Truth Ad would’ve been good if it was like “People in college who try cigarettes still smoke 4 years later” and then it’s a guy smoking a cig and referencing dead memes from his college years, still doing the same shit 4 years later.
guy just goes "damn, daniel! what are thoooooose?" and the entire party goes silent. honestly just by implying that you'll embarrass yourself if you smoke/vape is much more impactful than "hey if i smoke i get to see funny meme cat"
When I was in elementary we had this man doing a presentation for the whole school. He had no jaw due to throat cancer. Telling us why smoking is bad. My school was seriously messed up but it worked 😳
those definitely fucked me up. seeing all those people with holes in their throat, and then the end of the ads when they said they died shortly after filming at like age 55.
The most effective anti-smoking campaign for me growing up (as a millennial) was actually a school assembly. This guy came to my school and didn't talk at all about the health effects of smoking; but rather how terrible and corrupt tobacco companies are. I never had the desire to smoke anyway, but learning that tobacco companies are the ACTUAL devil really drove it home for me.
They really cant say that anymore though, the tobacco companies can no longer advertize except that their product causes cancer and birth defects. So in reality they are just selling a product that the buyer knows is addictive and bad but make that choice either because they are already addicted or just decided that they dont care abt the negative effects and want to feel the few possitive effects of the product much like what people do with alcohol
@@toastedt140 Oh yeah -- both Carolinas have been known as the tobacco states, mainly North Carolina though. I like this state, there are so many good things about it, but we have an awful government.
@@mjotaku1856 that's me right now, I'm 20 but most stores in black neighborhoods don't care about about age and will sell you Lucy's and black and mild and vapes if you just ask right. It wasn't until I moved to live with my gf for a while that I was able to quit, I'm like 5 months clean off smoking now and I'm so happy but I still struggle, Smoking is no joke.
As someone who works with kids, my number one philosophy is not treat children as adults, but treat them as human beings. They aren’t stupid and they are incredibly good at figuring out when they’re being talked down to.
That’s what I’ve been saying for years and even as a kid. No one understands we’re all just humans. Now children 3-9 may not see eye to eye, but 10-17 definitely do.
Exactly. (Long rant ahead I am very sorry) Why does it feel like people only see human beings as either children or adults- there are many shades of gray and even children can understand MOST things if you explain honestly! Especially twelve and onward. Why do people think "teenage angst" is so common? It can't ALL be hormones. A lot of it is because of the lag between a teen becoming "smarter" (or at least more aware) and basically having to wait out the next six years until ANYONE will take them seriously. Not saying middle schoolers should vote or something crazy like that, but people will really treat you like you're incapable of forming opinions or having basic comprehension because you're not a legal adult. Everyone older than thirty I ever talk to is all empty words about how I'm "smart" or whatever but the second I actually HAVE something to say they don't care. It's obvious they only look at test scores (very narrow skillset) and IQ (in my opinion not an accurate measurement at all). They don't think I'm SMART, not really; I'm just a wonderful statistic, a lovely high point on a graph that doesn't matter. Can't wait for 2025- maybe when I'm 18 people will think I'm worth listening to 🫠
@@lays5277 The unfortunate part is just because you turn 18 doesn't mean people will take you seriously, maybe you could boss around minors but until you are 30 you will be considered a young immature adult who knows next to nothing about life. The IQ I fully agree with. It reminds me of that one friend I've had who was always into logic puzzles and chess. He enjoyed the shit out of them, it was his hobby, just solving logic puzzles and participating in local chess tournaments against basically only adults. Despite having an IQ over 160 (Would never remember exact number, but it was way too high for a teenager) he has always held an opinion that "IQ tests only measure how well people solve IQ tests". Which you know checks out, IQ tests are practically logic puzzles... unless I'm an idiot that is and have never seen a real one.
The best anti-drug message I ever got was from one of my teachers. She passed out the calculators and had us count up how much it costs to smoke a pack a day for a week, a month, or a year. Then she handed out newspaper ads and asked us to cut out all the cool shit we'd rather buy with that amount of money. That stuck with me harder than the photos of black lungs. I didn't have a good grasp of my own mortality, but I understood money well enough to know I'd rather have the iPod.
The most impactful Anti-Drug thing for me was probably The Main event in TNA's Paper View Victory Road 2011, Jeff Hardy nearly destroyed his career cuz he got too high before his match against Sting, the only reason it didn't destroy his career is cuz it's Jeff Hardy, but seeing how he ruined a match he was looking forward to his entire life, and so I never want to take anything addictive ever from seeing that
Absolutely, when I realized that I just couldn't phantom how I could keep up with any videogames or just nice stuff. Now with these vapes you can even go the extra mile and spend just to have something that can smoke something in a "cool" way.
I'm such a materialistic person that that hits alot harder for me. Smoking has like no benefits at all vs if I spend $10 even on like earbuds at least those will have more added value than a pack of smokes. Pizza is unnecessary when you could be eating a healthier meal BUT at least pizza is food and will give you some nutritional value vs a vape which is also bad but has no nutritional value. So to me smoking is an expensive habit that like has no added value at least smoking cigarettes. Nicotine really does nothing for you vs marijuana can have actual benefits to a person.
So, fun fact - a lot of if not all tobacco companies are required by law to fund anti-smoking ads, so it’s not uncommon for anti-smoking ads to be used to secretly advertise smoking. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that the “this ad is so cringy, I’m going to smoke out of spite” mentality is intentional.
yeah I feel like this video really glossed over the fact that this whole Truth organization is funded indirectly by tobacco companies. Which also run their own anti-smoking campaigns. Cig companies running anti-cig campaigns, sounds honest right?
100% agree. I don't remember specifics of truth initiative commercials from 10-15 years ago, but I do remember that they always, always, always made me want to go spite-smoke when I saw them on TV. I wouldn't at all be surprised if this org got money from tobacco companies to make these commercials; wish the video went into more detail there
@@megmazzle its funny because anecdotally I see many people saying exactly what you said. I dont' smoke often, maybe a pack a month, so idk if I'm their target audience but I always remembered the cool kids at the parties with the girls smoking...and then the boring kids going home to do something else. what would you choose? lol
The reason I’ve never done coke is because my guitar teacher very seriously told me that it’s amazing, and if I start, I’ll never want to stop. If they stop underestimating teens, they can actually do some good.
Coke makes you awake, overconfident and talk to much. I've never done coke because that is 3 things I love so I would never stop and everyone would hate me because those 3 things already make up a huge part of my personality
Your guitar teacher prob has ADHD, everyone I have ever known with a coke problem was ADHD as fuck, signed, I take baby amphetamines as a medication prescribed by my doctor lmao
I don't know if this was just a small town Canada thing, but when the anti-smoking people came into my elementary class with a pig's lung and trachea to show us how cigarettes do ya dirty... I felt that.
OMG you're one of the last people I'd expect to be here, but yeah I think that may have just been a Canadian thing, I know over in the northeast USA would have the anti-smoking people come over and we'd play like games and stuff to demonstrate what would happen if you smoked.
Ironically, the anti-smoking ads we all remember are 1) the ones with seriously ill people 2) the ones with adults. For some reason we’re more affected by the ones who relate to our future selves than our present selves
all I remember is the movie "thank you for smoking" in which a lobbyist has an attempted assassination done where the cover him in nicotine patches to try and make him OD but he survived because he's so used to it and then gets to go on tv and say "smoking saved my life" and I'm just now realizing how ridiculous that movie was...... also suffered from the same thing watchmen does, he's supposed to be the bad guy but he's the protagonist so you inherently try to sympathize with him.
i think its because they're so real. they used to be children, teenagers, and young adults who started smoking, and now that theyre older that addiction has caught up with them and caused cancer and other health impacts. for all of these truth ads with giant monsters made of metal to represent the metal from cigarette smoke that you can inhale or that creepy one where the teenagers mouths are turned into ports for vapes, NONE are as effective as showing the actual truth. real people who have had surgeries or lost love ones because of smoking, and the detriments to their health are visible and tangible and understandable things to a young person who has started or is thinking about smoking
yet they still don't really work. seeing what can happen if you smoke multiple packs a day for years isn't gonna make teens say no when offered a cig because that's just the extreme of cigarette addiction
One time we had an anti weed PSA when I was about 16. Shit was real. It didn’t make weed out as the devil, it just showed slowly how weed makes teenagers change priorities and inhibit their success. It was the story of a relatively young lad who inhibited himself in college because he started smoking hella weed. It was the best one I’ve ever seen because it was so realistic
It is again. At least around me. People still vape, but they don’t vape because it’s cool, they vape because they’re addicted. I don’t know many people that recently started vaping/smoking because all the kids that are addicted realize it’s shitty and told other kids it’s shitty
@@michaelpugh2617 it’s a good thing that the vaping marketing was put to rest as quickly as it was, I think that’s a big part of why it slowed down, but it’s awful to know there are still young adults out there slowly getting out of high school and college who will start to really feel the consequences soon.
@@Jackenack If it wasn't for e-cigarettes, I would still be smoking today. I managed to switch to vaping a few years ago (not to quit, just because I wanted to try it), and I actually completely quit smoking cigarettes because of that, which inspired me to fully quit nicotine by switching to nicorette gum. Now I'm down to just 1 piece of gum a day, and pretty soon I'll be totally nicotine-free. I guess what I'm trying to say is that vaping is still a really helpful tool for adults. I genuinely never planned on quitting smoking, so the fact that simply trying an e-cigarette gave me that extra push and the confidence I needed to actually quit using nicotine entirely is really awesome. I guess I'm just afraid that people are starting to support the idea of getting rid of e-cigarettes entirely, so I want to remind people that there are a lot of adults who depend on them, and who would be smoking multiple packs of cigarettes a day without the option to vape instead.
Honestly, the best anti-smoking ad for me is having a mother who smokes. She’s generally pretty healthy which I’m thankful for, but you can tell she hates smoking and that it’s hard for her to stop even though she wants to
Has she tried using an e-cigarette? I tried using one a few years ago, and I was actually able to successfully switch from smoking 2 packs a day to only using the e-cigarette. That experience even gave me the confidence to try getting off nicotine entirely, so I officially quit vaping 4ish months ago and started using nicorette gum, and now I'm down to just one piece of gum a day! I really think vaping is worth trying if she would be up for it. I can even give some reccomendations on what ecig and eliquid to get if you want! I switched using a $30 ecig, so it doesn't need to be expensive or anything! Also, if she does ever decide to try quitting a more traditional way, there are organizations that will offer free counseling/support and even free or discounted nicorette gum and patches, so make sure to research online or ask a primary care doctor for a reccomendation if she ever decides to quit!
@@orchdork775 i do recall her talking about switching to vaping at some point. I’d have to bring it up with her again to know her opinion on switching now.
we used to have those types of ads in america too. i grew up with them and they scared me enough to never consider smoking. some of them were absolutely scarring. those types of ads are less common now though, even though they really shouldn't be :/
Fun fact: a different anti-vaping campaign (I think it’s called like the facts now or something) made a horror game where you have to go through rooms quickly to escape an insane asylum or be left to rot. It isn’t until the very end though that it tells you that this is what vaping is like.
“You don’t want anti-smoking campaigns to become cringy in kids heads because then vaping becomes cool and not vaping becomes not cool” Truth & D.A.R.E don’t get it tho. You broke it down perfectly, hopefully they see this lol
While I won’t deny the possibility of this being true, the argument that it’s being funded by big tobacco doesn’t really hold water. Back when those companies were first called out for targeting kids and just in general lying about the health risks of smoking, the ruling from the government was basically “for every tobacco ad a company puts out, an anti -smoking PSA must be played directly after and those ads must be funded by said company” and while there aren’t as many smoking ads nowadays, when there’s something like the truth initiative it has to be funded at least in part by big tobacco.
This is so interesting bc the only Truth ads I see on tiktok are the creepy, vaguely threatening videos that have real facts. This is entirely different, it’s crazy how brands do that and it’s crazy how good the algorithm is that it shows such differently toned things to people who engage in different content
Yeah I was just about to comment this. The one that stays with me is the one that ends with “... but nothing is scarier than the truth.” I’ve never seen these super cringe ones lmao. The facts truly are scary, let that do the talking lol.
I think this is mostly upsetting bc they're acting like just bc they're kids/teens that it'll be "easy" for them to quit. They're not taking what kids go through seriously
@@Iemons Life is what they go through. Social expectation, stress about school, stress about when they aren’t in school, family stress, work stress. And a friend just goes “relax for like a few hours” and they say “Okay. That sounds nice.”
Ya seriously I started just before 12th grade and I instantly regretted it but what was I supposed to do? I was dealing with so much stress between covid-19 and graduating, to applying for university, to saving up money and working my ass off so that I could AFFORD university, that after all that, I just couldn't justify quitting vaping at the moment and essentially doubling down on my stress and anxiety. Kids know how bad and expensive it is for them but for most teenagers, life is already too stressful to add combatting an addiction to that list. We need more support and guidance and less preaching and shaming.
I'm so angry that corporations are so greedy that theyll destroy kid's lives. It feels like a movie villain plot: we'll target the kids and get them hooked on drugs because they're young and moldable and then we'll be RICH it's absolutely evil
Eddy’s reminds me of my older brother that moved out like 4 years ago but when he comes to visit it’s like he never left at all. Basically I’m always happy to see him regardless of how long I have to wait, and it’s as if he never left in the first place when he comes back!
Same..I never ever smoked in my life but as a young child with a father who smoked regularly that ad terrified me!!! I didnt wanna end up like that or see my dad like that Like please less cheap dancing, shaming, and memes, more facts about how this stuff actually affects you
Same here man except I didn't see the ad. I was working a part time job and I served this dude who had had a hole in his throat. It's a horrible thing to see up close. I still smoke occasionally but I actually managed to stop for a good while after seeing that
They're actually pretty bad now, you can't take them seriously. For whatever reason, don't any, or minimal statistics. What worked on me was good parents and health class. They showed me pictures of smoker's lungs, lung/throat/mouth/etc cancer, and statistics.
As a little girl in elementary school, they showed us a model of a human mouth that had been smoking vs a healthy mouth. That alone made me know I never wanted to put those cancer sticks near me. No fuzzy tongue and yellow teeth for me please! I don’t see how they expect these tiktok videos to work. Like you said, the facts are the best way to go about anti smoking campaigns. Being cringe just makes kids wanna vape out of spite.
@@richhornie7000everyone’s teeth are naturally a little yellow, but if your teeth are overly yellow, you could definitely try whitening toothpaste and/or whitening strips. Those work.
@@richhornie7000 It is because the dentin layer beneath the enamel is naturally yellow. The color of the dentin is barely visible for some while in others who have thinner enamel the yellow shade appears more visible.
When I was a smoker, a lot of the really shamey anti-smoking ads would just make me want to have a cigarette because the shame kind of makes you feel resigned to being a smoker. It’s a lot of self hate. The one ad that really worked for me was one about a teen girl and all the times she would have to withdraw from her friends to go smoke, essentially like “you just got all this freedom and now you’re giving it all up again,” because it kind of reminded me like, hey my time is valuable and I’ve been choosing to spend it in a way that pulls me away from what I really love. That worked so much better on me than “EW SMOKERS ARE SO GROSS” because then I’d just be like “yup” and I’d go smoke.
Omg same, one ad that hit home for me was the kid who was watching tv with his family and then he had to get up and smoke and was watching them enjoying themselves without him from through the window.
I'm a social smoker, and sometimes use it as fuel like people do with caffeine, but I've never had a dependency, i always hated my family members going outside every few hours, 30 minutes, 5 minutes, etc because they needed a cigarette
The most effective anti-smoking ad I ever saw was a testimonial--not from a smoker, but from a man who'd gotten lung cancer from second hand smoking. It really drove home that smoking doesn't just hurt you; it hurts the people around you, too.
@@jeppy4021 what does that even mean? smokers are people with feelings and empathy too. one of my closest friends, the kindest guy. i know hands down, has struggled to quit smoking for 2 years and he apologises to people around him whenever he has one. don't dehumanise addicts and say "they don't care about things"
@@waspswarm870 @Anton Noonan If they really cared, then they wont be smoking in public where there are children too who could inhale the smoke... second degree smoking cancer exists.
@@waspswarm870 they could very well smoke indoors and get lung cancer alone... My close relative has gotten a second degree lung cancer from inhaling smoke. So I hate smokers with a burning passion.
@@jeppy4021 ok you seem very young. all i'll say is don't hate an entire group based on the actions of one, and don't hate people for having addictions. cravings can happen at any time, also if you're in public you can't smoke indoors, it's illegal?
I grew up in a non-smoking home. My dad had quit smoking when my older brother was born and only picked it back up after I (the youngest) turned 16. Growing up, he ate a lot of those nicotine gums and pills and stuff. I didn't understand why until I realized he was doing it for his kids. He didn't want us to start smoking too, so he held back until he knew it wouldn't affect us as much anymore. The first time I saw him smoke, I was shocked. I'm the only child living at our home (I am an adult now tho) and he has still never smoked full on I front of me. He just does it when he goes for a walk or takes out the dog. I'm really grateful for him Growing up I had a friend who's mom was a smoker. It wasn't to the point where their house would smell or anything, but I do remember one conversation I had with that friend. I think we were playing house, and she had one of those candy cigarettes or pipes and said she wanted to start smoking when she was an adult like her mom. Sure enough, when we became teenagers, she started smoking and we kinda drifted apart after that (for other reasons). The environment you grow up in affects whether you'll smoke or not as much or even more than the friends you have. Parents need to set examples for their kids, and kids need to know all the risks of vaping and smoking. My country is trying to become smokeless in the future and I really hope that can happen one day.
Being an adult would mean you recognize that most "dangers" about vaping are just BS and not supported by any actual statistics. No, they are treated like children and expected to think on the level of children; don't ask questions, just do what we say because we know what is best for you.
@@Antiformed the reason why there aren’t many stats on vaping is because it’s so new. Studies are still being done. Don’t be so quick to dismiss it’s potential danger as we don’t fully know everything
@@Antiformed we still don't know the long-term effects. I'm an adult and I have vaped and smoked since I was 16. I know it's bad for me, but I honestly feel like I can't start the day without it. I'm admitting this to you and to myself for the first time. I have an addiction.
"the real cost" ones on snapchat honestly guilted me into stopping because they showed like gross anatomical shit that i was like "damn yeah thats like actually my body" so i stopped. shits morbid but it works
I think morbid & stuff that plays with your emotions is the way to go with these campaigns. You either want to be completely disgusted or driven to tears because of real stories.
Remember the one with the whole beauty and majestic lookin smokers and then it switched to the guy in a wheelchair and on life support. Man that shit scared me
One of the anti smoking ads from my childhood that really stuck with me was one of the "Real Cost" commercials, where the girl in the ad is signing a contract giving away her freedom and allowing the cigarettes to run her life. I think those work so well because they're really driving home the message that you're slowly becoming a slave to this addiction. And teens want to be free.
Agreed, i don't think the "Real Cost" campaign just in general will ever leave my skull. Idk why, but the ones that have stuck with me the most are the ones where they forced you to listen to a viscerally unpleasant sound (looking at you here, teeth chewing other teeth)
I remember when I was 10 I was watching a Minecraft TH-cam video and an add plays beforehand. It had a woman in it with a vocalizer because her throat was destroyed because she smoked. There wasn’t anything flashy, they weren’t any memes, just someone who was hurt and scared by smoking. That video instantly made me never want to smoke. Kids aren’t stupid. Tell them what will happen and they will listen.
I feel like they should go the route of Alcohol commercials, pure shock of what could happen; i once saw this one where a kid dropped his glass of milk because his father was a drunk driver. Also, the amount of pure horror they put on Canadian smoke boxes is astonishing, it's straight up nasty.
@@sydnerxx My mom is a smoker and I can confirm these pictures on Canadian smoke boxes terrified me as a child. Although I don’t think it’s easy for someone addicted to stop like that so that probably explains why they don’t seem to care
i’m 16, and i switched to vapes when i got sober off of harder substances, honestly i think what would help is the support, the kindness, it’s really hard to get clean when you have a bunch of adults being mad at you or patronizing you for it. You absolutely are on the right track :)
I'm a 36 year old addict. I've been on and off drugs pretty much my entire life. Went from pills in my teens to heroin. Been playing music my entire life and put years and years of work into being good at it and pretty much ruined every opportunity I had to make it a career. If you're 16 and already realized you had a problem and got sober GOOD FOR YOU! Absolutely no adult should be patronizing you they should be fucking proud of you for being mature enough to realize you had a problem and wanted help. It took me being 30 before I finally started realizing it. Super proud of you. Remember that recovery is not linear. Don't beat yourself up if you ever slip or hate yourself for it. Wish you nothing but the absolute fucking best in life!
As a athletic kid in my high school years I got hooked on smoking, I have struggled all through my twenties to quit. I've smoked on and off even trying vapes, chew and gum. I also went thought the dare program and got hooked on heroin at 19, they never warned us about doctors prescribing opiates. Had pain issues at 18 and got prescribed continuous amounts of vicoden and oxycodone. I had never touche a hard drug in high school till i saw that fuckin doctor. After over a decade later im finally getting back to my healthy self. Your spot on the money Eddy! I wish you were around in the early 2000's to make a video... Maybe i would have listened
My stepmom got hooked on lortabs when I was younger because a shitty doctor prescribed her insane amounts of them. I remember visiting her in rehab. I remember seeing her eyes finally have some life in them. I felt like I was raising my little brother for a while because she was always sleeping. I didn’t know who she was. She’s clean now and I’m so proud. I know it’s hard. I hate that happened to you. Hopefully that doctor got their license taken. We’re all so proud of you ❤️
Poor guy, I know a few people who have struggled with opiates after being prescribed them. Buffy Sainte-Marie has a song called "Cod'ine" about her experience getting hooked on prescription meds (back in the 60's!) If you like folk music you might like it, it's a good song.
I actually teared up at the people reading the quotes. THATS powerful. I remember Truth doing things when I was a kid, where they had a commercial and everyone collaped in Time Square or something like that and it was supposed to represent how many people died every few minutes from smoking. You don't need flashy dances, this is an instance where you just need the truth. Kids are much smarter than they're given credit for.
Yup. My family has an issue of heart issues and recently my uncle passed away. My dad had 6 brothers, and the one that passed was one of the youngest. And the ONLY difference between him and the others? He smoked. If that's not enough to scare both my brother and I, I'm not sure what would be. My grandpa also smoked, and died from lung cancer when I was 2. My grandma, on the other hand, has never smoked and she's still kicking at 94. Fuck cigarettes/nicotine/whatever.
Oh ya. They had 1200 people surround a major tobacco corporation building and had them all collapse and “die.” They also did another one where they filled up 1200 body bags and piled them up around a major tobacco company building (maybe the same one)
Yeah that ad and like the one where someone paid for their pack with their teeth. Those kept me away from cigarettes but not I vape so I guess it wasn’t THAT effective oops
I'm a 16 year old that quit smoking weed, vaping and drinking liquor about like 5 months ago, and I can honestly say that it wasn't any anti-smoking campaign that got me clean, it was myself. I found a passion, which was working out and making music, and now I'm a lot happier than I was. Truth should focus on what to do, rather than what NOT to do, because putting the situation in a positive context and looking for the next step is a lot more effective than just avoiding the negative. There is a way out of addiction.
All my anxious friends vape, even if they swore they wouldn't, we should have been encouraged to go to the doctor, we're not weak for feeling anxious. I'm anxious too and I like to listen to music, sit outside, do puzzles with my nephew, and chew gum. I have been feeling a lot better. I also am going to pursue ADHD diagnosis.
@@xSwordLilyx Exactly man, there are few cases where people vape "just cuz." I mean there are ofc, but most people are dealing with something and trying to forget about it, or self medicate to deal with something like anxiety or depression, which is what I was doing. I'm glad you made the decision to quit, it gets easier with time. Definitely pursue getting an ADHD diagnosis, I was actually diagnosed when I was like 7 years old, which I'm really grateful for. If you can, I'd also recommend going to therapy, or meditating, just doing whatever you can to take care of your mental health
@@RedTail1-1 it wasn't allowed in my household, it's just that substances are suprisingly available, and even target towards kids nowadays. There are plenty of people I know that specifically sell weed and alcohol to highschoolers, cuz they'll pay more for it. It's disgusting.
They are funded by Tobacco companies and make anit-vape stuff because they want people to smoke cigarettes and tobacco rather than nicotine-only alternatives. Edit: didn't think I needed to spell it out for people, the second part of this is cynical and sarcastic not meant to claim some ridiculous Pizzagate type conspiracy
@@Moony1568 The Truth Initiative was made as a result of a law suit (called the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement) from 46 US states and 5 territories to get the Tobacco industry to pay back medicaid spending on sick smokers. The Tobacco industry settled to pay billions in perpetuity, and part of that goes to the Truth Initiative. truthinitiative.org/who-we-are/our-history/master-settlement-agreement www.publichealthlawcenter.org/topics/commercial-tobacco-control/commercial-tobacco-control-litigation/master-settlement-agreement en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Initiative
@Justin B I know that the company existed before vapes, and I didn't say they were designed to promote cigarettes and be anti-vaping or that tobacco companies have a say in they're programs. I'm being cynical and hyperbolic because they do a lot less anti-cigarette stuff now and focus on anti-vaping ads. I'm not claiming any conspiracy, but the links I posted support my claim about funding and talk about how they were made and funded by and because of tobacco companies (one of the sources being the Truth Initiative's own website). I don't think it's some conspiracy, I just think it's a bad look that they aren't focused on their original goals anymore, and my point is more that the very informative and effective anti-tobacco ads, like the few Eddy talked about are a lot less common now than the absurd and intentionally abstract anti-vaping ads they make more of.
The best anti smoking commercials are the ones that are borderline grotesque. I remember seeing one were a girl teen is trying to buy a pack of cigarettes, and she doesn't have enough money, so she peels off her skin to pay for them. This shows how smoking can cause bad effect on your body. I was scared so much, I decided I would never smoke. That is what works. Not putting cringy memes and dancing with no meaning.
The one that always stuck with me was the one showing the social pressures of smoking throughout the years with jazzy music....then it ends with the beat turning into a heart monitor and a crippled person talking about how smoking killed them.
there’s one going around now where this teen guy is delivered a horrible set of teeth/gums and then it switches to his mouth... f*king unsettling af. I’ve been against smoking for a long time but I see why it’s the kind of stuff that works.
@@Rigiroony I love that ad so much, it showed up on nearly every DVD my family rented. I thought the transitions are neat and did a great job portraying how media likes showing smoking. What really got to me was the ad of the people with holes in their throats and giving advice on how to cope with it.
One of the best anti-smoking campaigns I've ever seen came out a few years ago. It was this actor, an older guy at that point, who had played supporting roles in numerous popular kids' and teen movies. No funny memes or anything, just him, in his living room, on a chair. He starts talking about how much he smoked, and then says that he's now suffering from late-stage lung cancer. He just openly declares that he's dying, and it's because he decided to start smoking. He finishes by asking, that the viewer doesn't smoke almost pleading the viewer to not kill themselves basically He ended up dying of lung cancer shortly after.
I vaguely remember one where they’re interviewing a smoker and the reveal that he had died shorty after the interview from it. I never thought about it but now I realize that’s probably a large part why I never wanted to smoke. Even with vapes, I think they look stupid but I can’t deny that I still remember those commercials.
The main thing that made me afraid of smoking was my grandpa dying of lung cancer at the pretty young age (in terms of death) of 46. I wasn’t even BORN when he died and I’m still terrified of becoming a smoker.
The one I remember actually terrified me as a kid. I vaguely remember it but it was talking about how bad Camal cigarettes are and it was this old woman breathing thru an Iron lung talking about how smoking did that to her
I liked Truth's "its a great big world" campaign where they gave some facts about how damaging smoking can be while showing some unsettling Claymation body horror.
The most effective anti smoking ads to me personally was “the real cost” ones. There was this one add where the guy doesn’t have enough money for cigarettes and he takes a pair of pliers and pulls out his teeth and another where a girl rips the skin off her cheeks and it was so fucking scary that I think it really made me never want to smoke
Frickin WOT. I remember the ones where the guy under a bridge opens a box and it's his rotting gums and teeth in it with scary music and lighting and stuff, that was bad but NOT THAT BAD
truth's snapchat ads are terrifying. there's one where a bunch of teenagers are in a dimly lit building running from something while screaming, crying and begging for their lives
I started smoking when I was 14, 14 years ago, after my mom died, from smoking. I quit one week ago tomorrow. I knew how stupid I was being picking it up. I had it in my mind, "I won't be addicted like everyone else." Well, 14 years later I can safely say they are definitely addicting. I stopped cold turkey, and I don't anticipate going back to being a daily smoker, but I definitely can tell I'm probably going to relapse at some point unfortunately. Ugh. I'm sorry Mom.
Truth used to have those ads where they'd have a person sign a contract listing all the bad shit caused by smoking, including the social consequences of having an addiction. Those were really powerful and scared the hell out of kids. Then they started doing kiddie anti-vape ads with puppets throwing up at the idea their friend was vaping. I feel it got even worse when they started having ads about how no one knows the consequences of vaping because it's so new, but that just sounded the same as saying there might not be any consequences. They went from effective to cringe and out of touch, and it's sad.
Full disclosure, the earliest truth ads I saw were (I think) the ones where people were paying for cigarettes with teeth and shit but even then it was always just stupid and kinda funny. I’m not confident they were ever particularly effective. I think truth ads do more to comfort parents than stop teenagers.
Look I’m not saying I started vaping BECAUSE of those ads, but I never considered starting until I saw them. The old ads that showed the health problems (tooth loss, gum decay, skin problems, etc) absolutely kept me away
@@ptaradactletime11 iirc Truth is funded and partially managed by the big tobacco companies as apart of the settlements of the 90s (where they were found guilty of marketing to children and covering up the harm it does.) There's definitely some people behind it that care about getting kids to not smoke. But it also exists because companies make it by court mandate. So yeah they probably want adults to see them as fulfilling their duty more than kids.
If you saw a kid vaping and treated them the same as a kid you saw smoking, you might just make things worse. In fact, some doctors prescribe vaping to teens who are addicted to smoking. It may not be safe, but its no where near as dangerous as cigarettes. Fuck cigarettes, they took my grandpa.
Just as a perspective, I started vaping at 14, it led me to smoking, I smoked and vaped for 5 years with the last 2 being mostly vaping, over that time I developed a smokers cough, my lungs felt like shit every day for years, I couldn't exercise and do cardio without severe pain in my lungs, I was having chest pain often, my O2 saturation was at 94-95 consistently by 19. Here I am, after many attempts at quitting iver the last 4 years and finally off it once again, my lungs feel much better, my O2 is between 99-100, my cough is mostly gone, I'm not having chest pains, I'm not wasting my money on something that I've grown to hate because of the redundancy and detriment to my health. Nicotine fucking sucks, if you don't think that now then give it 5 years tops and you'll think it then, quit before it makes your life a miserable cycle of slowly killing yourself with a drug you can't stand but keep doing because of the addiction.
I remember my school showing us a documentary about the farmers who grow the actual nicotine, and what a predatory business that is. It was well made, made you realise you might be hurting more people than yourself by buying nicotine products, and really tackled the issue of teens smoking in a new way. And why was that such a good idea? Because it treated us like human beings capable of critcal thinking and empathy. It showed us that while we might be okay right now, long term smoking is harmful in so many ways, for both you and the people working to supply the companies you inadvertantly support.
YES, this. I’m 34 now, but as a 12-year-old I wrote a paper for school about child labor. It stuck with me, and to this day I won’t shop at places that don’t have “no child labor” certification. I know it’s not a great solution to that problem, but my point is the message stuck with me 22 years later. Kids and teens are much more capable than we give them credit for, and if you give them information, or better yet, help them find it themselves, it can have profound, long lasting impacts
When I was a kid, they brought in an actual pigs lung that they had exposed to cigarette smoke. It was completely black and rotted. It was so disgusting. The only thing I ever heard about from my classmates about smoking was how they hated that their parents did it. No one ever smoked. And I remember the ads where it showed how miserable people who smoked were and how it was a coping mechanism for a lot of them, it ruins their body and how much money it costs to smoke over years. The lady who had a device in her throat so she could talk. And people who had terrible illnesses because of second hand smoking. Also, the ads where it shows how the big tobacco companies target vulnerable people, how much money they make off of it, the way that they advertise, all the ways the fight and try to manipulate the law so they can still sell cigarettes, and how little they care about life.
They should do that with drugs too, people who grow drugs in poor country to it out of fear of bigger threat :( anyway that looks like a good documentary, thanks for sharing.
the best anti smoking commercial were those ones where they pulled their teeth out or ripped their skin off to trade in for a pack. I’ll never forget those
I started smoking and vaping as a teen and have quit more than once and honestly the most effective ad was on youtube saying using nicotine when anxious is a scam and makes you more anxious and I realized how bad my anxiety was since I picked up nicotine again and I tend to go back to it when I'm under a lot of stress.
I need to see that - I have been struggling to quit for over 2 years and that would hit me much harder given I have ADHD and ASD, where generalised anxiety is a huge problem.
As much as they scared my childhood, The Real Cost ads are actually good and take themselves seriously for the most part. Like I’m pretty sure people remember that commercial where the lady ripped off her skin. As weird as they are, they are more effective than Truth. So u gotta give them that.
The real cost knew how to really scare teens away from cigarettes! Those alien style monster ads where they attack kids and then crawl back into the cigarette carton. Damn, THOSE were scary and effective!
It's so cringy seeing them now, because back in the early or late 2000's, truth initiative had some real effective commercials such as when live protesters dropped dead all at once in the middle of the street to demonstrate how many people die every year from smoking.
@@lhaviland8602 Also with most anti-vape adds being made by big tobacco. Half of it is companies trying to overshadow anti-tobacco adds; the other half is made purposely cringy.
i remember the old anti smoking ad where the girl literally *peeled the skin off her face* and now it’s “hey there’s a guy dancing in a costume... so stop smoking”
@@Bruh-ob9mi lol those ads were the standard for what every horror movie should be. It wouldn't make me quit if I was addicted but it sure as hell not worse than the ads shown in the video
@@Bruh-ob9mi I mean they can bring them back but it won't affect vape use because vaping isn't anywhere near as harmful as smoking. There's nothing that's been proven with vapes that can be artistically exaggerated in that way like they did with skin aging, tooth decay, etc. There's just no proof vaping does things like that so they probably should stick with things that have some good peer reviewed studies backing them up.
In Australia where I lived for most of my childhood the cigarette boxes have pictures of diseased organs and such to deter people from smoking. I don’t smoke but I’d see that shit on the ground everywhere when I walked home from school so that was fun. Definitely don’t wanna smoke tho so I guess it works pretty well.
It’s amazing our governments won’t just make it illegal to smoke. They know it’s carcinogenic but still allow it and make marijuana illegal. It’s a shame
@@changedmynamee It's reductive to liken a tobacco ban to prohibition. For one, smuggling and consuming alcohol is a LOT easier than trying to hide the reek of cigarette smoke. People who drink recreationally (usually) aren't battling alcohol cravings throughout the day and are struggling to quit; hence, the public sentiment towards a tobacco ban might be completely different.
Both my parents smoked when I was a kid, and I was told vehemently my entire childhood to never EVER start smoking. They both regretted ever starting and they were very open about the cost, financial and mental, that nicotine addiction took on them. All of that, plus seeing them struggle multiple times to quit, made a huge impact on me as a kid.
Another reason I never smoked is because my mom quit when I was a kid, that was a good deterrent all on its own. She'd always smoke outside and stopped when I was seven and tall enough to reach the knives on the counter and make a sandwich. Scared the shit out of her
Same. Probably the biggest reason I never started. My parents never made it look good, and so the kids around me who smoked also wound up not looking good.
The most succesful anti smoking ad I've ever seen was the one where someone goes up to the counter at a sketchy gas station to get a pack of cigarettes and proceeds to PULL OUT THEIR TEETH ON SCREEN WITH A PAIR OF PLYERS.
The most insulting/ revealing thing is, that the 'truth initiative' executives actually believe that the youth only cares about memes and tiktok dances. This couldn't be further from the truth. Young people are more political than ever before. Showing how manipulative, cynical and racist big tobacco is, is a great move and they really should go way further than that. Great video Eddy, beautiful knees!
When I used to watch late night Nick, there was an ad I'd see a lot that actually discussed how Big Tobacco targets poorer and more minority-populated areas. If this ad or more like it were shown, I think a lot of teens would stop.
For anyone trying to quit nicotine: I had to quit nicotine for a surgery. I happened to be on a drug for mental health called Wellbutrin/bupropion. Turns out it’s also a smoking aid cessation drug. I thought quitting nicotine would be the hardest thing of my life but it was actually pretty easy, and I didn’t even know why until I was looking into my meds more. So like… unironically, talk to your doctor about Wellbutrin/smoking cessation meds lol, it might save your life! Having a good, tangible reason to quit also helped quite a bit too.
Key phrase for my quitting cold turkey (cuz I’m stubborn): The urge to smoke will go away *whether you satisfy it or not*. THIS FACT BLEW MY MIND!! I would briefly make myself super-busy whenever I wanted a smoke, and hours would go by before I’d realize I never did get around to it. Next best: You can’t smoke ‘em if you don’t buy ‘em. The decision whether or not to smoke is made at the cash register. Lastly: the length of cigarettes is essentially random. You don’t have to smoke the whole thing if you do decide to light up. Oh, and guilt serves no purpose. Be kind to yourself when you do something difficult.
Good for you, I live with addicts and the main thing at the end of the day we try and drive home is it sucks when you go back and participate using said drug again... But what matters is you keep trying because each time you get further until you won't even feel the need to do so anymore , that it's an uphill battle.
I swear the only way to actually get these anti smoking campaigns to work is through sheer shock therapy. No flashing lights or dances. Show someone dealing with severe lung cancer. Show someone who wasted over thousands of dollars on addiction. Show someone who's baby was damaged by tobacco. Show someone who ruined their house with tobacco stains. Show someone who lost/can't make friends from how disgusting they smell. Show someone's teeth. Show someone who can't be very social or do many social things due to constant smoke breaks. Show someone with those hole in throat machines due to throat cancer. If you show that rather than "#stopvapingchallenge" it not only shows to the audience that you're taking this seriously and you care about them but it also lets the audience know why they should quit or never start. If you make memes or magic tricks on tik tok then it'll obviously make it seem like it's not a big deal or that you're personally insulting the audience's intelligence which gives the opposite result
Truth, thats how its done. Look at the Montana Meth Project- you can find some of their ads on youtube and they are TERRIFYING. In 1999, when MMP started showing ads, meth usage among teens was at 13.5%. A decade later in 2009 it was down to 3.1%. It sucks to scar kids, but fear tactics work and stick with you better than "relatable" content. Trends fade, drug addiction doesn't.
Exactly. When I was growing up i was shown a cancer riddled lung and that scared me to death. I then saw some of my family members die from lung and throat cancer from their smoking. I'm sure as hell not touching that crap.
The "you'll regret it when you're 22" line actually got me. I started smoking because, due to various mental health and social factors, I was pretty sure I wasn't gonna live to see past 30 anyway, so I started smoking because I didn't think I'd live to see the negative effects and fuck it, it looks cool and it calms me down. I realise now I was wrong.
Yeah, I'm 24 years old with mental health issues and 11 years of addiction, I've actually just gotten sober and am realizing that I should quit smoking cigarettes. I never thought I'd be alive at 24 and now I gotta fucking do something with my life. I'm switching to nicotine pods to at least quit tobacco and shit
@@jamesdagiantpeach im really happy for you. hope the pods help and then as soon as you can you move on to non-nicotine or nothing at all. im really glad youre alive and you can always make the most of the time you have now. good luck! sending love and support
Honestly the most effective thing that kept me from smoking was my mother describing how hard it was to quit. She chose to quit before having kids so that my siblings and I could be healthy. I didn't want to have to quit some day, and I didn't want to throw away the incredibly difficult thing my mother had done for me. I guess the lesson here is that emphasizing what it takes to stop smoking can be really effective for some kids.
This was one of the reasons why I never smoked cigarettes, let alone vapes. My mom tried stopping so many times but eventually went back throughout my childhood. Now, after so long, she's gone over a year without smoking. Plus, I never wanted to after hearing how people died from it. One of them was my freatgrand mother. I didn't know her that well but I saw her bf she passed in the hospital and I can't imagine what she went through.
Or family members having to go outside every 10 minutes because they need a cig. Whole house and clothes smelling like smoke & kids at school making fun of you for it. There are so many reasons ppl could touch on that they don't even mention.
My grandmother died from smoking-related complications. She was around 68 and on an oxygen tank 24/7. My mom quit after she died. Sadly, I ended up getting addicted to nicotine at the end of my senior year in high school. I’m still trying to quit.
Idk doesnt seem to work on dumb kids that dont have a sense of mortality yet. Theyve already heard about addiction and lung cancer, they just dont care. All these do is make the adults telling you not to smoke look like goofy out of touch old people and makes smoking feel like more of a rebellion
@@neighbor472 They've heard, but they only don't care because they're not capable of imagining the consequences. If you show them some crumpled up lungs then they get fucking horrified.
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I think the scariest thing about addiction to these sorta things can be the loss of control. I didn't care that I was hurting myself in the long or short term. Maybe even I liked that. But the part that scared me was when I was trying to quit. I realized my addiction was controlling me and I was shackled by it. It's been a few years now and I still get the urge sometimes. Don't get started and stop while you still can.
Personally I think we're going about anti-smoking in completely the wrong way. As an 18-year old who has struggled with a dysthymia for over 8 years now, I always balanced between absolutely never wanting to smoke, because I know how bad it is for you, and really wanting to smoke, because I hated myself and my life and did not see any purpose in keeping myself healthy when I 'knew' I wouldn't live till 18. There is obviously a group within teens who smoke who don't fully understand the risks or who give in to peer pressure and wanting to seem 'cool'. But I think it's also important to shift the focus to mental health. Never before have teens been so exposed to all the bad shit in the world. So much so, that the good in the world gets massively overshadowed. No wonder this generation seems to be the most depressed to date. Most of us have this feeling that there's no point in trying to keep yourself healthy in the long term. What's the point, if our world is breaking down around us? Not just environmentally, but politically as well, the climate is horrendously depressing. Obviously, I did make it to 18, and I am finally on antidepressants after over 4 years of therapy trying everything I can to better my self-image. I still have never smoked a cigarette, and I still never ever want to smoke nicotine. I have smoked weed before, purely because edibles aren't as easily accessible. Right now, being on antidepressants, I do not use any stimulants at all. I think it's useless to tell teens that smoking is bad for you. We know. That's why we do it. I think it's more important to help us *want* to be healthy.
THANK YOUUUU!!! Like yes I see how ads that show how harmful it can be is helpful, but I knowwwww. I just dont care because i dont care about myself or my health.
@@skylerpoduska that's just a dumb fucking reason though to smoke cx I mean you should know that feeling like shit from smoking is never going to help you feel better about yourself and its only downhill from there...... or why commit self harm? How is that going to make you feel any better about yourself? I'll never understand that logic.
@@justinallen2408 mental health issues aren’t logical, my guy. That doesn’t make it any less real to those who struggle with it. People who struggle with mental health don’t need other people to tell them it doesn’t make sense, they know. It’s like Truth trying to tell kids vaping is bad when they already know - this comment is doing the same thing. I can tell it’s well intentioned, but empathy and encouragement does way more to help than trying to logic through it. Anyways, I hope you have a good day today.
Can we bring back the "don't smoke" campaigns that used to scare TF outta Millennials? The people with holes in their throats? The ones who needed to be fed thru a tube? Like those campaigns actually worked.
Hey as a Gen Z we got those too! I remember the commercials with the old people with holes in their throats that had voices that sounded robotic, the images of shriveled up lungs and the ads that depicted people taking out teeth and peeling off skin to pay for a pack of cigs. Im a junior in hs though, and I will say that it's been a minute since I've seen one of those. I do wish they didn't stop airing, I remember being in the 5th grade and worrying about my peers who vaped. That's elementary school where I am!!
There are still pictures of various organs decaying on the pack of evry packet of tobacco I buy. They didn't go away, they just got less shocking over time. They hopefully still have a profound effect when new people see them for the first time, since its mostly kids who we want to stop from smoking. Its a lot easier to stop people from starting than it is to get them to quit.
@@miniamo_ i’m around you age and remember those ads. the closest things i’ve seen to those is a diagram of shriveled up lungs and damaged teeth in my school’s nurse’s office.
Yeah it’s the whole yolo mindset we all have. Tbh sometimes I don’t care when or how I die, and for a long time I was pretty convinced I wouldn’t even live long enough to get cancer. Idk, it’s difficult to stop thinking like that, and it’s usually still the driving factor behind my impulsiveness. Being an adrenaline junkie is fun until you can’t enjoy anything that doesn’t risk your health. So yeah, those ads are scary but at the end of the day the consequences won’t happen for another 40 years or so so ‘why should I care?’.
I smoked for 2 years and just in those 2 years I started coughing up weird mucus, just randomly coughing, experiencing random head aches , head aches after smoking. Things I figured was "normal smoking stuff" but then decided "I literally dont have to do this or deal with this" even today sometimes I'll crave a cigarette even though it's been 4 years and even in that shocks and scares me that these things are so terribly addicting and brain altering.
my dad has been smoking for all his life- he's sixty now. when he was about forty he quit smoking for about four years, tried one one day because he was stressed and he's been smoking a pack a day since. he now has COPD. very good on you for quitting. i don't know but from what i can tell it's very hard to quit.
@@JaxontheOkay ive lived with chronic smokers my whole life and its incredibly difficult to stop especially since it can feel like it helps to alleviate your stress (in my mother's case she stopped smoking a while ago but recently started with cigars) imagine having an urge so strong to smoke a cig it feels like you cant think of anything but that thats how i try to understand it
Headaches could mean you just smoked a little bit too much for your limits or you're just dehydrated. I mean good for you to stop smoking, but that just means you are dehydrated. Smoking can dehydrate you just like drinking a cup of coffee. And the mucus is normal. That's what happens when you smoke. I mean you are having a recreational poison into your lungs. That's essentially how your body is trying to get rid of most of that stuff. The nicotine can be sweat out, but the other chemicals are pretty much released through the mucus. And then your body triggers you to cough so you can get it out of you.
I remember when I was in school, as an “anti-smoking” ad, my teacher just showed us a video about this person who had to cut their jaw off because of smoking/chewing tobacco. It’s one of the only things that stuck with me. Never smoked because I wanted to keep my face. All anti drug ads should be like this, wanna keep your kids from smoking? Show them someone with half their face gone bc they smoked.
I feel like the people really good at the anti-smoking and vaping campaigns is The Real Cost. They start off with an out-there concept or a down-to-earth story then wrap everything up with a fact at the end telling how harmful it is. It does a really good job at conveying why vaping is bad.
My favorite anti-smoking psa was one featuring Superman beating a villain, Nick O'Teen, who was trying to give cigarettes to kids. Basically, Superman violently shakes Nick O'Teen down and I kid you not, throws him into the stratosphere. Nick O'Teen wasn't a super villain that could survive being thrown like a trash bag by Superman, he was just a regular guy that was giving kids cigarettes, he's dead. Superman killed someone in cold blood. Don't give people cigarettes or else Superman will toss you into orbit.
I'm in my 30s where statistically a lot of my classmates did smoke. We grew into our teenage years seeing a lot of these ridiculous anti smoking/drug ads ("this is your brain, this is your brain on drugs. *egg*") that we just made fun of. However I never started smoking despite a lot of friends and relatives doing it, and the biggest reason was that my parents taught me what smoking actually did to the body. They both worked in open heart/cath lab and saw what smoking did to people's bodies and lives. From a young age they laid out the facts and consequences and didnt treat me like I was just a dumb child. They used that method in a lot of other ways and I've carried that with me my whole life. If these anti smoking/drug companies want to do real work they'll lay out the statistics and consequences of smoking in their ads. I now work in cardiology and I can not tell you how many people in their 50s-70s have said their biggest regret was picking up smoking. I had one patient when she found out I had never smoked, begged me to not make the same mistake. Will some kids still do shit despite facts? Yes, but you'll reach a whole lot more minds if you stop treating them like they're fucking idiots who only want to hear music and watch bright colors.
My parents talking to me about how hard it was for them to quit made me never want to try it. My parents were really good about giving me facts about drugs, not just saying “all of them are equally horrible” like health class did, and tobacco was what they warned me against the most.
I’m trying to create my own antivape program in my community using research from a lab that I work in. Seeing videos like this really helps to give insight on how to approach kids in a way that isn’t belittling and actually helps. Thank you!
the ads where the adults showed us holes in their throats and where they squeezed pus out of a blackened lung were traumatizing, but smoking has a traumatizing affect on the human body. people need to see the truth to understand what they’re doing to themselves. i decided i’d never smoke directly after seeing ads like those and i can easily say i never will. a grown man in a dragon onesie isn’t going to affect me like that. the truth initiative is a joke.
It clearly is effective, too, because they started priniting it on all the cigarette boxes. I have 0 clue where one would buy a vape or the gas/liquid? you put in it, but I hope they also print the imagery on that stuff; got a feeling bureaucratic bullshit might've let them circumvent that, tho.
@@imperialguard451 or those ones with a kid opening a box and it contains rotting teeth, or a kid with a USB drive mouth vaping, those ones scared the shot out of me and they were all over the Need For Speed mobile game
it’s difficult because there isn’t much data on long term vape use. you can’t really show someone who has health problems from lifelong vaping when it’s only been around for maybe 10 years.
There would work better. I can also see anti-smoking ads built around highlighting cigarette companies targeting poor and mentally ill people being great.
My uncle smoked his whole life, now he’s in long term care due to lung problems and a brain tumor. As awful as Truth’s campaigns are, PLEASE don’t start smoking.
My grandad just died because he smoked when he was younger and it completely ravaged his lungs. Don't go down that path, it's not just you that your hurting.
My grandpa can’t even walk from a parking lot to a store without losing the ability to breathe. He’s had 2 heart attacks, his tongue had to be lasered back together because he burned it in half and he has fake teeth. All because he smoked, it’s scary what it does to your body
@@zooeyzanger3318 while vaping probably doesn't have the same effects as regular cigarettes it's still bad for your lungs. Its just the fact that they are a new trend so we don't know the long term effects.
One time in high school I asked a friend of mine why she would voluntarily throw herself into a nicotine addiction and she went "oh I'm not addicted, I just like to vape" this was a few days after she'd had us all go to the bathroom with her because she needed to vape. Multiple people told me they vaped because it "helped with their anxiety" apparently having no clue that one of the biggest nicotine withdrawal symptoms is increased anxiety. I also had many people tell me they wanted to smoke, do drugs, get drunk, or have sex just because if they didn't do any of that in highschool they'd feel that they'd "missed out" some even said that highschool is the time to experiment with those things.
I’m not saying it’s the best coping mechanism, but nicotine does ease anxiety. That’s why withdrawal increases it - you write that as if it’s contradictory but it follows logically. that’s how any anxiety medication works too. If you stop taking it suddenly, you’ll suddenly experience the anxiety more because you’re no longer getting the relief. That said, obviously only one of those will give you lung cancer, don’t smoke kiddos, etc.
If you'd bothered to think before posting, you'd recognize that there is a major difference between the effect of nicotine being used, and withdrawal symptoms. Personally, I'm sick to death of ignorant kids ranting about nicotine, without any real knowledge of the subject. You've let yourself be brainwashed, and no one is to blame but yourself.
I once saw a short film that had a young boy being offered a cigarette by some of his friends. He took it, then in the next shot he was a teenager at a party, smoking, when he sees a girl. Then he’s on his first date with this girl and there’s a full ashtray on the table. Then he’s an adult and he’s putting out a cigarette when the woman arrives in a wedding dress. And then he’s anxiously smoking while waiting outside of the hospital room where his wife is having their baby. All these shots lasted maybe three seconds each. Now, cigarette in hand, he’s waving goodbye at his kid going to school. His wife is next to him and she takes his other hand. In the next shot they’re still holding hands and he’s in an hospital bed. There’s a doctor talking. He is bald and really pale. His wife is crying and his son is looking at him from outside the door. Then it went back to the initial shot when he is being offered his fist cigarette and a text appeared. “Would you still take it?”
i got chills reading that. i HATE fear mongering but in cases like getting kids to quit smoking i think its the most effective solution. lung cancer is no joke. i watched my grandma slowly die from it. she smoked so much that i get nostalgic when i smell cigarette smoke. she quit after 63 years and then still got diagnosed with lung cancer and died and it was an awful experience for everybody involved. people sometimes get annoyed by those PSAs, "they're trying to scare us with lung cancer" yeah, because lung cancer is fucking scary! it ruins lives! people die from it and they die in pain, slowly. lots of people with lung cancer die because they drown in the comfort of their own bed, because water fills their lungs! it's really fucked up and terrifying and people should absolutely be scared of it!
@@Sir_Austin_T_Gee please give quitting a shot if you can! I know it's really difficult but your health will be so much better off, and I believe in you 🤝
I started smoking when I was 15, always said I would never quit couse I wouldn't know what to do all the free time as a none smoker, I literally spent most of my day smoking with friends or at dorms, maybe one pack a day , I am officially 22 and I am one year smoke free, now I hate the smell of cigarette smoke 😅 I am quite proud of myself So don't give up, u can do it
I don't know how people can smoke so much everyday ...I started smoking around that age and I'm 25 now ...cigs started completely making me feel like shit ..I would wake up with hangovers from cigarettes headaches that wouldn't go away and sinus problems .. I completely stopped smoking now after getting a sinus infection a few weeks ago
Damn, I mean good for you but a pack a day? I'm way too money conscience for that. The most I can ever smoke is 5 a day.. and even then I really don't smoke tobacco too much lady cuz I've been bit more of a pothead more than anything. Now that is going to stop anytime soon. Hoorah for legalization. And that actually has medical benefits and even if I really wanted to stop smoking smoking, I can still take that without smoking. Though that wouldn't be the same. It just makes life so much better. Like if I had to quit one or the other, I will gladly quit tobacco before I quit the sweet citrussey 🌿
I remember going to an event on New Year’s Eve at my favorite bar with my partner. We were complimenting a woman on her outfit and had a little conversation. Eventually she said she and her group were heading outside to smoke and asked if we wanted to join them. Neither of us smoke, so we said no. And she said “good! Don’t start!” And honestly? That was probably the most effective “anti smoking” thing I’ve experienced in the past decade
I started smoking when I was 12, just because of this. Not only that, but I stopped because a teacher told me clearly that she cared about me and listed every single thing that could go wrong and how I could fall into a drug spiral, and it helped me so much. You've got so many good points talking about this. (I'm now 16, and I've been clear about two years, feel free to call me stupid because I was.)
what a sweet teacher, she really seemed to care about you. i wish every person had someone like that, maybe more people would quit. but instead sometimes the people around encourage it. awesome that u quit too.
You ain't stupid for shit man. I know a lot of guys who started at around 12, received the same kind of help from teachers and still continues even today. You're smart for taking what that teacher had to say to heart. I'm proud of you dude, stay clean!
Marketing to kids is like marketing to an underqualified manager: You don't talk to them on the level they're on, you talk to them with the respect of where they feel they are at with content of where they actually are. Speak to them like adults, but use messaging a teenager would understand.
I quit smoking but I began in high school despite all the ads because at the time I was depressed&suicidal and didn't care about the costs to my body. I knew a lot of people who picked up vaping and smoking around the same time with the same mindset. I wish more ads talked about mental health in conjunction with tobacco use, because its definitely a problem from what I've seen.
This unlocked a core memory- a campaign called Shards o Glass pops- a commercial with ice pops that had glass in them. It was a parody of tobacco companies who tried to sell you something that was obviously terrible for you.
That Truth Ad would’ve been good if it was like “People in college who try cigarettes still smoke 4 years later” and then it’s a guy smoking a cig and referencing dead memes from his college years, still doing the same shit 4 years later.
Literally better writing then the people who wrote that add lol
Or if they showed what happened to his body after 4 years
That would've been much better. He just starts reciting ancient memes and the music stops and everyone just looks at him.
guy just goes "damn, daniel! what are thoooooose?" and the entire party goes silent. honestly just by implying that you'll embarrass yourself if you smoke/vape is much more impactful than "hey if i smoke i get to see funny meme cat"
That’s actually a good idea.
I remember when Nickelodeon would show anti smoking ads with some lady with a cork in her throat and it scared the heck out of me as a kid.
same especially teen nick really?
It’s been a while since I’ve seen it and I still remember vaguely. Might check it out right now...
She passed away btw
When I was in elementary we had this man doing a presentation for the whole school. He had no jaw due to throat cancer. Telling us why smoking is bad. My school was seriously messed up but it worked 😳
was her name Terry? because if it was, I remember her. she seemed nice
The anti-smoking ads that had the lady with a hole in her neck permanently scarred me as a child. Those were effective.
Same. They need to do more shit like that
Or the one where the teens pay for cigarettes by removing teeth and skin
@@a.m.keller3241 Holy shit those use to scare the shit out of me when I was young
HeilSquadW Ikr all those adds scared me so much when i was a kid
those definitely fucked me up. seeing all those people with holes in their throat, and then the end of the ads when they said they died shortly after filming at like age 55.
The most effective anti-smoking campaign for me growing up (as a millennial) was actually a school assembly. This guy came to my school and didn't talk at all about the health effects of smoking; but rather how terrible and corrupt tobacco companies are. I never had the desire to smoke anyway, but learning that tobacco companies are the ACTUAL devil really drove it home for me.
They really cant say that anymore though, the tobacco companies can no longer advertize except that their product causes cancer and birth defects. So in reality they are just selling a product that the buyer knows is addictive and bad but make that choice either because they are already addicted or just decided that they dont care abt the negative effects and want to feel the few possitive effects of the product much like what people do with alcohol
I live in NC, the idea of that happening here is laughable with how much influence big tobacco still has here
They are also the ones paying for truth and jel
@@toastedt140 Oh yeah -- both Carolinas have been known as the tobacco states, mainly North Carolina though. I like this state, there are so many good things about it, but we have an awful government.
@@andrewmiller5794 all over the (outside us) world they still find ways to get ppl smoking/vaping and also in the us with packaging and ad venues.
“Quit smoking or we’ll keep making cringe meme commercials” is a pretty strong message...
If that doesn’t work idk what will
Would work on me
What they should do is have all cringey stuff actually involve smoking the vapes, because that's how ridiculous vaping looks to non-vapers
you can block them right?
Heyo one topic
The most effective anti-smoking ad for me was that every smoker I've ever met says they're trying to quit and not succeeding.
Yup. I tried quitting three times before I actually succeeded, and that was only because I didn't have access to smokes anymore.
Quitting is easy not starting again is hard
Seconded. I have never known a smoker that hasn't repeatedly tried to quit.
Regret is synonymous with addiction.
@@mjotaku1856 that's me right now, I'm 20 but most stores in black neighborhoods don't care about about age and will sell you Lucy's and black and mild and vapes if you just ask right. It wasn't until I moved to live with my gf for a while that I was able to quit, I'm like 5 months clean off smoking now and I'm so happy but I still struggle, Smoking is no joke.
@@allsmiles7106 I'm so proud of you! you're doing amazing, keep it up
I don’t smoke because I swallowed a smoke alarm when I was young so if I smoke it’s really loud
Underrated comment.
Your pfp looks like a smoker lmao
Someone should invent digestible fire alarms that last a couple of months. Would be really effective.
same
Same
As someone who works with kids, my number one philosophy is not treat children as adults, but treat them as human beings. They aren’t stupid and they are incredibly good at figuring out when they’re being talked down to.
That’s what I’ve been saying for years and even as a kid. No one understands we’re all just humans. Now children 3-9 may not see eye to eye, but 10-17 definitely do.
Exactly.
(Long rant ahead I am very sorry)
Why does it feel like people only see human beings as either children or adults- there are many shades of gray and even children can understand MOST things if you explain honestly! Especially twelve and onward. Why do people think "teenage angst" is so common? It can't ALL be hormones. A lot of it is because of the lag between a teen becoming "smarter" (or at least more aware) and basically having to wait out the next six years until ANYONE will take them seriously. Not saying middle schoolers should vote or something crazy like that, but people will really treat you like you're incapable of forming opinions or having basic comprehension because you're not a legal adult. Everyone older than thirty I ever talk to is all empty words about how I'm "smart" or whatever but the second I actually HAVE something to say they don't care. It's obvious they only look at test scores (very narrow skillset) and IQ (in my opinion not an accurate measurement at all). They don't think I'm SMART, not really; I'm just a wonderful statistic, a lovely high point on a graph that doesn't matter. Can't wait for 2025- maybe when I'm 18 people will think I'm worth listening to 🫠
@@lays5277
teenage angst? more like teenage (w)angst!
@@iamnothale haha. What
(I do not understand what this means)
@@lays5277 The unfortunate part is just because you turn 18 doesn't mean people will take you seriously, maybe you could boss around minors but until you are 30 you will be considered a young immature adult who knows next to nothing about life.
The IQ I fully agree with. It reminds me of that one friend I've had who was always into logic puzzles and chess. He enjoyed the shit out of them, it was his hobby, just solving logic puzzles and participating in local chess tournaments against basically only adults. Despite having an IQ over 160 (Would never remember exact number, but it was way too high for a teenager) he has always held an opinion that "IQ tests only measure how well people solve IQ tests". Which you know checks out, IQ tests are practically logic puzzles... unless I'm an idiot that is and have never seen a real one.
The best anti-drug message I ever got was from one of my teachers. She passed out the calculators and had us count up how much it costs to smoke a pack a day for a week, a month, or a year. Then she handed out newspaper ads and asked us to cut out all the cool shit we'd rather buy with that amount of money.
That stuck with me harder than the photos of black lungs. I didn't have a good grasp of my own mortality, but I understood money well enough to know I'd rather have the iPod.
The most impactful Anti-Drug thing for me was probably The Main event in TNA's Paper View Victory Road 2011, Jeff Hardy nearly destroyed his career cuz he got too high before his match against Sting, the only reason it didn't destroy his career is cuz it's Jeff Hardy, but seeing how he ruined a match he was looking forward to his entire life, and so I never want to take anything addictive ever from seeing that
Absolutely, when I realized that I just couldn't phantom how I could keep up with any videogames or just nice stuff.
Now with these vapes you can even go the extra mile and spend just to have something that can smoke something in a "cool" way.
thats such a good teacher
I'm such a materialistic person that that hits alot harder for me. Smoking has like no benefits at all vs if I spend $10 even on like earbuds at least those will have more added value than a pack of smokes. Pizza is unnecessary when you could be eating a healthier meal BUT at least pizza is food and will give you some nutritional value vs a vape which is also bad but has no nutritional value. So to me smoking is an expensive habit that like has no added value at least smoking cigarettes. Nicotine really does nothing for you vs marijuana can have actual benefits to a person.
@@shuddabinswollode Yep.
“Ayo no vapes check” feels like a super upbeat contraband sweep
Just the "coolest" camp counselor
Ayo no shanks check
I was imagining a prison warden busting some fat moves while searching under a prisoners matress
"Ayo, no water bottles check" is the TSA version
Ayooo no home made crack pipe check
So, fun fact - a lot of if not all tobacco companies are required by law to fund anti-smoking ads, so it’s not uncommon for anti-smoking ads to be used to secretly advertise smoking. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that the “this ad is so cringy, I’m going to smoke out of spite” mentality is intentional.
yeah I feel like this video really glossed over the fact that this whole Truth organization is funded indirectly by tobacco companies. Which also run their own anti-smoking campaigns. Cig companies running anti-cig campaigns, sounds honest right?
What a stupid idea.
@@genodedemon5109 what a rude person
100% agree. I don't remember specifics of truth initiative commercials from 10-15 years ago, but I do remember that they always, always, always made me want to go spite-smoke when I saw them on TV. I wouldn't at all be surprised if this org got money from tobacco companies to make these commercials; wish the video went into more detail there
@@megmazzle its funny because anecdotally I see many people saying exactly what you said. I dont' smoke often, maybe a pack a month, so idk if I'm their target audience but I always remembered the cool kids at the parties with the girls smoking...and then the boring kids going home to do something else. what would you choose? lol
The reason I’ve never done coke is because my guitar teacher very seriously told me that it’s amazing, and if I start, I’ll never want to stop. If they stop underestimating teens, they can actually do some good.
Coke makes you awake, overconfident and talk to much. I've never done coke because that is 3 things I love so I would never stop and everyone would hate me because those 3 things already make up a huge part of my personality
@@aender13lmao same here.
@@aender13 spittttinnn
I mean, teens are stupid since the info is already out there and they still do it...
Your guitar teacher prob has ADHD, everyone I have ever known with a coke problem was ADHD as fuck, signed, I take baby amphetamines as a medication prescribed by my doctor lmao
I don't know if this was just a small town Canada thing, but when the anti-smoking people came into my elementary class with a pig's lung and trachea to show us how cigarettes do ya dirty... I felt that.
OMG you're one of the last people I'd expect to be here, but yeah I think that may have just been a Canadian thing, I know over in the northeast USA would have the anti-smoking people come over and we'd play like games and stuff to demonstrate what would happen if you smoked.
Yes I'm in Texas they did that to us
@@powercord2.076 I'm in Texas too but they never did that for us. Wonder why.
Dare lmao
Yes I had it in Ontario once. Never shown again (probably children)
in 5 more years, when the meme dries off completely, they’ll be saying “Smoking is not pogchamp. What are you, a Big Tobacco simp?”
what if we kissed 😳 while not vaping 😳
Why not start referring to nic kids as big tobacco simps now?
It’s PogChamp btw
@@anonymoususer7154 i don't do twitch chat, i'm sorry I offended you.
@@Tryonic The fuck is pogchamp?
Ironically, the anti-smoking ads we all remember are
1) the ones with seriously ill people
2) the ones with adults. For some reason we’re more affected by the ones who relate to our future selves than our present selves
all I remember is the movie "thank you for smoking" in which a lobbyist has an attempted assassination done where the cover him in nicotine patches to try and make him OD but he survived because he's so used to it and then gets to go on tv and say "smoking saved my life" and I'm just now realizing how ridiculous that movie was......
also suffered from the same thing watchmen does, he's supposed to be the bad guy but he's the protagonist so you inherently try to sympathize with him.
i think its because they're so real. they used to be children, teenagers, and young adults who started smoking, and now that theyre older that addiction has caught up with them and caused cancer and other health impacts. for all of these truth ads with giant monsters made of metal to represent the metal from cigarette smoke that you can inhale or that creepy one where the teenagers mouths are turned into ports for vapes, NONE are as effective as showing the actual truth. real people who have had surgeries or lost love ones because of smoking, and the detriments to their health are visible and tangible and understandable things to a young person who has started or is thinking about smoking
yet they still don't really work. seeing what can happen if you smoke multiple packs a day for years isn't gonna make teens say no when offered a cig because that's just the extreme of cigarette addiction
Bruh that’s all I remember, the chick with a hole in her throat, and those creepy as Smokey the bear ads where everything was made out of matches
I honestly think about those anytime I wanna smoke, so they work?
One time we had an anti weed PSA when I was about 16. Shit was real. It didn’t make weed out as the devil, it just showed slowly how weed makes teenagers change priorities and inhibit their success. It was the story of a relatively young lad who inhibited himself in college because he started smoking hella weed. It was the best one I’ve ever seen because it was so realistic
I miss that brief period of time where vaping was a cringey thing to do in itself
Here here
It is again. At least around me. People still vape, but they don’t vape because it’s cool, they vape because they’re addicted. I don’t know many people that recently started vaping/smoking because all the kids that are addicted realize it’s shitty and told other kids it’s shitty
@@michaelpugh2617 it’s a good thing that the vaping marketing was put to rest as quickly as it was, I think that’s a big part of why it slowed down, but it’s awful to know there are still young adults out there slowly getting out of high school and college who will start to really feel the consequences soon.
@@Jackenack If it wasn't for e-cigarettes, I would still be smoking today. I managed to switch to vaping a few years ago (not to quit, just because I wanted to try it), and I actually completely quit smoking cigarettes because of that, which inspired me to fully quit nicotine by switching to nicorette gum. Now I'm down to just 1 piece of gum a day, and pretty soon I'll be totally nicotine-free. I guess what I'm trying to say is that vaping is still a really helpful tool for adults. I genuinely never planned on quitting smoking, so the fact that simply trying an e-cigarette gave me that extra push and the confidence I needed to actually quit using nicotine entirely is really awesome. I guess I'm just afraid that people are starting to support the idea of getting rid of e-cigarettes entirely, so I want to remind people that there are a lot of adults who depend on them, and who would be smoking multiple packs of cigarettes a day without the option to vape instead.
@@orchdork775 keep it up! I hope you’re nic free soon
Honestly, the best anti-smoking ad for me is having a mother who smokes. She’s generally pretty healthy which I’m thankful for, but you can tell she hates smoking and that it’s hard for her to stop even though she wants to
omg give her a hug for me
Has she tried using an e-cigarette? I tried using one a few years ago, and I was actually able to successfully switch from smoking 2 packs a day to only using the e-cigarette. That experience even gave me the confidence to try getting off nicotine entirely, so I officially quit vaping 4ish months ago and started using nicorette gum, and now I'm down to just one piece of gum a day!
I really think vaping is worth trying if she would be up for it. I can even give some reccomendations on what ecig and eliquid to get if you want! I switched using a $30 ecig, so it doesn't need to be expensive or anything!
Also, if she does ever decide to try quitting a more traditional way, there are organizations that will offer free counseling/support and even free or discounted nicorette gum and patches, so make sure to research online or ask a primary care doctor for a reccomendation if she ever decides to quit!
@@orchdork775 i do recall her talking about switching to vaping at some point. I’d have to bring it up with her again to know her opinion on switching now.
I’m so sorry. This is a touching comment, and I hope your mom gets better.
There's a number of recourses these days that offer help. If she wants to quit, she doesn't have to do it alone
As a non US citisen, our anti smoking campaigns are literally just slogans like "smoking kills" or just a picture of lung cancer.
Accurate. They made weed legal in my country. That helped switched ppl. Less toxic.
It used to be like that, but for some god awful reason they’re trying to stay hip with the kids while all you to do is scarred them
we used to have those types of ads in america too. i grew up with them and they scared me enough to never consider smoking. some of them were absolutely scarring. those types of ads are less common now though, even though they really shouldn't be :/
@@iciajay6891 weed isn't very good for teens as well, it affects brain development.
Im going for u live in Canada too then
Fun fact: a different anti-vaping campaign (I think it’s called like the facts now or something) made a horror game where you have to go through rooms quickly to escape an insane asylum or be left to rot. It isn’t until the very end though that it tells you that this is what vaping is like.
Some quick looking around I think it's called "One Leaves" I wanna play it!
@@melwasnevergivenanamethank you for your tine researching!! I will play it as well
I have played that game, and it is a decent horror game, right until the end. then it's just an anti-smoking ad.
One leaves? Its legitimately the worst horror game ive played but the reviews are hallarious its f2p irrc so theres that ig
This video might actually have a bigger impact on getting people to stop than the campaigns
That is so true
Roomie? Huh
Hey roomie
Whoaaa rommie
Most definitely.
“You don’t want anti-smoking campaigns to become cringy in kids heads because then vaping becomes cool and not vaping becomes not cool” Truth & D.A.R.E don’t get it tho. You broke it down perfectly, hopefully they see this lol
oh my god truth or dare
lulu whatchu doin here 👀😂
Lulu upload bish
Also treats kids like their morons though. Theyre not that dumb.
@@evlineeee this just killed me how did i never see this growing up with all of it shoved in my face
Conspiracy: truth is actually owned by big tobacco to reverse psychology kids to smoke
I could see this being true
It is funded by big tobacco
it is funded by the tobacco industry though.
yes stonks
While I won’t deny the possibility of this being true, the argument that it’s being funded by big tobacco doesn’t really hold water. Back when those companies were first called out for targeting kids and just in general lying about the health risks of smoking, the ruling from the government was basically “for every tobacco ad a company puts out, an anti -smoking PSA must be played directly after and those ads must be funded by said company” and while there aren’t as many smoking ads nowadays, when there’s something like the truth initiative it has to be funded at least in part by big tobacco.
This is so interesting bc the only Truth ads I see on tiktok are the creepy, vaguely threatening videos that have real facts. This is entirely different, it’s crazy how brands do that and it’s crazy how good the algorithm is that it shows such differently toned things to people who engage in different content
Yeah I was just about to comment this. The one that stays with me is the one that ends with “... but nothing is scarier than the truth.” I’ve never seen these super cringe ones lmao. The facts truly are scary, let that do the talking lol.
This video is many years old. I don't think the clips in the video are circulating any more
I think this is mostly upsetting bc they're acting like just bc they're kids/teens that it'll be "easy" for them to quit. They're not taking what kids go through seriously
Peer pressure is what they go through.
@@Iemons Life is what they go through. Social expectation, stress about school, stress about when they aren’t in school, family stress, work stress. And a friend just goes “relax for like a few hours” and they say “Okay. That sounds nice.”
U sound so understanding I wish there was more adults like u😕
Ya seriously I started just before 12th grade and I instantly regretted it but what was I supposed to do? I was dealing with so much stress between covid-19 and graduating, to applying for university, to saving up money and working my ass off so that I could AFFORD university, that after all that, I just couldn't justify quitting vaping at the moment and essentially doubling down on my stress and anxiety. Kids know how bad and expensive it is for them but for most teenagers, life is already too stressful to add combatting an addiction to that list. We need more support and guidance and less preaching and shaming.
I'm so angry that corporations are so greedy that theyll destroy kid's lives. It feels like a movie villain plot: we'll target the kids and get them hooked on drugs because they're young and moldable and then we'll be RICH
it's absolutely evil
Eddy’s reminds me of my older brother that moved out like 4 years ago but when he comes to visit it’s like he never left at all. Basically I’m always happy to see him regardless of how long I have to wait, and it’s as if he never left in the first place when he comes back!
Truuuuuu
Eddy's just like everyones big brother at this point
he legit looks like mine too 😭
Yo that’s happening to me irl
Same
The only anti smoking campaign that ever worked on me was the old people with holes in their throats doing daily tasks.
Ikr, that was so scary just hearing their voice; it seriously scared me
especially the one with the puerto rican dude who can't go swimming anymore
Same..I never ever smoked in my life but as a young child with a father who smoked regularly that ad terrified me!!!
I didnt wanna end up like that or see my dad like that
Like please less cheap dancing, shaming, and memes, more facts about how this stuff actually affects you
Same here man except I didn't see the ad. I was working a part time job and I served this dude who had had a hole in his throat. It's a horrible thing to see up close. I still smoke occasionally but I actually managed to stop for a good while after seeing that
They're actually pretty bad now, you can't take them seriously. For whatever reason, don't any, or minimal statistics. What worked on me was good parents and health class. They showed me pictures of smoker's lungs, lung/throat/mouth/etc cancer, and statistics.
As a little girl in elementary school, they showed us a model of a human mouth that had been smoking vs a healthy mouth. That alone made me know I never wanted to put those cancer sticks near me. No fuzzy tongue and yellow teeth for me please! I don’t see how they expect these tiktok videos to work. Like you said, the facts are the best way to go about anti smoking campaigns. Being cringe just makes kids wanna vape out of spite.
I never smoke and brush my teeth everyday but my teeth are still yellow...
@@richhornie7000everyone’s teeth are naturally a little yellow, but if your teeth are overly yellow, you could definitely try whitening toothpaste and/or whitening strips. Those work.
@@richhornie7000 if you drink soda it may be that. when i drank soda my teeth were just constantly yellow! 2 years free 😊
@@twotruckslyrics don't do that either, I guess losing genetics lottery. Well, who gives a shit so long as I don't get cancer 😂
@@richhornie7000 It is because the dentin layer beneath the enamel is naturally yellow. The color of the dentin is barely visible for some while in others who have thinner enamel the yellow shade appears more visible.
*When your a fan of Eddys Content but you are also the magician in the Truth Ad*.....😂
Oh my god dude I am so sorry
damn
To be fair your magic was pretty cool
what you do is great! the ad just made no sense
fuckin RIP
When I was a smoker, a lot of the really shamey anti-smoking ads would just make me want to have a cigarette because the shame kind of makes you feel resigned to being a smoker. It’s a lot of self hate.
The one ad that really worked for me was one about a teen girl and all the times she would have to withdraw from her friends to go smoke, essentially like “you just got all this freedom and now you’re giving it all up again,” because it kind of reminded me like, hey my time is valuable and I’ve been choosing to spend it in a way that pulls me away from what I really love. That worked so much better on me than “EW SMOKERS ARE SO GROSS” because then I’d just be like “yup” and I’d go smoke.
TL;DR don’t smoke
@@bold-comedy9232 NO WAYYY ITS THAT EZ 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😤😤😤😤😤😤😎😜🥵🥵🥵
Omg same, one ad that hit home for me was the kid who was watching tv with his family and then he had to get up and smoke and was watching them enjoying themselves without him from through the window.
I'm a social smoker, and sometimes use it as fuel like people do with caffeine, but I've never had a dependency, i always hated my family members going outside every few hours, 30 minutes, 5 minutes, etc because they needed a cigarette
Smoking is a good way to give me an excuse to not be around people🤣
The most effective anti-smoking ad I ever saw was a testimonial--not from a smoker, but from a man who'd gotten lung cancer from second hand smoking. It really drove home that smoking doesn't just hurt you; it hurts the people around you, too.
the problem is that, people who smoke, do not really care about stuff
@@jeppy4021 what does that even mean? smokers are people with feelings and empathy too. one of my closest friends, the kindest guy. i know hands down, has struggled to quit smoking for 2 years and he apologises to people around him whenever he has one. don't dehumanise addicts and say "they don't care about things"
@@waspswarm870 @Anton Noonan If they really cared, then they wont be smoking in public where there are children too who could inhale the smoke... second degree smoking cancer exists.
@@waspswarm870 they could very well smoke indoors and get lung cancer alone... My close relative has gotten a second degree lung cancer from inhaling smoke. So I hate smokers with a burning passion.
@@jeppy4021 ok you seem very young. all i'll say is don't hate an entire group based on the actions of one, and don't hate people for having addictions. cravings can happen at any time, also if you're in public you can't smoke indoors, it's illegal?
I grew up in a non-smoking home. My dad had quit smoking when my older brother was born and only picked it back up after I (the youngest) turned 16. Growing up, he ate a lot of those nicotine gums and pills and stuff. I didn't understand why until I realized he was doing it for his kids. He didn't want us to start smoking too, so he held back until he knew it wouldn't affect us as much anymore.
The first time I saw him smoke, I was shocked. I'm the only child living at our home (I am an adult now tho) and he has still never smoked full on I front of me. He just does it when he goes for a walk or takes out the dog. I'm really grateful for him
Growing up I had a friend who's mom was a smoker. It wasn't to the point where their house would smell or anything, but I do remember one conversation I had with that friend. I think we were playing house, and she had one of those candy cigarettes or pipes and said she wanted to start smoking when she was an adult like her mom. Sure enough, when we became teenagers, she started smoking and we kinda drifted apart after that (for other reasons).
The environment you grow up in affects whether you'll smoke or not as much or even more than the friends you have. Parents need to set examples for their kids, and kids need to know all the risks of vaping and smoking. My country is trying to become smokeless in the future and I really hope that can happen one day.
Eddy really pinpointed the hardest part about being a teen in the modern era. They’re treated like children and expected to act like adults.
Being an adult would mean you recognize that most "dangers" about vaping are just BS and not supported by any actual statistics. No, they are treated like children and expected to think on the level of children; don't ask questions, just do what we say because we know what is best for you.
Don’t be condescending or pandering. The most affective way to get to people is to talk to them on their level.
@@Antiformed the reason why there aren’t many stats on vaping is because it’s so new. Studies are still being done. Don’t be so quick to dismiss it’s potential danger as we don’t fully know everything
@@Antiformed we still don't know the long-term effects. I'm an adult and I have vaped and smoked since I was 16. I know it's bad for me, but I honestly feel like I can't start the day without it. I'm admitting this to you and to myself for the first time. I have an addiction.
@@bea4790 I'm sorry you're going through that. I really hope you can overcome your addiction (whenever you feel you're ready ofc) you got this
"the real cost" ones on snapchat honestly guilted me into stopping because they showed like gross anatomical shit that i was like "damn yeah thats like actually my body" so i stopped. shits morbid but it works
I think morbid & stuff that plays with your emotions is the way to go with these campaigns. You either want to be completely disgusted or driven to tears because of real stories.
Congrats on quitting!
the real cost is such a good campaign it not only SHOWS what happens but also tells the facts
i'm so proud of you for quitting! its hard but i believe in you :))
Nice job on quitting
"The real cost" ads are the only ones that actually had an impact on me.
Especially the one with the package and the teeth
Remember the one with the whole beauty and majestic lookin smokers and then it switched to the guy in a wheelchair and on life support.
Man that shit scared me
Yeah that scared the crap out of me when I was little
They did have an almost horror movie look to them...thus leaving an impact
@@Abigail_Thoma remember it
YES I thought I was the only one who remembered those they use to scare me
One of the anti smoking ads from my childhood that really stuck with me was one of the "Real Cost" commercials, where the girl in the ad is signing a contract giving away her freedom and allowing the cigarettes to run her life. I think those work so well because they're really driving home the message that you're slowly becoming a slave to this addiction. And teens want to be free.
Agreed, i don't think the "Real Cost" campaign just in general will ever leave my skull. Idk why, but the ones that have stuck with me the most are the ones where they forced you to listen to a viscerally unpleasant sound (looking at you here, teeth chewing other teeth)
Those ads by "The Real Cost" scarred me as a kid.
ikr
Those still freak me out lol
I will never smoke because of them.
Those are the ones that work
im still a kid but they don't really scare me, they're just a reminder that so many unfortunate people my age fell into their own addictions.
I remember when I was 10 I was watching a Minecraft TH-cam video and an add plays beforehand. It had a woman in it with a vocalizer because her throat was destroyed because she smoked. There wasn’t anything flashy, they weren’t any memes, just someone who was hurt and scared by smoking. That video instantly made me never want to smoke. Kids aren’t stupid. Tell them what will happen and they will listen.
I feel like they should go the route of Alcohol commercials, pure shock of what could happen; i once saw this one where a kid dropped his glass of milk because his father was a drunk driver.
Also, the amount of pure horror they put on Canadian smoke boxes is astonishing, it's straight up nasty.
Yeah I will never forget Terri from NC, that’s etched in my brain forever. Powerful ad
@@Vessel-pl1dg the pics on the cigarette packs are gross yet the people who smoke aren't afraid of it. Not something I could understand.
@@sydnerxx My mom is a smoker and I can confirm these pictures on Canadian smoke boxes terrified me as a child. Although I don’t think it’s easy for someone addicted to stop like that so that probably explains why they don’t seem to care
saw it on tv too scary but effective
The CDC anti-smoking commercials used to scare me as a kid when they played at night...like the old woman with the voice box. Shit haunted my dreams
same i understand that fear tactics work but some of them are truly disgusting and I would rather not be subjected to seeing them
@@Jess-uu3ip I believe that is the point friend
@@Jess-uu3ip that's kinda the point
"They told me tobacco wasn't addictive."
_Puffs a cig through her neck hole_
"Why would they say that?"
I get those as youtube ads now and I _dont even smoke_ I'm always sorry to whoever's video I'm on when I inevitably hit the skip button
i’m 16, and i switched to vapes when i got sober off of harder substances, honestly i think what would help is the support, the kindness, it’s really hard to get clean when you have a bunch of adults being mad at you or patronizing you for it. You absolutely are on the right track :)
What drugs
Happy to hear you've made positive changes and good luck continuing your journey.
I wish you luck on your journey, Godspeed my dude, Godspeed.
I'm a 36 year old addict. I've been on and off drugs pretty much my entire life. Went from pills in my teens to heroin. Been playing music my entire life and put years and years of work into being good at it and pretty much ruined every opportunity I had to make it a career.
If you're 16 and already realized you had a problem and got sober GOOD FOR YOU! Absolutely no adult should be patronizing you they should be fucking proud of you for being mature enough to realize you had a problem and wanted help. It took me being 30 before I finally started realizing it.
Super proud of you. Remember that recovery is not linear. Don't beat yourself up if you ever slip or hate yourself for it. Wish you nothing but the absolute fucking best in life!
Trying to quit vaping but I’m 15
As a athletic kid in my high school years I got hooked on smoking, I have struggled all through my twenties to quit. I've smoked on and off even trying vapes, chew and gum. I also went thought the dare program and got hooked on heroin at 19, they never warned us about doctors prescribing opiates. Had pain issues at 18 and got prescribed continuous amounts of vicoden and oxycodone. I had never touche a hard drug in high school till i saw that fuckin doctor. After over a decade later im finally getting back to my healthy self. Your spot on the money Eddy! I wish you were around in the early 2000's to make a video... Maybe i would have listened
you should be very proud of yourself. sobriety is hard. Just know this random stranger is proud of u !
My stepmom got hooked on lortabs when I was younger because a shitty doctor prescribed her insane amounts of them. I remember visiting her in rehab. I remember seeing her eyes finally have some life in them. I felt like I was raising my little brother for a while because she was always sleeping. I didn’t know who she was. She’s clean now and I’m so proud. I know it’s hard. I hate that happened to you. Hopefully that doctor got their license taken. We’re all so proud of you ❤️
Yeah these new ads now make 10 year olds think cigarettes are safer than Vapes
Poor guy, I know a few people who have struggled with opiates after being prescribed them. Buffy Sainte-Marie has a song called "Cod'ine" about her experience getting hooked on prescription meds (back in the 60's!)
If you like folk music you might like it, it's a good song.
dude, I’m so proud of you for getting sober! you’re doing a great job!
I actually teared up at the people reading the quotes. THATS powerful. I remember Truth doing things when I was a kid, where they had a commercial and everyone collaped in Time Square or something like that and it was supposed to represent how many people died every few minutes from smoking.
You don't need flashy dances, this is an instance where you just need the truth. Kids are much smarter than they're given credit for.
Yup. My family has an issue of heart issues and recently my uncle passed away. My dad had 6 brothers, and the one that passed was one of the youngest. And the ONLY difference between him and the others? He smoked. If that's not enough to scare both my brother and I, I'm not sure what would be. My grandpa also smoked, and died from lung cancer when I was 2. My grandma, on the other hand, has never smoked and she's still kicking at 94. Fuck cigarettes/nicotine/whatever.
Oh ya. They had 1200 people surround a major tobacco corporation building and had them all collapse and “die.” They also did another one where they filled up 1200 body bags and piled them up around a major tobacco company building (maybe the same one)
There aren’t the statistics yet for the effects of vaping for them to have those commercials
Truth was created by the tobacco industry itself.
Yea, if kids our old enough to smoke their old enough to know why its bad. Ik 12 years olds who vape
The anti smoking ads that was the girl peeling her skin to get cigarettes scared the shit out of me.
Yeah, the best way to get kids to stop doing something is to scare them.
IM GETTING TRAUMATIZED ALL OVER AGAIN JUST READING THIS
Or the dude with pliers pulling out his teeth
It was the teeth for me
Yeah that ad and like the one where someone paid for their pack with their teeth. Those kept me away from cigarettes but not I vape so I guess it wasn’t THAT effective oops
I'm a 16 year old that quit smoking weed, vaping and drinking liquor about like 5 months ago, and I can honestly say that it wasn't any anti-smoking campaign that got me clean, it was myself. I found a passion, which was working out and making music, and now I'm a lot happier than I was. Truth should focus on what to do, rather than what NOT to do, because putting the situation in a positive context and looking for the next step is a lot more effective than just avoiding the negative. There is a way out of addiction.
All my anxious friends vape, even if they swore they wouldn't, we should have been encouraged to go to the doctor, we're not weak for feeling anxious.
I'm anxious too and I like to listen to music, sit outside, do puzzles with my nephew, and chew gum. I have been feeling a lot better. I also am going to pursue ADHD diagnosis.
@@xSwordLilyx Exactly man, there are few cases where people vape "just cuz." I mean there are ofc, but most people are dealing with something and trying to forget about it, or self medicate to deal with something like anxiety or depression, which is what I was doing. I'm glad you made the decision to quit, it gets easier with time. Definitely pursue getting an ADHD diagnosis, I was actually diagnosed when I was like 7 years old, which I'm really grateful for. If you can, I'd also recommend going to therapy, or meditating, just doing whatever you can to take care of your mental health
Hey, I just wanna say that I’m super proud of you for quitting!
The hell kind of home life do you have that allows you to drink and do drugs...
@@RedTail1-1 it wasn't allowed in my household, it's just that substances are suprisingly available, and even target towards kids nowadays. There are plenty of people I know that specifically sell weed and alcohol to highschoolers, cuz they'll pay more for it. It's disgusting.
As a teen, I'm convinced truth is secretly funded by vape companies using reverse psychology to get us to vape. Those ads are just SO out of touch.
They are funded by Tobacco companies and make anit-vape stuff because they want people to smoke cigarettes and tobacco rather than nicotine-only alternatives.
Edit: didn't think I needed to spell it out for people, the second part of this is cynical and sarcastic not meant to claim some ridiculous Pizzagate type conspiracy
@@bkquidler009 source
@@Moony1568 The Truth Initiative was made as a result of a law suit (called the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement) from 46 US states and 5 territories to get the Tobacco industry to pay back medicaid spending on sick smokers. The Tobacco industry settled to pay billions in perpetuity, and part of that goes to the Truth Initiative.
truthinitiative.org/who-we-are/our-history/master-settlement-agreement
www.publichealthlawcenter.org/topics/commercial-tobacco-control/commercial-tobacco-control-litigation/master-settlement-agreement
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Initiative
This is the conspiracy I need lol, and I’d believe honestly
@Justin B I know that the company existed before vapes, and I didn't say they were designed to promote cigarettes and be anti-vaping or that tobacco companies have a say in they're programs. I'm being cynical and hyperbolic because they do a lot less anti-cigarette stuff now and focus on anti-vaping ads. I'm not claiming any conspiracy, but the links I posted support my claim about funding and talk about how they were made and funded by and because of tobacco companies (one of the sources being the Truth Initiative's own website). I don't think it's some conspiracy, I just think it's a bad look that they aren't focused on their original goals anymore, and my point is more that the very informative and effective anti-tobacco ads, like the few Eddy talked about are a lot less common now than the absurd and intentionally abstract anti-vaping ads they make more of.
The best anti smoking commercials are the ones that are borderline grotesque. I remember seeing one were a girl teen is trying to buy a pack of cigarettes, and she doesn't have enough money, so she peels off her skin to pay for them. This shows how smoking can cause bad effect on your body. I was scared so much, I decided I would never smoke. That is what works. Not putting cringy memes and dancing with no meaning.
The one that always stuck with me was the one showing the social pressures of smoking throughout the years with jazzy music....then it ends with the beat turning into a heart monitor and a crippled person talking about how smoking killed them.
there’s one going around now where this teen guy is delivered a horrible set of teeth/gums and then it switches to his mouth... f*king unsettling af. I’ve been against smoking for a long time but I see why it’s the kind of stuff that works.
Oh yeah I remember that one there was also one where a guy pulled out his tooth with a pair of pliers to pay for his cigarettes
@@Rigiroony I love that ad so much, it showed up on nearly every DVD my family rented. I thought the transitions are neat and did a great job portraying how media likes showing smoking. What really got to me was the ad of the people with holes in their throats and giving advice on how to cope with it.
@@Rigiroony pls dont say "cr*pple", it's a slur for disabled people
One of the best anti-smoking campaigns I've ever seen came out a few years ago. It was this actor, an older guy at that point, who had played supporting roles in numerous popular kids' and teen movies. No funny memes or anything, just him, in his living room, on a chair.
He starts talking about how much he smoked, and then says that he's now suffering from late-stage lung cancer. He just openly declares that he's dying, and it's because he decided to start smoking. He finishes by asking, that the viewer doesn't smoke almost pleading the viewer to not kill themselves basically
He ended up dying of lung cancer shortly after.
I vaguely remember one where they’re interviewing a smoker and the reveal that he had died shorty after the interview from it. I never thought about it but now I realize that’s probably a large part why I never wanted to smoke. Even with vapes, I think they look stupid but I can’t deny that I still remember those commercials.
The main thing that made me afraid of smoking was my grandpa dying of lung cancer at the pretty young age (in terms of death) of 46. I wasn’t even BORN when he died and I’m still terrified of becoming a smoker.
Holy shit I remember that
What a strong message to go out on
The one I remember actually terrified me as a kid. I vaguely remember it but it was talking about how bad Camal cigarettes are and it was this old woman breathing thru an Iron lung talking about how smoking did that to her
I liked Truth's "its a great big world" campaign where they gave some facts about how damaging smoking can be while showing some unsettling Claymation body horror.
ohhhh my god memory unlocked i was 11 and seeing those EVERYWHERE i still hate the performance one where the lungs got burned
it was called, "little lungs in a great big world."
The most effective anti smoking ads to me personally was “the real cost” ones. There was this one add where the guy doesn’t have enough money for cigarettes and he takes a pair of pliers and pulls out his teeth and another where a girl rips the skin off her cheeks and it was so fucking scary that I think it really made me never want to smoke
No shit the tooth ad still haunts me, absolute nightmare fuel. Highly effective.
It’s the craziest shit how effective that was to me
I haven’t seen these in years but even you mentioning them makes me remember them so vividly like they were so gross they stuck in my brain
Yes those were super effective I remember those!!!
Frickin WOT. I remember the ones where the guy under a bridge opens a box and it's his rotting gums and teeth in it with scary music and lighting and stuff, that was bad but NOT THAT BAD
The only respectable anti smoking campaign was “the real cost”. That shit scared me enough to never even consider smoking.
Especially the mail with the teeth
That campaign ended? I thought I had those ads a couple days ago
Shit isn’t that the lung getting brutally beat up in every video( remember being like 12 and crying)
I fucking hated the skin one
The teeth one felt like a horror movie
truth's snapchat ads are terrifying. there's one where a bunch of teenagers are in a dimly lit building running from something while screaming, crying and begging for their lives
I got that ad but thought it was for a horror movie as I didn't watch it to the end lol
I saw it on TH-cam it was a statistic about “only 1 in 4 teens escape smoking”
Yea it's probably working because that ad Is fucking terrifying
yes! that one and the "inhaling toxic metals into your lungs" with the giant metal monster scare the shit out of me
I personally always thought that they'd never work, they don't show the actual effects of smoking just cinematic shots of "dead" kids lol
I started smoking when I was 14, 14 years ago, after my mom died, from smoking. I quit one week ago tomorrow. I knew how stupid I was being picking it up. I had it in my mind, "I won't be addicted like everyone else." Well, 14 years later I can safely say they are definitely addicting. I stopped cold turkey, and I don't anticipate going back to being a daily smoker, but I definitely can tell I'm probably going to relapse at some point unfortunately. Ugh. I'm sorry Mom.
Hey your doing great man
Stay strong
I hope you’re doing well man
❤I hope you are doing well!
Thank you everyone! 🥺
Shoutout to the 1% of teens smoking tobacco from a pipe according to that infographic
there are about three people in my class that smoke from a pipe, they think it looks classy or something
i read that and immediately went "yo what hipsters are smoking pipes?!" hahaha
@Den Johnsons true tho
My grandfather smoked a pipe and set his pants on fire once because he put it in his pocket too quickly after using it true story lol.
@@cabracadabra3054 It looks hella cool
oh hello i love this
Oh hello Jarvis. No idea I would see you here
rumor has it you still smell like peanut butter. Is this true?
Jarvis Jolly Johnson himself, gee wiz
no u
#boyssupportboys 👏🏻💖🌻
Truth used to have those ads where they'd have a person sign a contract listing all the bad shit caused by smoking, including the social consequences of having an addiction. Those were really powerful and scared the hell out of kids. Then they started doing kiddie anti-vape ads with puppets throwing up at the idea their friend was vaping. I feel it got even worse when they started having ads about how no one knows the consequences of vaping because it's so new, but that just sounded the same as saying there might not be any consequences. They went from effective to cringe and out of touch, and it's sad.
right!
Full disclosure, the earliest truth ads I saw were (I think) the ones where people were paying for cigarettes with teeth and shit but even then it was always just stupid and kinda funny. I’m not confident they were ever particularly effective. I think truth ads do more to comfort parents than stop teenagers.
Look I’m not saying I started vaping BECAUSE of those ads, but I never considered starting until I saw them. The old ads that showed the health problems (tooth loss, gum decay, skin problems, etc) absolutely kept me away
@@ptaradactletime11 iirc Truth is funded and partially managed by the big tobacco companies as apart of the settlements of the 90s (where they were found guilty of marketing to children and covering up the harm it does.)
There's definitely some people behind it that care about getting kids to not smoke. But it also exists because companies make it by court mandate.
So yeah they probably want adults to see them as fulfilling their duty more than kids.
If you saw a kid vaping and treated them the same as a kid you saw smoking, you might just make things worse. In fact, some doctors prescribe vaping to teens who are addicted to smoking. It may not be safe, but its no where near as dangerous as cigarettes. Fuck cigarettes, they took my grandpa.
Just as a perspective, I started vaping at 14, it led me to smoking, I smoked and vaped for 5 years with the last 2 being mostly vaping, over that time I developed a smokers cough, my lungs felt like shit every day for years, I couldn't exercise and do cardio without severe pain in my lungs, I was having chest pain often, my O2 saturation was at 94-95 consistently by 19.
Here I am, after many attempts at quitting iver the last 4 years and finally off it once again, my lungs feel much better, my O2 is between 99-100, my cough is mostly gone, I'm not having chest pains, I'm not wasting my money on something that I've grown to hate because of the redundancy and detriment to my health.
Nicotine fucking sucks, if you don't think that now then give it 5 years tops and you'll think it then, quit before it makes your life a miserable cycle of slowly killing yourself with a drug you can't stand but keep doing because of the addiction.
Been vaping for 8 years. No bad effects so far. Who am i to not squander superuor genes? Also I ain't no quitter.
I remember my school showing us a documentary about the farmers who grow the actual nicotine, and what a predatory business that is. It was well made, made you realise you might be hurting more people than yourself by buying nicotine products, and really tackled the issue of teens smoking in a new way. And why was that such a good idea? Because it treated us like human beings capable of critcal thinking and empathy. It showed us that while we might be okay right now, long term smoking is harmful in so many ways, for both you and the people working to supply the companies you inadvertantly support.
What is the name?
YES, this. I’m 34 now, but as a 12-year-old I wrote a paper for school about child labor. It stuck with me, and to this day I won’t shop at places that don’t have “no child labor” certification. I know it’s not a great solution to that problem, but my point is the message stuck with me 22 years later. Kids and teens are much more capable than we give them credit for, and if you give them information, or better yet, help them find it themselves, it can have profound, long lasting impacts
When I was a kid, they brought in an actual pigs lung that they had exposed to cigarette smoke. It was completely black and rotted. It was so disgusting. The only thing I ever heard about from my classmates about smoking was how they hated that their parents did it. No one ever smoked.
And I remember the ads where it showed how miserable people who smoked were and how it was a coping mechanism for a lot of them, it ruins their body and how much money it costs to smoke over years. The lady who had a device in her throat so she could talk. And people who had terrible illnesses because of second hand smoking. Also, the ads where it shows how the big tobacco companies target vulnerable people, how much money they make off of it, the way that they advertise, all the ways the fight and try to manipulate the law so they can still sell cigarettes, and how little they care about life.
I just took the fattest s*** about life. God damn it f let fucking amazing
They should do that with drugs too, people who grow drugs in poor country to it out of fear of bigger threat :( anyway that looks like a good documentary, thanks for sharing.
the best anti smoking commercial were those ones where they pulled their teeth out or ripped their skin off to trade in for a pack. I’ll never forget those
Those scarred meeee
aaand you just unlocked a buried memory of mine lol
SAME; I saw the title of this video and instantly thought of them
The Real Cost campaign
I know exactly the one oh my god
I have been very excited to watch this since you gently booped us repeatedly on Twitter.
Hello OT
Hey dude!
@@maknchill7980 stop harassing people.
OT hey!
@@BustingpherJones lol what
I started smoking and vaping as a teen and have quit more than once and honestly the most effective ad was on youtube saying using nicotine when anxious is a scam and makes you more anxious and I realized how bad my anxiety was since I picked up nicotine again and I tend to go back to it when I'm under a lot of stress.
I need to see that - I have been struggling to quit for over 2 years and that would hit me much harder given I have ADHD and ASD, where generalised anxiety is a huge problem.
As much as they scared my childhood, The Real Cost ads are actually good and take themselves seriously for the most part. Like I’m pretty sure people remember that commercial where the lady ripped off her skin. As weird as they are, they are more effective than Truth. So u gotta give them that.
YES! Their series "little lungs in a big world" are scary as shit.
Oof the ones that hit the hardest too are the ones where they show the date they died after the commercial.
The real cost knew how to really scare teens away from cigarettes! Those alien style monster ads where they attack kids and then crawl back into the cigarette carton. Damn, THOSE were scary and effective!
I actually always thought the little lungs series was really cute and creative haha
Yesss that one
It's so cringy seeing them now, because back in the early or late 2000's, truth initiative had some real effective commercials such as when live protesters dropped dead all at once in the middle of the street to demonstrate how many people die every year from smoking.
ikr i remember truth always had some silly ads but there were an equal amount of powerful ones- disappointing what they r doing now
The government mandated that tobacco companies fund anti smoking ads. I think you can figure out the rest...
@@lhaviland8602
Also with most anti-vape adds being made by big tobacco. Half of it is companies trying to overshadow anti-tobacco adds; the other half is made purposely cringy.
That shit was stupid and ineffective.
i remember the old anti smoking ad where the girl literally *peeled the skin off her face*
and now it’s “hey there’s a guy dancing in a costume... so stop smoking”
They should bring back ads with shock value, I know that’d do it for me.
@@Bruh-ob9mi lol those ads were the standard for what every horror movie should be. It wouldn't make me quit if I was addicted but it sure as hell not worse than the ads shown in the video
@@Bruh-ob9mi I mean they can bring them back but it won't affect vape use because vaping isn't anywhere near as harmful as smoking. There's nothing that's been proven with vapes that can be artistically exaggerated in that way like they did with skin aging, tooth decay, etc. There's just no proof vaping does things like that so they probably should stick with things that have some good peer reviewed studies backing them up.
@@Cub_K ya but vaping is still cringe lol
@@Cub_K i mean aren’t there some ads with the particles showing the heavy metals in the vapes? i think that’d be something fairly similar
In Australia where I lived for most of my childhood the cigarette boxes have pictures of diseased organs and such to deter people from smoking. I don’t smoke but I’d see that shit on the ground everywhere when I walked home from school so that was fun. Definitely don’t wanna smoke tho so I guess it works pretty well.
It’s amazing our governments won’t just make it illegal to smoke. They know it’s carcinogenic but still allow it and make marijuana illegal. It’s a shame
Same in Canada, all those pictures of pregnant women smoking or the old people with holes in their throats scared the crap out of me
@@monicarenee7949you can’t make it illegal. Nicotine fiends are gonna find a way. Remember the alcohol prohibition in the 1920s?
@@changedmynamee It's reductive to liken a tobacco ban to prohibition. For one, smuggling and consuming alcohol is a LOT easier than trying to hide the reek of cigarette smoke. People who drink recreationally (usually) aren't battling alcohol cravings throughout the day and are struggling to quit; hence, the public sentiment towards a tobacco ban might be completely different.
Both my parents smoked when I was a kid, and I was told vehemently my entire childhood to never EVER start smoking. They both regretted ever starting and they were very open about the cost, financial and mental, that nicotine addiction took on them. All of that, plus seeing them struggle multiple times to quit, made a huge impact on me as a kid.
Another reason I never smoked is because my mom quit when I was a kid, that was a good deterrent all on its own. She'd always smoke outside and stopped when I was seven and tall enough to reach the knives on the counter and make a sandwich. Scared the shit out of her
Same. Probably the biggest reason I never started. My parents never made it look good, and so the kids around me who smoked also wound up not looking good.
Yup thats the reason I don't smoke cigarettes but unfortunately it hasn't stopped me from finding blunts :(
Same here. My dad even smokes in the house even if a baby with asthma is in the house. Even around his grandson.
The most succesful anti smoking ad I've ever seen was the one where someone goes up to the counter at a sketchy gas station to get a pack of cigarettes and proceeds to PULL OUT THEIR TEETH ON SCREEN WITH A PAIR OF PLYERS.
WTF
I've never seen these and dear God do I hope I never will.
I remember that one... creeped me the hell out. Pretty successful I’d say
that one always made me cringe away from the tv bc it was so scary. very effective
THERE WAS THAT ONE OR THE ONE WHERE THE GUY REMOVES HIS SKIN
The most insulting/ revealing thing is, that the 'truth initiative' executives actually believe that the youth only cares about memes and tiktok dances. This couldn't be further from the truth. Young people are more political than ever before. Showing how manipulative, cynical and racist big tobacco is, is a great move and they really should go way further than that. Great video Eddy, beautiful knees!
This is about kids between the ages of 13 and 16, those kids aren't involved politically, and a lot of them don't think critically.
@@rreeeekk True, but there’s also ones who do think critically. Although they are probably a minority.
Ryan Kenny that’s the mentality that truth execs have and look at how well their ad campaigns were from this video lmao
@@WastePlace so? That doesn't make what I said untrue. What I said is true.
When I used to watch late night Nick, there was an ad I'd see a lot that actually discussed how Big Tobacco targets poorer and more minority-populated areas. If this ad or more like it were shown, I think a lot of teens would stop.
For anyone trying to quit nicotine: I had to quit nicotine for a surgery. I happened to be on a drug for mental health called Wellbutrin/bupropion. Turns out it’s also a smoking aid cessation drug. I thought quitting nicotine would be the hardest thing of my life but it was actually pretty easy, and I didn’t even know why until I was looking into my meds more. So like… unironically, talk to your doctor about Wellbutrin/smoking cessation meds lol, it might save your life!
Having a good, tangible reason to quit also helped quite a bit too.
That’s the same active ingredient as Chantix. It’s got a lot of negative side effects for a lot of people.
Key phrase for my quitting cold turkey (cuz I’m stubborn): The urge to smoke will go away *whether you satisfy it or not*. THIS FACT BLEW MY MIND!! I would briefly make myself super-busy whenever I wanted a smoke, and hours would go by before I’d realize I never did get around to it.
Next best: You can’t smoke ‘em if you don’t buy ‘em. The decision whether or not to smoke is made at the cash register.
Lastly: the length of cigarettes is essentially random. You don’t have to smoke the whole thing if you do decide to light up. Oh, and guilt serves no purpose. Be kind to yourself when you do something difficult.
Good for you, I live with addicts and the main thing at the end of the day we try and drive home is it sucks when you go back and participate using said drug again...
But what matters is you keep trying because each time you get further until you won't even feel the need to do so anymore , that it's an uphill battle.
The urge may be temporary in the moment but it never really goes away, even after years
I swear the only way to actually get these anti smoking campaigns to work is through sheer shock therapy. No flashing lights or dances. Show someone dealing with severe lung cancer. Show someone who wasted over thousands of dollars on addiction. Show someone who's baby was damaged by tobacco. Show someone who ruined their house with tobacco stains. Show someone who lost/can't make friends from how disgusting they smell. Show someone's teeth. Show someone who can't be very social or do many social things due to constant smoke breaks. Show someone with those hole in throat machines due to throat cancer.
If you show that rather than "#stopvapingchallenge" it not only shows to the audience that you're taking this seriously and you care about them but it also lets the audience know why they should quit or never start. If you make memes or magic tricks on tik tok then it'll obviously make it seem like it's not a big deal or that you're personally insulting the audience's intelligence which gives the opposite result
Facts, when I was a little kid I saw this ad with a woman with a hole in her neck and I will never freaking smoke ever
@@-Teague- the one with the woman named terrie? i remember that one good and well.
Truth, thats how its done. Look at the Montana Meth Project- you can find some of their ads on youtube and they are TERRIFYING. In 1999, when MMP started showing ads, meth usage among teens was at 13.5%. A decade later in 2009 it was down to 3.1%.
It sucks to scar kids, but fear tactics work and stick with you better than "relatable" content. Trends fade, drug addiction doesn't.
Exactly. When I was growing up i was shown a cancer riddled lung and that scared me to death. I then saw some of my family members die from lung and throat cancer from their smoking. I'm sure as hell not touching that crap.
Deadass, traumatize kids with these realities Before they irl traumatize and harm themselves later
The "you'll regret it when you're 22" line actually got me. I started smoking because, due to various mental health and social factors, I was pretty sure I wasn't gonna live to see past 30 anyway, so I started smoking because I didn't think I'd live to see the negative effects and fuck it, it looks cool and it calms me down. I realise now I was wrong.
I'm glad you got out of that mindset
Yeah, I'm 24 years old with mental health issues and 11 years of addiction, I've actually just gotten sober and am realizing that I should quit smoking cigarettes. I never thought I'd be alive at 24 and now I gotta fucking do something with my life. I'm switching to nicotine pods to at least quit tobacco and shit
Ngl I’m someone going through that exact mindset right now and I’m terrified of actually living long enough to see the effects lmao
@@jamesdagiantpeach im really happy for you. hope the pods help and then as soon as you can you move on to non-nicotine or nothing at all. im really glad youre alive and you can always make the most of the time you have now. good luck! sending love and support
Thank you so much for the support! ❤️ I hope all of you are doing well and be safe.
Honestly the most effective thing that kept me from smoking was my mother describing how hard it was to quit. She chose to quit before having kids so that my siblings and I could be healthy. I didn't want to have to quit some day, and I didn't want to throw away the incredibly difficult thing my mother had done for me.
I guess the lesson here is that emphasizing what it takes to stop smoking can be really effective for some kids.
This was one of the reasons why I never smoked cigarettes, let alone vapes. My mom tried stopping so many times but eventually went back throughout my childhood. Now, after so long, she's gone over a year without smoking. Plus, I never wanted to after hearing how people died from it. One of them was my freatgrand mother. I didn't know her that well but I saw her bf she passed in the hospital and I can't imagine what she went through.
What scars me and convinced me not to smoke was just seeing my own family literally pass away due to effects of smoking that did it for me.
Same, left an orphan at 17 is scary shit. Cigarette smoke revolts me, a lot of people complain I'm exaggerating, nah fam I'm just traumatised lmao
Or family members having to go outside every 10 minutes because they need a cig. Whole house and clothes smelling like smoke & kids at school making fun of you for it. There are so many reasons ppl could touch on that they don't even mention.
My grandmother died from smoking-related complications. She was around 68 and on an oxygen tank 24/7. My mom quit after she died. Sadly, I ended up getting addicted to nicotine at the end of my senior year in high school. I’m still trying to quit.
@@mattuwu9978 i’m so sorry for your loss & i hope you get the help you need to quit and proud of you for trying !!
@@ElleXvii I was around 12 when she died, and I’m almost 20 now. It wasn’t a recent loss, so it’s okay. Thank you for the kind words though. ☺️
The Real Cost is actually a very effective anti-smoking ad campaign. it shows real consequences of this real problem
It shows the disturbing side of it, fear works especially when that fear is truth
Idk doesnt seem to work on dumb kids that dont have a sense of mortality yet. Theyve already heard about addiction and lung cancer, they just dont care. All these do is make the adults telling you not to smoke look like goofy out of touch old people and makes smoking feel like more of a rebellion
The teeth and the box ad singlehandly made me never want to smoke
@@neighbor472 They've heard, but they only don't care because they're not capable of imagining the consequences. If you show them some crumpled up lungs then they get fucking horrified.
Those fucking gas station ads were horrifying that shit scarred me as a teen
“you can’t treat a teenager like their 5.”
my parents: *im just gonna pretend I didn’t see that*
ORORORORO!!! I spend half of my day sleeping! ORORORO!!! Then I sometimes get up and tell you that I am a famous content creatorORORORORO!!! Please don't sleep while driving, dear rx
@@AxxLAfriku oh boy not you again. Do you just take your meds off once a day, then go around commenting on every video in your recommended?
*they're
That’s just what parents do you’re always their child
This even though I’m 20 at this point. It’s just getting unreasonable at this point.
I think the scariest thing about addiction to these sorta things can be the loss of control. I didn't care that I was hurting myself in the long or short term. Maybe even I liked that. But the part that scared me was when I was trying to quit. I realized my addiction was controlling me and I was shackled by it. It's been a few years now and I still get the urge sometimes. Don't get started and stop while you still can.
Personally I think we're going about anti-smoking in completely the wrong way. As an 18-year old who has struggled with a dysthymia for over 8 years now, I always balanced between absolutely never wanting to smoke, because I know how bad it is for you, and really wanting to smoke, because I hated myself and my life and did not see any purpose in keeping myself healthy when I 'knew' I wouldn't live till 18.
There is obviously a group within teens who smoke who don't fully understand the risks or who give in to peer pressure and wanting to seem 'cool'. But I think it's also important to shift the focus to mental health. Never before have teens been so exposed to all the bad shit in the world. So much so, that the good in the world gets massively overshadowed. No wonder this generation seems to be the most depressed to date. Most of us have this feeling that there's no point in trying to keep yourself healthy in the long term. What's the point, if our world is breaking down around us? Not just environmentally, but politically as well, the climate is horrendously depressing.
Obviously, I did make it to 18, and I am finally on antidepressants after over 4 years of therapy trying everything I can to better my self-image. I still have never smoked a cigarette, and I still never ever want to smoke nicotine. I have smoked weed before, purely because edibles aren't as easily accessible. Right now, being on antidepressants, I do not use any stimulants at all.
I think it's useless to tell teens that smoking is bad for you. We know. That's why we do it. I think it's more important to help us *want* to be healthy.
I think they should focus on how expensive being addicted is, that’s pretty much the main reason I never tried smoking
THANK YOUUUU!!! Like yes I see how ads that show how harmful it can be is helpful, but I knowwwww. I just dont care because i dont care about myself or my health.
@@skylerpoduska that's just a dumb fucking reason though to smoke cx I mean you should know that feeling like shit from smoking is never going to help you feel better about yourself and its only downhill from there...... or why commit self harm? How is that going to make you feel any better about yourself? I'll never understand that logic.
@@justinallen2408 mental health issues aren’t logical, my guy. That doesn’t make it any less real to those who struggle with it. People who struggle with mental health don’t need other people to tell them it doesn’t make sense, they know. It’s like Truth trying to tell kids vaping is bad when they already know - this comment is doing the same thing. I can tell it’s well intentioned, but empathy and encouragement does way more to help than trying to logic through it. Anyways, I hope you have a good day today.
Couldn’t agree more
Can we bring back the "don't smoke" campaigns that used to scare TF outta Millennials? The people with holes in their throats? The ones who needed to be fed thru a tube? Like those campaigns actually worked.
Hey as a Gen Z we got those too! I remember the commercials with the old people with holes in their throats that had voices that sounded robotic, the images of shriveled up lungs and the ads that depicted people taking out teeth and peeling off skin to pay for a pack of cigs. Im a junior in hs though, and I will say that it's been a minute since I've seen one of those. I do wish they didn't stop airing, I remember being in the 5th grade and worrying about my peers who vaped. That's elementary school where I am!!
Yeah, as a kid I saw ads so scary I immediately looked away and closed the tab. You associate that with vapes/cigs, you got them the message.
There are still pictures of various organs decaying on the pack of evry packet of tobacco I buy. They didn't go away, they just got less shocking over time. They hopefully still have a profound effect when new people see them for the first time, since its mostly kids who we want to stop from smoking.
Its a lot easier to stop people from starting than it is to get them to quit.
@@miniamo_ i’m around you age and remember those ads. the closest things i’ve seen to those is a diagram of shriveled up lungs and damaged teeth in my school’s nurse’s office.
Yeah it’s the whole yolo mindset we all have. Tbh sometimes I don’t care when or how I die, and for a long time I was pretty convinced I wouldn’t even live long enough to get cancer. Idk, it’s difficult to stop thinking like that, and it’s usually still the driving factor behind my impulsiveness. Being an adrenaline junkie is fun until you can’t enjoy anything that doesn’t risk your health. So yeah, those ads are scary but at the end of the day the consequences won’t happen for another 40 years or so so ‘why should I care?’.
I smoked for 2 years and just in those 2 years I started coughing up weird mucus, just randomly coughing, experiencing random head aches , head aches after smoking. Things I figured was "normal smoking stuff" but then decided "I literally dont have to do this or deal with this" even today sometimes I'll crave a cigarette even though it's been 4 years and even in that shocks and scares me that these things are so terribly addicting and brain altering.
damn even after four years of getting over the addiction?
Stay strong you got this
my dad has been smoking for all his life- he's sixty now. when he was about forty he quit smoking for about four years, tried one one day because he was stressed and he's been smoking a pack a day since. he now has COPD. very good on you for quitting. i don't know but from what i can tell it's very hard to quit.
@@JaxontheOkay ive lived with chronic smokers my whole life and its incredibly difficult to stop especially since it can feel like it helps to alleviate your stress (in my mother's case she stopped smoking a while ago but recently started with cigars)
imagine having an urge so strong to smoke a cig it feels like you cant think of anything but that
thats how i try to understand it
Headaches could mean you just smoked a little bit too much for your limits or you're just dehydrated. I mean good for you to stop smoking, but that just means you are dehydrated. Smoking can dehydrate you just like drinking a cup of coffee.
And the mucus is normal. That's what happens when you smoke. I mean you are having a recreational poison into your lungs. That's essentially how your body is trying to get rid of most of that stuff. The nicotine can be sweat out, but the other chemicals are pretty much released through the mucus. And then your body triggers you to cough so you can get it out of you.
I remember when I was in school, as an “anti-smoking” ad, my teacher just showed us a video about this person who had to cut their jaw off because of smoking/chewing tobacco. It’s one of the only things that stuck with me. Never smoked because I wanted to keep my face. All anti drug ads should be like this, wanna keep your kids from smoking? Show them someone with half their face gone bc they smoked.
If truth advertised the genuine consequences of smoking and vaping like your school did I think it might just work better at getting people to quit
I feel like horror adds can only work to an extent, it only works on everyone if people actually feel the consequences of their actions.
I feel like the people really good at the anti-smoking and vaping campaigns is The Real Cost. They start off with an out-there concept or a down-to-earth story then wrap everything up with a fact at the end telling how harmful it is. It does a really good job at conveying why vaping is bad.
The real cost is almost all fear mongering. They never present any concrete facts and constantly use the slippery slope fallacy
Yeah, I like them a lot
I like the one with the big metal monster.
Yeah the ones that show teens being miserable, saying how it affects their mood, their education/grades, their relationships, etc. are wayyy better.
The real cost is goated compared to truth
My favorite anti-smoking psa was one featuring Superman beating a villain, Nick O'Teen, who was trying to give cigarettes to kids. Basically, Superman violently shakes Nick O'Teen down and I kid you not, throws him into the stratosphere. Nick O'Teen wasn't a super villain that could survive being thrown like a trash bag by Superman, he was just a regular guy that was giving kids cigarettes, he's dead. Superman killed someone in cold blood. Don't give people cigarettes or else Superman will toss you into orbit.
that sounds cool as fuck I wanna see that
@@jackolantern6631 th-cam.com/video/oljZbk9qsMM/w-d-xo.html
Lmao best anti smoking psa I’ve ever heard of
@@jackolantern6631 It's called Superman vs Nick O'Teen 2 on youtube
I'm in my 30s where statistically a lot of my classmates did smoke. We grew into our teenage years seeing a lot of these ridiculous anti smoking/drug ads ("this is your brain, this is your brain on drugs. *egg*") that we just made fun of. However I never started smoking despite a lot of friends and relatives doing it, and the biggest reason was that my parents taught me what smoking actually did to the body. They both worked in open heart/cath lab and saw what smoking did to people's bodies and lives. From a young age they laid out the facts and consequences and didnt treat me like I was just a dumb child. They used that method in a lot of other ways and I've carried that with me my whole life.
If these anti smoking/drug companies want to do real work they'll lay out the statistics and consequences of smoking in their ads. I now work in cardiology and I can not tell you how many people in their 50s-70s have said their biggest regret was picking up smoking. I had one patient when she found out I had never smoked, begged me to not make the same mistake. Will some kids still do shit despite facts? Yes, but you'll reach a whole lot more minds if you stop treating them like they're fucking idiots who only want to hear music and watch bright colors.
Facts are definitely the way to go, my dad's a doctor so I kinda know two things I'll never do is smoke and ride a motorcycle.
My parents talking to me about how hard it was for them to quit made me never want to try it. My parents were really good about giving me facts about drugs, not just saying “all of them are equally horrible” like health class did, and tobacco was what they warned me against the most.
I’m trying to create my own antivape program in my community using research from a lab that I work in. Seeing videos like this really helps to give insight on how to approach kids in a way that isn’t belittling and actually helps. Thank you!
the ads where the adults showed us holes in their throats and where they squeezed pus out of a blackened lung were traumatizing, but smoking has a traumatizing affect on the human body. people need to see the truth to understand what they’re doing to themselves. i decided i’d never smoke directly after seeing ads like those and i can easily say i never will. a grown man in a dragon onesie isn’t going to affect me like that. the truth initiative is a joke.
It clearly is effective, too, because they started priniting it on all the cigarette boxes.
I have 0 clue where one would buy a vape or the gas/liquid? you put in it, but I hope they also print the imagery on that stuff; got a feeling bureaucratic bullshit might've let them circumvent that, tho.
Why don’t they just do those ads with the homeless guys who have voice boxes spouting out facts bout cigarettes, those scared the shit out of me.
the ones where the kids rip their fucking skin off to pay for cigarettes or yanked out their teeth. holy shit
@@imperialguard451 or those ones with a kid opening a box and it contains rotting teeth, or a kid with a USB drive mouth vaping, those ones scared the shot out of me and they were all over the Need For Speed mobile game
it’s difficult because there isn’t much data on long term vape use. you can’t really show someone who has health problems from lifelong vaping when it’s only been around for maybe 10 years.
@@Jojo-ei6cd True.
There would work better. I can also see anti-smoking ads built around highlighting cigarette companies targeting poor and mentally ill people being great.
So nobody's gonna talk about nigahiga just appearing in the unicorn ad.
Wait that was actually NigaHiga?
A fuck ton of commenters are talking about it.
I thought I was the only one who noticed
I wonder if he addressed this on Twitch
man probably got a bag just for that 2 seconds and he wasn't even a part of the message. I think anybody woulda taken that role.
This video and Eddy being so genuinely supportive made me want to quit way more than any ad campaign ever has.
Go for it! I'm so proud of you for thinking that way! You can do it :)
My uncle smoked his whole life, now he’s in long term care due to lung problems and a brain tumor. As awful as Truth’s campaigns are, PLEASE don’t start smoking.
My grandad just died because he smoked when he was younger and it completely ravaged his lungs. Don't go down that path, it's not just you that your hurting.
My grandpa can’t even walk from a parking lot to a store without losing the ability to breathe. He’s had 2 heart attacks, his tongue had to be lasered back together because he burned it in half and he has fake teeth. All because he smoked, it’s scary what it does to your body
these comments should be ads instead of tiktok dances and cool slang
Why don't they just put a freaking cancer riddled black lung on their ads? Seeing that scared me straight as a kid.
Vapes don't cause that, that's from cigarettes.
@@zooeyzanger3318 while vaping probably doesn't have the same effects as regular cigarettes it's still bad for your lungs. Its just the fact that they are a new trend so we don't know the long term effects.
@@alexxans1154 in the terms of water vapor yes, it CAN be, we actually have a lot of research, it's mainstream now but was started in the 60s.
"the real cost" ads did pretty much that and were pretty effective at getting the point across as far as I can tell
because scaring and traumatizing kids isnt good either, and im pretty sure some ads do put that in anyway
I like the stache Eddy. Makes me trust you more, you're like a friendly dad
He’s TH-cam’s Billy Mays
For some reason your right
“Hey there sport, want to go out and play some ball”
Without the stache he looked like the kid who would burst into tears over everything in elementary school
@@castielffboi haha he really did.
One time in high school I asked a friend of mine why she would voluntarily throw herself into a nicotine addiction and she went "oh I'm not addicted, I just like to vape" this was a few days after she'd had us all go to the bathroom with her because she needed to vape. Multiple people told me they vaped because it "helped with their anxiety" apparently having no clue that one of the biggest nicotine withdrawal symptoms is increased anxiety. I also had many people tell me they wanted to smoke, do drugs, get drunk, or have sex just because if they didn't do any of that in highschool they'd feel that they'd "missed out" some even said that highschool is the time to experiment with those things.
I’m not saying it’s the best coping mechanism, but nicotine does ease anxiety. That’s why withdrawal increases it - you write that as if it’s contradictory but it follows logically. that’s how any anxiety medication works too. If you stop taking it suddenly, you’ll suddenly experience the anxiety more because you’re no longer getting the relief. That said, obviously only one of those will give you lung cancer, don’t smoke kiddos, etc.
If you'd bothered to think before posting, you'd recognize that there is a major difference between the effect of nicotine being used, and withdrawal symptoms. Personally, I'm sick to death of ignorant kids ranting about nicotine, without any real knowledge of the subject. You've let yourself be brainwashed, and no one is to blame but yourself.
Keep fighting soldier save yourself for marriage 💪
I'm currently in high school and this is the EXACT same bullcrap my friends say. all of it.
"You'll regret it when you're 22."
I've regretted it 2yrs afterward and it's been 6. Quiting is really hard
hey man, you can do it though. it's tough but it's worth it
Yes you can do this! Keep trying and going forward. You got this!
Yeah, quitting stuff like that is always going to be hard, but its ok as long as you keep trying cuz it will pay off
Hey you can do this!! I believe in u
You got this man
I once saw a short film that had a young boy being offered a cigarette by some of his friends. He took it, then in the next shot he was a teenager at a party, smoking, when he sees a girl. Then he’s on his first date with this girl and there’s a full ashtray on the table. Then he’s an adult and he’s putting out a cigarette when the woman arrives in a wedding dress. And then he’s anxiously smoking while waiting outside of the hospital room where his wife is having their baby. All these shots lasted maybe three seconds each. Now, cigarette in hand, he’s waving goodbye at his kid going to school. His wife is next to him and she takes his other hand. In the next shot they’re still holding hands and he’s in an hospital bed. There’s a doctor talking. He is bald and really pale. His wife is crying and his son is looking at him from outside the door.
Then it went back to the initial shot when he is being offered his fist cigarette and a text appeared. “Would you still take it?”
This comment makes me want to quit tobacco / vape more than anything else I’ve ever read or seen.
I remember the would you still take it ads those definitely were the ones that I saw everywhere
i got chills reading that. i HATE fear mongering but in cases like getting kids to quit smoking i think its the most effective solution.
lung cancer is no joke. i watched my grandma slowly die from it. she smoked so much that i get nostalgic when i smell cigarette smoke. she quit after 63 years and then still got diagnosed with lung cancer and died and it was an awful experience for everybody involved. people sometimes get annoyed by those PSAs, "they're trying to scare us with lung cancer" yeah, because lung cancer is fucking scary! it ruins lives! people die from it and they die in pain, slowly. lots of people with lung cancer die because they drown in the comfort of their own bed, because water fills their lungs! it's really fucked up and terrifying and people should absolutely be scared of it!
@@Sir_Austin_T_Gee please give quitting a shot if you can! I know it's really difficult but your health will be so much better off, and I believe in you 🤝
Just you writing this out was very effective. I couldn't imagine the impact of the real ad.
I started smoking when I was 15, always said I would never quit couse I wouldn't know what to do all the free time as a none smoker, I literally spent most of my day smoking with friends or at dorms, maybe one pack a day , I am officially 22 and I am one year smoke free, now I hate the smell of cigarette smoke 😅 I am quite proud of myself
So don't give up, u can do it
I'm proud of you too
Good job man
I don't know how people can smoke so much everyday ...I started smoking around that age and I'm 25 now ...cigs started completely making me feel like shit ..I would wake up with hangovers from cigarettes headaches that wouldn't go away and sinus problems .. I completely stopped smoking now after getting a sinus infection a few weeks ago
Damn, I mean good for you but a pack a day? I'm way too money conscience for that. The most I can ever smoke is 5 a day.. and even then I really don't smoke tobacco too much lady cuz I've been bit more of a pothead more than anything. Now that is going to stop anytime soon. Hoorah for legalization.
And that actually has medical benefits and even if I really wanted to stop smoking smoking, I can still take that without smoking. Though that wouldn't be the same. It just makes life so much better. Like if I had to quit one or the other, I will gladly quit tobacco before I quit the sweet citrussey 🌿
Well done.
I remember going to an event on New Year’s Eve at my favorite bar with my partner. We were complimenting a woman on her outfit and had a little conversation. Eventually she said she and her group were heading outside to smoke and asked if we wanted to join them. Neither of us smoke, so we said no. And she said “good! Don’t start!” And honestly? That was probably the most effective “anti smoking” thing I’ve experienced in the past decade
I started smoking when I was 12, just because of this.
Not only that, but I stopped because a teacher told me clearly that she cared about me and listed every single thing that could go wrong and how I could fall into a drug spiral, and it helped me so much. You've got so many good points talking about this.
(I'm now 16, and I've been clear about two years, feel free to call me stupid because I was.)
kids do stupid shit all the time, but good to hear you've been able to stay clean. this random internet lady is proud of you
what a sweet teacher, she really seemed to care about you. i wish every person had someone like that, maybe more people would quit. but instead sometimes the people around encourage it. awesome that u quit too.
Proud of you for quitting man! Keep it up!!
I'm so proud of you!
You ain't stupid for shit man. I know a lot of guys who started at around 12, received the same kind of help from teachers and still continues even today. You're smart for taking what that teacher had to say to heart. I'm proud of you dude, stay clean!
Marketing to kids is like marketing to an underqualified manager: You don't talk to them on the level they're on, you talk to them with the respect of where they feel they are at with content of where they actually are. Speak to them like adults, but use messaging a teenager would understand.
I quit smoking but I began in high school despite all the ads because at the time I was depressed&suicidal and didn't care about the costs to my body. I knew a lot of people who picked up vaping and smoking around the same time with the same mindset. I wish more ads talked about mental health in conjunction with tobacco use, because its definitely a problem from what I've seen.
yup. Like ik exactly what I'm doing to myself. But I don't care
This unlocked a core memory- a campaign called Shards o Glass pops- a commercial with ice pops that had glass in them. It was a parody of tobacco companies who tried to sell you something that was obviously terrible for you.