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Nicoclean: Anti-smoking ad.

Posted on Oct 31st 2007 6:32PM by Martha Edwards

Filed Under: Womens Health, Diet & Weight Loss

So many girls and young women are still smoking and even taking up smoking, despite all health problems it's been proven to cause. Why? The only reason I can think of is the glamorization of smoking -- it seems to be what the pretty, thin girls do, particularly from a high-schoolers point of view. Here's an new anti-smoking video I recently came across, one which tries to appeal to more to a woman's vanity than her health. Take a look.

What do you think? Will the promise of lack-luster skin appeal more to young women than the chance that they might develop health problem later in life?

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Tags: beauty, cigarettes, nico, nicoclean, nicocream, nicotine, skin, smoking, tobacco

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richard day gore 10-31-2007 @ 7:31PM

Good idea to use vanity in anti tobacco campaigns. Isn't vanity, in one form or another, the root of why most people start smoking?
Regards,
Richard Day Gore

njwmaine 11-01-2007 @ 4:10PM

I'm tired of hearing about the horrors of smoking.
This is a choice. What I would like to see is alcohol advertisements dropped from the media. They glamorize drinking by their words and sexual overtures to all, including teens.
See the statistics of road deaths while intoxicated as opposed to death from smoking. Also, check out the number of case of people who died from second hand smoke.
It's time to get the alcohol ads off of the television, at least.

Fra59e 11-01-2007 @ 5:19PM

A fact that smokers don't face is that their habit is dirty. Like spitting and picking your nose, it is what you may need to do in private but it is disgusting when smokers force others to participate in their dirty behavior without their consent. Spitting in public has been eradicated by a few laws plus a lot of social disapproval, and soon smoking will go the same way- despised as a piece of history that belongs to the past. Hopefully this video will help the smoking habit move toward extinction.

Mark 11-05-2007 @ 6:39PM

I'm a certified addictions specialist sub-specializing in tobacco treatment. One in five adult Americans still smoke, despite evidence that tobacco use has been postively correlated with COPD afflictions ( lung cancer & emphysema) as well as heart disease & diabetes. Current figures suggest that 50% of adults who smoke will succumb to tobacco related illness. This translates into 1 in 10 adult americans prematurely dying from the usage of the only product on the American market designed for human consumption that has no legal obligation to list it's ingredients on the pack, or report them to the FDA. Alcohol deaths don't hold a candle to those directly related to the consumption of tobacco products.