Missing Links

Did you know smoking causes your friends to grow sausage-link arms?
Well, it does...according to the latest campaign from the New Mexico Department of Health. To confuse consumers even more, they've also created a website. This is about as close to "false advertising" as you can get in this business. Well done guys.



The real lesson learned here is if you smoke too much while creating an advertisement, bad things really do happen. And clients have to pay for them.

A Scary Coincidence

Who knew smoking was worse than the biggest terrorist attack of all time? Apparently, a few different anti-smoking groups who released the same exact campaign six months apart. I imagine advertisers will continue leveraging this terrible tragedy in years to come. We'll probably be seeing a lot more twin tower visuals just like this one. Scaring people in an original way must be a tough job. There's only so many iconic tragedies you can use to your advantage.































What about the Nazi's? Surely there's an anti-smoking campaign in there somewhere.

Nicotine Foot

Here's some frightening banner ads I found on FoxNews.com, America's scarevertisement headquarters. It was hard to spot them because they were lost in a sea of terrifying headlines and news stories. This whole "smoking makes your body parts fall off" appears to be the new trend in anti-smoking ads. Seems like a stretch to me, but what do I know? In a few months they'll probably come up with a totally new way to scare smokers. I'm looking forward to it.




























Skip Legault might be dying, but he's the poster child for a national ad campaign. I can only hope I'm that famous before I become crippled from smoking, my legs fall off and I bleed to death.
Hang in there Skip. Your 15 minutes aren't over yet.