The Truth About TRUTH.COM
Written: Oct 01 '00
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Pros: It does inform the public about the dangers of smoking.
Cons: Continues to get more and more annoying the more they make.
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I have finally had enough of these TRUTH.COM commercials. Yes, smoking is bad for you. Yes, smoking could kill you and has caused the deaths of untold thousands. And yes, the tobacco companies are making money at our expense But, how many people really think that commercials like the ones they have been putting out are going to do any good? Not me.
I don't smoke, I know several people who do though, and despite the ads on television, they continue to smoke, knowing it isn't healthy for them. They actually sit there and tell eachother that it's bad for them, and then laugh about it. I laugh too because smokers are sick and tired of the crusade the non-smokers are carrying out to get them to quit smoking.
We all know it will kill us, but if you don't want to smoke, then don't, it's that simple. I think people in general are sick of other "righteous" people butting into our lives telling us everything we are doing wrong by their standards. I put it right up there with people telling me how I should dress, how I should talk and how I should raise my children. Nobody wants to be told their doing something wrong because someone else doesn't do that.
I keep seeing these commercials where they drop body bags from a plane, or in a downtown metropolis. In other ones they tell us to rip the ads out of magazines. Or they hold up a lightboard with numerical statistics about what tobacco companies do to us every year. But no one really cares. The smokers don't care because they want to smoke, and the non-smokers shouldn't care because they don't smoke anyway! Does any sane person really believe that ripping the ads out of magazines is really going to do anything? You are only going to rip them out of your own magazines, and by then the company already has your money. And the publishers aren't going to stop printing them because the tobacco companies pay to have them put in there.
They also talk about how "Big Tobacco" is lying to us all just to sell more cigarettes, and how "they" are killing people just to make a profit. I think that is a bunch of garbage. Can anybody truthfully believe that there is a single person out there today that doesn't know what smoking will do to you? I don't think so. Especially the people who smoke, thay all know just from the dozens of annoying non-smoking evangelists telling them everytime they light up. I honestly think it makes them want to smoke more.
I can understand not wanting to have billboards near schools and maybe even not smoking in public buildings, but these commercials have gone too far. How many people get killed in cars every day? Or in airplanes, or from alcohol, or cheeseburgers? Maybe we should all stop driving, flying, drinking and eating foods we enjoy. Maybe we should all just lock ourselves in our houses, never come out again, and eat nothing but tofu and vegetable juice. That way no one would ever die again. I'm sorry but it will never happen. It didn't work during prohibition, and it won't work now. If you remember, more people drank then, than they did whan it was legal. The same thing is going to happen with smoking. The more you tell them it's wrong, the more they want to do it.
I can understand people not wanting to smoke, I can understand people wanting to smoke, and we all know what it can do to you. What I don't understand is why some people feel the need to get in my face, smoker or not, and tell me that what they say is right and I am wrong. As far as I am concerned, go ahead and smoke, go ahead and don't smoke, but leave everyone else alone.
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Member: Matt Nelson
Location: Morehead City, NC
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