powerful ad. complaints about this are probably from smokers who dont want to be guilt triped i imagine. theres some folks need hard messages like this given to them however much they dislike it.

Moving this video to spoco2's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*beg because it's an excellent message, and very affecting

Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter spoco2.

Good stuff. Don't smoke! (cigarettes..)

...what are they finding to complain about, I wonder? Aside from, "Oh no, it's making me feel guilty."

It's a steaming pile of emotional blackmail maybe?

Look at the kid. Do you think he is acting? There are plenty of reasons to quit smoking but because some a-hole left a kid in a crowd isn't one of them.

>> ^FishBulb:
Look at the kid. Do you think he is acting? There are plenty of reasons to quit smoking but because some a-hole left a kid in a crowd isn't one of them.


Totally missed the message.
Listen to the VO guy at the end....pretty big tip.

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I gotta say, that was not a disturbing ad -- not for this funster anyway.

I doubt this kind of commercial will affect the people who think "meh, it'll never happen to me." Most smokers know the "risks", but there are very very few who think it will ever affect them in that way.

>> ^atara:
...what are they finding to complain about, I wonder? Aside from, "Oh no, it's making me feel guilty."


The issue is with people who aren't even necessarily smokers. Neither my wife or I smoke, but she can't watch this as when you have little kids of your own of about the same age, to see this makes all of your protection instincts come out and you feel horrible for the kid, and sick in the stomach with the thought of it happening to your kids.

I think it would me more disturbing if he got eaten by a velociraptor, and I was totally expecting something like that. I'm kind of disappointed.