The Truth???
I have been seeing all these stop smoking advertisements. I have been mainly watching ‘The Truth’ and its exaggerations. I can’t understand the demonification of a perfectly legal product. Personally I am allergic to the smoke, but that is my problem. I sit in the nonsmoking sections of restraints and almost all stores and workplaces are smoke free. Places have gone as far as making smoking banned in open air venues or even in the outside public. While I feel these are extreme, they are voted in by the communities they affect.


With hand guns, automatic weapons, and bombs entering our schools at an alarming rate. Killing our kids indiscriminately, with drugs far more harmful that smoking on the rise, with wars and racism around the world killing ten times more people than smoking ever could. Then with inner city gangs on the rise and the dwindling prospects for any one to be able to achieve the American dream. How can anyone act like cigarettes is a big deal? Or that this problem justifies large amounts of money being spent when it could be going to fight much larger problems?

These groups fighting smoking seem to only have been born after the massive tobacco settlement with the states. Does this mean a large portion of the settlement promised to help each state with increased healthcare costs have been wasted on these silly TV campaign? Does this mean that the additional healthcare costs will once again fall on the shoulders of the tax payers? Or could these antismoking campaigns have a darker motivation?

It is illegal to advertise cigarettes on TV since the big tobacco settlement with the states. By hyping up cigarettes as bad you can be making it look cooler to smoke than ever and this keeps cigarettes on the minds of children. Kids are going to rebel against anyone trying to impose their will over their own. The terrible teens rise to the challenge. I think ‘The Truth’ must work for big tobacco because they are definitely making more new smokers than any previous campaign advertisement by the individual tobacco companies before.

All I can say to whom ever is running these nonsmoking advertisements is, keep up the "good" work and all our kids will have a good chance lung cancer before the decade is out.