Smoking

Anti smoking adverts are bugger on my wallet because every time that I see one, it makes me want to go and smoke a cigarette. 

 One example of this is the Niccoretee advert that features the giant cigarette. Once I see the image of the 6ft cigarette, a mother fucker of a craving for nicotine is triggered and I need to have a cigarette.

 Some of Niccoretee adverts carried the slogan “don’t think cigarette, think Niccoretee. I was thinking about having a cigarette until the ad’s slogan flashed upon on the screen, and again I get one motherfucker of a craving for nicotine and cigarette is needed. 

 It’s like somebody has told you do not look over there, but there is a midget standing over there when you had not even spotted the midget. You never knew the midget was there, and now that you know that is there you have to look.

Another example of non-smoking adverts that had the reverse affect on me was an advertising campaign that was shown on MTV when I was in my teenage years. Like many teenagers, I used to think MTV was cool, so a cool station telling me that smoking is something that I shouldn’t smoke could have worked.

If they advertising campaign had been produced by MTV I’d have probably listened. However that bastion of cool the EU produced the campaign. Who knows better what teenager’s think is cool more than a group of politicians?

One of the adverts in the campaign I remember is the advert that featured a teen that enjoyed skateboarding. It was saying all things that he doses then at the end came the big reveal he doesn’t smoke. The ad was saying to me and other teens that if you don’t smoke, then guess what kids? You can be just like the teen in the ad! Jesus H Christ, someone, anyone hand me a Marlborough I don’t want to be anything like that kid.

The reason, I guess that those adverts don’t work on me, is because I hate people beating me over the head with the message that smoking is bad for me. I already know that is bad for me when I began smoking. Mr Benson or Mr Hedges never put a shotgun to my head, and forced me to put the cigarette in my mouth, I did it under my own freewill.

At this time I am not sure if I will ever stop smoking. Whenever that happens, it will be my choice, right now that right is over; it is time for a smoke.