Comments on: Why do anti-smoking ads backfire? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/why-do-anti-smoking-ads-backfire.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:59:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/why-do-anti-smoking-ads-backfire.html/comment-page-1#comment-78100 Anonymous Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:15:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/why-do-anti-smoking-ads-backfire.html#comment-78100 So teens are oppositional and tend to want to do what they are told they shouldn't do! Who would have ever thought such a thing?<br/><br/>One should ask whether the real purpose of antismoking messages is to stop smoking in the first place? Who is buying them and why? Where in the unholy tobacco-government-trial lawyer triad that defines the tobacco industry now do these messages fit? Can we really say that any of the players funding them actually want smoking to go down, when they are in effect in business with tobacco and dependent on it for a continued income stream? So teens are oppositional and tend to want to do what they are told they shouldn’t do! Who would have ever thought such a thing?

One should ask whether the real purpose of antismoking messages is to stop smoking in the first place? Who is buying them and why? Where in the unholy tobacco-government-trial lawyer triad that defines the tobacco industry now do these messages fit? Can we really say that any of the players funding them actually want smoking to go down, when they are in effect in business with tobacco and dependent on it for a continued income stream?

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