You know, every time I see this site, I end up going out and buying another pack of smokes.

You’re enforcing my belief that by smoking I’m defying authority!

I’m a rebel! A rebel I say!

I was waiting for those body parts to just suddenly move and startle bypassers… Maybe I’m sick that way.

Okay… no maybe. >.<

‘In the year 2007 A.D, there was a race of people that paid money to light their own insides on fire, and they actually enjoyed it.’
^^ LOL I love that.

“Wow. I jsut started smoking a couple months ago…. bad choice. I think I’ll stop now, like seriously.”
^^ Yes, good choice. 
 
Listen folks..Whether or not you like TheTruth it doesn’t matter.  Whether or not your wildly innacurate statistics makes you think you have only less than 1% chance of dying from smoking (sic).. Whatever… This site might as well be called blahblah.org  The fact is they are trying to educate the uneducated.  People will smoke, yes.  But if TheTruth can convince less than 1% of that group to quit smoking a year..what a great thing.  If they could get a small portion of people who are thinking about picking up the addiction to not, what an even greater thing.  Don’t put money in these peoples’ pockets.  Put it in yours.  Save up and pay cash for a nicer car
 

Sometimes people just gotta die, even if they do it to themselves.

How’s it feel to accomplish nothing?  I know what it’s like, but I thrive on that.  You actually have a goal, and you’re crashing.

“Omega, not wanting to smoke doesn’t make you a two-faced snob. If she has friends who smoke, that’s her problem, not yours. Great job on taking a perfectly normal comment and turning it into a whole load of crap.
Posted 1/7/2007 7:10 AM by TheVandalizedNapkin”

Napkin, you gotta understand: Anything I say on here, I only say that stuff for the lulz I enjoy once I get replies to them. Seems this page can keep the lulz coming non-stop, so that means I’ve found the ultimate source of chuckaliciousness on teh hole interwebz. Thanks for the congratulatory comment, too!

Ick, body parts sticking out of a garbage can is gross. But, I’m glad someone is spreading the message..

Every time I see your attempt at an ad campaign it makes me want to START smoking.

Okay okay, we all get it, you lost out on the big contract for Marlboro so now you’re attempting some kind of revenge. So it makes you feel all better. Don’t cry, other cancer-causing ad-campaign contract will come along….just look at your Volkswagen deal – there’s a fuckload of carsonogens pumping out of those vehicles on a daily basis – affecting everyone who walks down the street !! See ! Life isn’t all that bad !! There there……

Perhaps I am wrong, but I believe that almost everyone is aware that smoking causes cancer and that cancer, in turn, causes death. Spending large amounts of money to make people aware of something they already know seems like a waste of money.
Also, if you have studied the social psychological literature on persuasion and attitude change, then you know that if you create too much fear in people they simply ignore your message. Ignoring the message is an easier way to reduce the fear and dissonance than changing behavior–especially when that behavior is highly physically addictive. Additionally, the literature shows that fear is only effective in changing behavior if the fear inducing stimuli is immediately followed by very specific instructions on how to avoid whatever it is that is causing the fear (death in this case). Of course, you could say that people know that stopping smoking is the way to avoid cancer and death, but they already know this and it hasn’t helped. In fact, many of them have probably tried to stop smoking and failed. The way to make your message effective at changing behavior is to give very specific and novel (not the same old things people have heard that haven’t helped them) instructions to help people quit smoking immediately following the fear inducing part of the message. The advertisements I have seen in this campaign arouse a lot of fear, but say nothing of how to reduce it, which means they are unlikely to be effective.
Maybe instead of spending money to tell people something they already know, it should be spent on something more effective. The fact is people know that smoking causes cancer and is unhealthy but do it anyway. So why do they do it? There are probably many reasons–it’s an empirical question, one that I would guess is already much researched. It seems that the thing to do would be to find the answer to this question and then spend the money fighting the reasons people smoke despite its negative consequence.

OMGX0RZZ, TRUTH TROLLIGN!

Your brother’s a piece of trash because he chose to be, and saying smoking cigarettes has anything to do with it (including his weight; if you notice, there are a lot of both obese and muscular smokers, i.e. mechanics) is like saying biting your nails will lead to certain failure in life. You can’t judge someone’s actions in life by a habit. Don King smokes, and he’s boxing’s biggest promoter. Plenty of pro baseball players smoke AND chew. Denis Leary smokes. Yet these are all examples of successful people.
The point is, you have no point. Don’t blame the tobacco industry for your brother failing at life, blame your brother. He’s old enough to know better.

how superadical.

I even used me and my wife’s word…

actually u have a lot more than 1% chance of dying from smoking b/c smoking can irritate or cause asthma and breathing difficulties but it ususally takes effect as mouth,tongue,throat,larynx,esophagus,pancreas,bladder,kidney, and ESP. LUNG CANCER which is the primary cause of cancer deaths in the u.s. so even though the people who smoke havent gotten cancer yet they unfortunately probaly will so u might not die instantly its true,but it takes years off ur life depending on how much and how often u smoke and more than 90% of lung cancers are caused by smoking but y would u pay 2 pump smoke and other chemicals into ur body in the first place to cause cancer,wrinkles,yellow teeth, its also a nasty habit AND give other people secondhand smoke which is just as bad them smoking themselves.

<LI>Within 48 hours after quitting smoking, blood pressure decreases, pulse rate drops, body temperature of hands and feet increases, the carbon monoxide level in the blood returns to normal, the oxygen level in the blood increases to normal, the chance of a heart attack decreases, nerve endings start regrowing, and the ability to taste and smell is increased.

<LI>Within the first year after quitting smoking circulation and lung function increase, and coughing, sinus congestion and shortness of breath decrease.

ya..I support your idea–
anti-manipulation.