The Tobacco Reference Guide

by David Moyer, MD.


Chapter 28 Advertising

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Advertising: Antitobacco advertising

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A poster by a 5th grade girl won the New York City Smokefree Ad Contest. It showed

a skeleton with a cowboy hat sitting on a horse riding through a cemetery and the logo

"Come to Where the Cancer Is."

Kids Say Don't Smoke, Andrew Tobias, Workman, 1991

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The organization Women and Girls Against Tobacco contracted to place an ad in

Essence magazine, a publication for African American women. It featured pictures of

three now-deceased Motown legends, Mary Wells, Sarah Vaughn and Eddie

Kendricks, and the logo "Cigarettes made them history." Even though a contract had

been approved, the magazine reneged and would not run the ad, citing it as "too

controversial."

Tobacco Control, Summer 1994, p. 103

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A poster from the organization DOC has a macho model posing with a cigarette stuck

up his nose with the caption, "I smoke for smell."

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A highway billboard sponsored by Tobacco-Free Washington has a bald, pale, sickly

camel in a hospital bed with IVs in his arm and the caption "Joe Chemo."

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A centerpiece of a 1997 $30 million tobacco education and cessation program in

Arizona is the slogan "Tobacco. Tumor causing, teeth staining, smelly puking habit."

Washington Post National Weekly Edition, November 10, 1997, p. 31

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