Commercials you Hate

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Things you need to know:

- It's funded by Philip Morris partly as a result of the Master Settlement Agreement, in which big tobacco companies paid $206 Billion for all the BS they spouted; this campaign is one thing being paid for by tobacco;

and

You see what they did there? Tobacco can't be advertised on television -- it's illegal. But anti-tobacco ads featuring militant media-created youngsters striking back against smoking, that's fair game. So only the kids who hate the ad or are disillusioned and disenchanted with big media messages, will consider smoking. I.e., most of them.

It's almost like tobacco noticed that the anti-drug ads failed whatsoever to stop teen drug usage, and said, hey, let's get a piece of that action. It doesn't matter if they say we suck and we kill everyone and that we're deeply evil. The culture is all about the evil now; just being on the agenda we get 20%.

Damn. That's bloody brilliant in a deviously evil kind of way. Gotta admire the cunning. Bastards.