1966—The Gnarmax-iest Anti-Smoking Ad Ever.

(click ad, via) How did Dave go from boardless Hodad to Mondo wave carver? He quit burning up his pocket money on cigarettes, duuude. Check out the oh-so-dated savings amounts in the last frame. More importantly, check out the ASS on his new Nectar, something the board-fixated smoking hodads completely ignored. LOOK AT IT (Thanks to Riptionary™ for surfer slang help. Illustrations by Frank Frazetta). Previous retro anti-smoking ads: Fabio sez lips are made for kissing not smoking. Previously in: anti-smoking ads.

This is how to do anti-smoking advertising to teens.

(via osocio) Why? Because it's goofy and blind, so they'll watch it to the end. Will it stop teens from smoking? Probably not. But that's a problem with any anti-smoking/drinking/drugs advertising aimed at teens; social ads never work on them. So you've done the best you possibly could, 15andfalling. Bravo.
Ad agency: Extreme Group, Halifax. For previous noteworthy (good and terrible) anti-smoking ads, go here and here.

Russian Anti-Secondhand Smoke Ad Features Baby Torture.

(click ad) Translation: "Smoking in child’s presence is a much bigger torture for him. You don't care?" The billboard was up earlier this month in a few locations around Moscow, according to Pravda. The city's committee for advertising harshly condemned it. A spokesperson from the ad agency said: "Any normal person will be disgusted with what the picture shows. But if thousands of children have a chance to stop inhaling tobacco smoke every day, we believe we could sacrifice our visual comfort for that." Burn baby burn.
Previous provocative anti-smoking ads:
• Smoking=9/11.
• Smoking=9/11, Redux.
• Australian TV spot truly terrifying.
• Billboard made from 15,000 butts.
• The violent-est anti-smoking spots ever.

Now this is an anti-smoking spot.

If Ronaldo Martinez and his missing larynx creeped you out, then you most certainly should NOT move to Australia where they are known for their brutal anti-smoking campaigns. This commercial is terrifying. (thanks Evan for the tip)
previous anti-smoking ads:
1. ashes to ashes...
2. there's pee in your butt.

Russian Ad Watch: your excuses for not quitting smoking are childish.

(via, via) The kids are good, especially the "after sex" boy and the "after that asshole left me" girl. The spot is certainly better than a previous Russian anti-smoking billboard that featured a baby with a cigarette ashed on his back. But it's not as effective as the wonderful anti-alcohol Hell Squirrel video.
Militant anti-smoker NYC mayor Bloomberg, who's already imported a spot from Australia to run locally, is probably paying for these kids to learn English as I type this. Ad agency: Smetana. Previously in: anti-smoking ads.

Next time, why not add little floating pieces of ash to represent the WTC workers who jumped to their deaths?

(click ad to read copy)
If you don't quit smoking, the terrorists will have won.
New anti-smoking print ad by DDB New Zealand for ASH (Action on Smoking and Health). Doyle Dane Bernbach, of course, has a long legacy of whip-smart, original creative thought. So, I'm sure the men (yes, it was all men) who created this masterpiece had no knowledge of the anti-smoking ad from last September by the Khaleej Times in Dubai that featured the exact same cheap visual trick. Maybe—just a suggestion here—it's time for the world's insensitive, hackneyed ad peoples to exploit some other past tragedies in their efforts to win those oh-so-important ad awards.

(nsfw-ish) Butt Nipple.

(click ad, via) If you smoke ladies, Fabio will never kiss your nipples. I missed this ad from 2008 for the Regional Cancer Centre in India warning women about the consequences of smoking during and after pregnancy. "Women who smoke feed more than just milk to their children." Ouch, looking at that visual makes my nipples burn. Anti-smoking Shockvertising by Bhadra Communications in Bangalore. Not as shocking as the Moscow ashed baby posters, or this Australian TV spot, though. I've posted quite a few anti-smoking ads in five years. Here's the archive.

Retro Anti-Smoking Ad of the Day.

(click ad, from 1998, via)
Pretty crazy coming from the CDC, right?
Ad agency: unknown.
Previous retro anti-smoking ads:
• 1966—gnarly!
• Fabio sez lips are for kissing, not smoking.

The worst anti-smoking spot I've ever seen.

(via) Compare to: the worst anti-smoking billboard I've ever seen. Here, stupid visual puns are even worse than stupid verbal puns. Is the insufferable Kenneth punneth Cole, the Worst Copywriter In The History of Advertising™, now shooting European PSAs on the side? Because this is nuclear stupid. The acting and the direction just add to the awfulness. Produced by Austria's Good Food Studio.

US Government to put corpses on cigarette packs.

(click images) Also, cancerous lungs and mouths, and lovely tracheotomy blow holes. Collect all nine and win a free CAT Scan! Starting in September 2012, The FDA plans on making these and other gruesome packages mandatory for all cigarettes sold in America. The images must cover half of the packs and take up 20% of cigarette ad space. But the four big tobacco companies are all threatening legal action, so expect a courtroom fight to last for years. Meanwhile, in the rest of the world, anti-smoking shock-vertising is the norm—check out this terrifying 2006 commercial via Australia.
Related: a round-up of anti-smoking advertising.

Russian Billboard Watch: an anthropomorphized masturbating cigarette?!?

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Russian readers! Please translate what the fap is going on in this—I presume—anti-smoking billboard (update: see comments). What are the money-shot words yelling? Is it about impotence, a side effect of smoking? That's my guess. Previously: Russian anti-secondhand smoke billboard features baby torture.

Just because Fabio is smokin', doesn't mean you should, ladies.

(click ad) Just say no, says Fabio. "When I first look at a woman, I look into her eyes, unless she has a cigarette between her lips..." And, that deafening sound heard across the land was the simultaneous crushing of millions of packs of smokes by entranced readers of romance novels. Wow (fanning myself with a product brief). That's even more effective than telling me there's urine in my cigarette, or comparing smoking to 9/11 (twice). (via MakeTheLogoBigger) Previously in anti-smoking ads. Previously in vintage cigarette ads.

Ashes to Ashes...

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Last Tuesday on the anniversary of 9/11, The Khaleej Times, "the No. 1 English language daily paper published in Dubai, United Arab Emirates," ran this full-page, anti-smoking ad. Damn, missed my deadline! I could've added it to the Gawker 9/11 post.
Very interesting—and maybe insensitive!—that a paper from an Arab country would exploit the burning twin towers.
I guess those smoking ex-buildings are full-on fair game now—so what else can they help sell? Maybe Alternative Energy (take that UAE)! Ideas?
(image source. thanks to Bill Green at MTLB for the Bacon Wristband—winning tip! only three left!)

1930: Lucky smokers haunted by fat tar-colored doppelgängers.

(click ads) Big Tobacco can only longingly ache for the days when they were allowed to so audaciously promote their cigs as healthy, tasty toasted diet snacks. Love the disclaimer at the bottom which reads: "We do not say smoking Luckies reduces flesh. We do say when tempted to over-indulge, reach for a Lucky instead." (images via: flickr clotho98) Previously: Vintage cigarette ad round-up. Related: Anti-smoking ad round-up. Plus: There's Pee in your Butt!

copyranter on ANIMAL NY: more anti-smoking ads made from cigarettes.

These make me want to start smoking. A lot. (link)

PenisVertising Update: the limp guns of the Finnish army.

(click ad, via) Anti-smoking poster via the Cancer Society of Finland targeting troops that was hung (heh) in their barracks (I'm guessing). To the press note:
"Guys in the army love sex and gossip. The poster shows how smoking can damage the circulation of blood in those crucial thin veins."
Whose veins ya calling thin, fucknuts?!? Ad agency: 358, Helsinki.
Previously (click at own risk):
• Baby PenisVertising.
• Hung BulgeVertising.
• Tanning DongVertising.
• Fat Yak Ale DickVertising.
• Retoucher BonerVertising.
• DIESEL Big PackageVertising.
• Tomato juice HardOnVertising.
• Circumcision DickheadVertising.
• PlayStation ThumbPenisVertising.
• French energy drink SchlongVertising.
• Australian underwear Big ToolVertising.
• and Dick in a Popcorn Box.

copyranter on ANIMAL NY: Smoking Skills.

Well, this is certainly the most entertaining anti-smoking video I've ever seen. (link)

copyranter on ANIMAL NY: anti-smoking ads via India.

There are so many ways to show that smoking=BAD. This is about the strangest I've ever seen. (link)

copyranter on ANIMAL NY: anti-smoking ads.

They won't deter smoking, but looking at them will make you really dizzy. (link)

copyranter on ANIMAL NY: NHS anti-smoking.

Smoking can kill you. Go watch a UK video of a cigarette beating a man to death from the inside. (link)