Tobacco Control Videos

The Critics' Choice 2007

The Critic's Choice program runs from May 30 to September 29: students in various Australian states will watch and rate 12 anti-smoking TV ads. An interesting initiative.

A Thematic Typology Of Anti-smoking Spots, by Richard Raskin

This article published by Richard Raskin in March 2005 is an interesting attempt to build a typology of anti-smoking spots. Unfortunately many of the links to the actual spots posted at the end no longer work. Interviews with film makers and producers bring  useful context.

J'arrête, j'y gagne, Quit and Win, in Québec

This short ad (15 sec) was aired to promote the yearly Quit and Win competition in Québec. 25K+ smokers took part. WATCH (in French).

Cigarettes Falling From The Sky On Children

This famous clip from California where cigarettes fall from the sky ends up with the line: "How low will they go to make a profit". On YouTube

Don't smoke around your child: Quit

This ad about children and secondhand smoke was produced for the Free Michigan Quitline in 2004. Found on YouTube via a blogger who has collected a series of anti-smoking videos (from YouTube)

Trish Cotter about the media campaigns of the Cancer Institute in New South Wales

This cyber-interview was originally posted in the Rendez-vous blog.

Thank you Trish for taking the time to be with us today.
May I ask you to introduce yourself?

Trish Cotter: My first ever job after University (BSc) was with the Victorian Quit Campaign (over 20 years ago). It was just being set up and I was the second person to be employed.  My first role was as a project assistant and I expected to be at Quit Victoria for 12 months and then move on to something else.  Thirteen years later I finally moved on having had many different roles and seen lots of exciting changes such as banning tobacco advertising and the first well funded mass media campaigns.

This cyber-interview was originally posted in the Rendez-vous blog.

Thank you Trish for taking the time to be with us today.
May I ask you to introduce yourself?

Trish Cotter: My first ever job after University (BSc) was with the Victorian Quit Campaign (over 20 years ago). It was just being set up and I was the second person to be employed.  My first role was as a project assistant and I expected to be at Quit Victoria for 12 months and then move on to something else.  Thirteen years later I finally moved on having had many different roles and seen lots of exciting changes such as banning tobacco advertising and the first well funded mass media campaigns.

There are many methods to quit smoking.

That's the theme of this TV ad produced for UK's gosmokefree.
Also in the Globalink's multimedia center :)

Lunchbox

This TV ad posted on YouTube is supposedly from the UK's NHS but that needs to be verified. WATCH

Another EU-HELP TV Ad: "Absurd Zone"

The name of this campaign is "Absurd Zone".
WATCH

Also on the Help Ad-Folio.

Thanks Tobacco: You Killed My Mom

This video has been posted on YouTube. It documents (10 minutes) the ordeal of of a mother having lung cancer and a stroke. The children who filmed explain they wanted to honor their Mom's last wishes: tell people not to smoke.