Tobacco Control Videos

New York City airs two Australian Ads

The ads produced originally by Quit Victoria show an actual operation on a woman's neck to remove a blood clot in the main artery to the brain (2007) and a gangrenous foot about to be amputated (2006).
They are aired during sport shows.
Source: New York Post  Watch 1  Watch 2

France: Recycling the 2006 Toxic Corp/Replacement smoker campaign

Young people visit the TOXIC Corp's plant where they see bodies of dead smokers they are recruited to replace: the motto is Tobacco kills one of two smokers. The industry needs you to replace them. Produced for the French Health Ministry via the Health Prevention Agency (INPES). There is also the  TOXIC Corp website.
The clip is on TV from August 20 to September 9.  WATCH, YT      

European Union: the HELP anti-tobacco campaign

This presentation by Pierre Siquier, of the Ligaris Advertising agency, about the HELP campaign is to be delivered during the 4th European Conference on Tobacco or Health.

Switzerland: TV spots 2007

3 spots have been produced in 2007 for the Swiss DOH. They congratulate (Bravo) organizations that have gone smokefree: a university, a hotel, a gymnastic club.
The motto is "Less smoke, more life", the spots are in French, German and Italian.

On YouTube: Ghetto Science - Smoking

This 3 minute + video, produced in Sidney in one hour by Mike Atrix was posted on YouTube on July 15 2007. One month later it has been seen by more than one million people. Thank you to Simon Chapman who pointed it to us :)

Bollywood Actress Rani Mukherji to film an anti-smoking ad

From a blog covering Bollywood we learn that: Apart from a scene or two in her films, Rani Mukerji has never touched a cigarette in her life. A story that Rani has been lately puffing on the cancer stick has her family and friends amused exasperated and bewildered.

Ironically, the story about her smoking comes at a time Rani is all set to do a campaign against smoking.

Says the friend, “Rani had decided to do an anti-smoking campaign on television even before this story came out.

Chantix Users Blog

Google pointed me to this blog devoted to quitting with the help of Chantix. It turns out there are many other bloggers writing about their quit experience: a whole lot of them.