Tobacco Control Videos

United Kingdom, Quit because: Sexiness in a stick

Quit has produced two new web-videos and both are on YouTube: Sexiness in a stick and Smoking Fox (or The Ventriloquist). Quit has also opened a channel on YouTube.

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      

For Smoke-Free Restaurants in Pennsylvania

This video is an example of a very simple way to film and distribute your tobacco control message. Here on YouTube. Simply a series of testimonies about smoke-free restaurants. Produced by the youth group BUSTED.

Promoting Smoking On YouTube

Taylo is an 18 year old YouTuber who shares her opinion and advice about smoking.  Go and see for yourself. I find her quite dangerous with her very cool, simplistic, matter of fact, this is my personal opinion, style. So does Jay Winsten.

Colorado: Own Your C

This unorthodox anti-smoking campaign takes aim at teens, encouraging making good choices decisions and not mentioning tobacco. WATCH the 3 spots on YouTube. I must admit they do not resonate much with me but I am not the target :) Of course there is also the website. Still...

Teens' toxic shock blitz in Australia

TEENAGERS are the target of the new national tobacco youth campaign: new shock ads that show smokers inhaling chemicals such as those in paint stripper, toilet cleaner and nail polish remover. The hard-hitting ad will air from december 26, confronting young people with the deadly reality of nicotine addiction. WATCH

Joanne

A classic antismoking TV ad produced in 1994 for the Health Department of Ontario. On YouTube.

Tak Nak from Malaysia

The Tak Nak campaign took place in Malaysia in 2005. Apparently with mixed results.
WATCH the five TV Ads.

If you smoke, you stink

Recent TV ads by NHS in the UK include two messages targeting young adults: If you smoke you stink for young women and the Finger Legs spot (about male impotence in smokers) for young men.
WATCH (Stink) on MMC and on YT

WATCH (Finger Legs) on YouTube