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Originally Posted by Van Rijn
If everybody knew and understood, then only kids with a death wish would start smoking, and smoking would be fading away with the older generation. It sometimes seems like people complain more about the messages than the problem the messages are trying to stop. Along similar lines "everybody knows" that they shouldn't drink and drive, and often sneer at messages telling them not to, yet far too many will go out and drink and drive.
I don't know if there is anything that can get people to take this stuff seriously, but if the commercials help with some, I'm all for them.
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But sometimes, if it is done wrong, takes the wrong attitude, or path, a commercial can hurt the message it is trying to make, no matter how well intentioned. I see these TRUTH commercials, and with the way they are done, they just scream, LIE! to me. It doesn't matter if they are, or are not lying, or spinning their view, they way they are done, the whole attitude gives me the impression that they are lying through their teeth.
David.