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Australia's Grotesque Anti-Smoking Ads: Collect 'Em All!

Where: Australia
March 8, 2007 at 11:45 AM | by | Comment (1)

This is the sign that greeted us in the Duty-Free store after we deplaned at Sydney Airport. (FYI, the duty-free pushers on Qantas and at the airport are relentless.)

Australia has been on a Quit Smoking blitz for the past few years, and now they have committed at least $25 million for the next four years to educate teens about the dangers of smoking.

Most of this education relies on graphic pictures of the health effects of smoking, which you can see after the jump.

A few days after being in Sydney, we, er, someone we know, happened to purchase a pack of cigarettes and found this on the back.



If you want to collect all the photos, look for the dying child (who was harmed by secondhand smoke) and the ever-popular gangrene foot.

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They have a point, y'know

like that catchy jingle, sung through a "cancer kazoo," a la the Vietnam Vet character in South Park, says:

oh you don't always die from tobacco
sometimes you just lose a lung
oh you don't always die from tobacco
sometimes they just snip out your tongue
and you won't sing worth a heck
with a big hole in your neck
'cuz you don't always die from tobaccoooooo....

Wrote that from memory, because it's on all the time (you can watch it on the Truth's website: http://www.thetruth.com/)

cokane on March 8, 2007 at 1:00 PM #Permalink

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