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    Think is makes you pretty? One question was in my head when analyzing this ad: why is it a girl who is portrayed and not a boy saying ' Think it makes you handsome?' In this Lipstick print ad, the main goal is to get people to stop smoking cigarettes and promote the dangerous effect smoking has on people. The ad shows a young, pretty girl using a cigarette as lipstick. This visual, along with the written words, persuades the targeted audience very convincingly. Especially, the image; representing

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    Would anyone engage in smoking cigarettes if each cigarette had an effect written on the side, such as lethal, or fatal? Advertisements pop up on the TV commercials, in newspapers, and magazines that illustrate the reality of what happens when engaging in smoking tobacco, but yet people still smoke cigarettes. Some of these advertisements campaigning against big tobacco companies use pretty graphic and shocking images to convince the population that tobacco is just awful for the body. Health organizations

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    all know smoking is bad for our health, but how bad is bad? Smoking can negatively transform people's lives. Did you know, tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of death and disease in the United States? Cigarette smoking kills more than 480,000 Americans each year, with more than 41,000 of those deaths from exposure to secondhand smoke. (citation) In 2008, Nicotinell took action and created an ad then had it published on Havas Worldwide to address the problem that smoking takes the

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    Schumacher Nov. 5, 2017 Anti-Smoking Advertisement; “Smoking Kills” Smoking has a large impact amongst citizens in the United States, with a little less than 20% of the population smoking. Smoking, in the United States, is the number one cause of easily preventable deaths. Seeing these alarming deaths people decided they would make scary and startling advertisements to get the point across. These ads were taking people's breath away, they were seeing the effects of smoking in a light they hadn’t

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    continued to die from lung cancer. This spike in lung cancer was serious and scientist knew that something needed to be done. In 1967 people decided to take matters into their own hands and start anti-smoking campaigns. These campaigns created well thought out ads such as this one where there’s a man hung by a smoking cigarette. With a quote that reads “It’s called suicide because it’s your choice.” The cigarette in the image is supposed to symbolize a noose which is meant to inform smokers that putting

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    1920’s to 1960’s smoking was known to be sexy, glamorus and refreshing. Smoking was part of the norm in society and continued to grow tremendously during the 20th century, up until the 70’s when the idea of smoking turned into a method for weight loss. More and more people wanted to smoke because of all the benefits they thought it would bring to them. With the increase knowledge of health effects in the late 20th century, many people learned that smoking wasn’t safe for our bodies. Smoking turned into

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    clothes, signs, billboards, cars and basically anywhere else you can think of. Companies spend millions of dollars each year trying to publicise their products and to persuade us into buying them. The ongoing battle between promoting smoking and promoting anti-smoking in the advertising world still continues. Cigarette companies spend billions of dollars on advertising and promoting cigarettes each year. According to CDC cigarette companies spent approximately $8.49 billion dollars on advertisements

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    its products. The absence of ethics is most rampant regarding tobacco advertisements. They offer seductive cues, subjective product descriptions, and minimal information on their products. Thus, nearly 443,000 people die prematurely each year from smoking. Tobacco products should not be advertised upon, as these advertisements explore a plethora unethical values. Several searches have revealed articles concerning the unethical advertising of tobacco products. These articles illustrate the laws on advertising

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    How do advertisers make ads to persuade you? Advertisements implement different strategies in order to persuade the viewers using ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos is appealing to the viewers character. Pathos is the way something provokes an emotion. Logos is using numbers and reasoning to persuade an audience. In the anti smoking campaign ads, the creators test the effectiveness of the ads by appealing to the audience using pathos in two different types of ways. The first ad contains an image of a

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    Social Influences on Smoking The tobacco industry is important to the economy. In 1991, worldwide tobacco sales exceeded $59.8 billion and in 1992 the industry was rated as one of the top one hundred advertisers (Pechmann and Ratneshwar, 1994). However, there are high prices to pay - socially, economically, and personally - as a result of this industry. Annual mortality figures indicate that cigarette smoking is the number one cause of preventable death in the United States. An estimated

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