Top 40+ Creative Ads Made to Stop You Smoking

To tell you the truth, I don’t believe that even the most creative anti-smoking advertisement can make you quit smoking after you see it. It’s just not  how the things work.

When a smoker runs into another anti-smoking ad, often the reaction is – “yes maybe it is cool, but it won’t make me quit – it’s a waste of time and money”. Well of course, one single ad won’t change your mind in a second, but it does create the awareness that smoking is a BAD thing, and when a message is being repeated over an over again – it find its place somewhere deep inside your unconscious mind.

It takes time, but some day it may build up, and it will seem as though as YOU have an idea – “smoking is really a stupid thing to do, I quit!”. What may seem as your own idea, could be a huge job of those creative antismoking ads you used to see everywhere.

So, if you want to help those hooked on smoking, make this list of “Top 40+ Creative Ads Made to Stop You Smoking” VIRAL. Digg it, blog it, share it on Facebook, give thumbs up on StumbleUpon, etc.. – the more people will see it, the more people we will help.

The Smoke

Shotgun

“The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation. passivesmokingkills.org”

Advertising Agency: CHI and Partners, UK

Gun

Credit: Gitam-BBDO Israel

More information

“For more information on lung cancer, keep smoking.”

Advertising Agency: TBWA\Vancouver, Canada

Deathbed

Advertising Agency: CHI&Partners, London, UK

Sex Life

“Smoking Can Affect Your Sex Life”

Credits: surajit soms

You smoke. We smoke.

Credit: BatesPANGULF, Dubai; AD: Fahad Shehadat, CW: Bipen Jacob

Suicide vs Homicide

“Suicide — Homicide. The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation. passivesmokingkills.org”

Advertising Agency: CHI and Partners, UK

Passive Smoking: 5 a day

“Passive smoking kills 5 people a day. The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation. passivesmokingkills.org”

Advertising Agency: CHI and Partners, UK

Eyesight

“Smoking can kill your eyesight first.”

Agency: Team Young & Rubicam, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Jumping off buildings harms

“Jumping off buildings when pregnant harms your baby”

“You wouldn’t ignore this warning. Why ignore them on cigarette packs?”

Agency: Lowe Bull, Johannesburg, South Africa

Die Younger

“People who stand here die younger”

“You wouldn’t ignore this warning. Why ignore them on cigarette packs?”

Agency: Lowe Bull, Johannesburg, South Africa

Monsters

Agency: Euro RSCG, India

Poisoning

“Smoking kills 30 times more people than poisoning.”

Advertising Agency: 1pointsize, Chennai, India

Chemicals

“…Xantham Gum, 3,4-Xylenol, Yeast and there are another 4000 chemicals found in cigarette smoke. Say no to smoking.”

Advertising Agency: The Classic Partnership Advertising, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Cancer cures

Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, India |Award: Gold Lion, Cannes, 2003

Get to heaven earlier

“Children of parents who smoke, get to heaven earlier.”

Advertising Agency: Serviceplan, München/Hamburg, Germany

Creative director: Ekki Frenkler | Art Director: Sybille Stempel | Copywriters: Carlos Obers, Christine Deinhart | October 2006

Water

“SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: Drinking This Water Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema, And May Complicate Pregnancy”

“Would you drink it?”

Advertising Agency: Intermarkets, Dubai, UAE

Terrorism

“Terrorism-related deaths since 2001: 11,377. Tobacco-related deaths since 2001: 30,000,000.”

Advertising Agency: DDB New Zealand

Smoking is harmful to your breath

“Smoking is harmful to your breath. National Committee Against Tobacco www.cnct.org”

Agency: TBWA, Paris, France

Lungs

Advertising Agency: NeogamaBBH, Brazil

Reduces weight

Touchstone Advertising, Mumbai; Aditya Uphadayay, Kailash Chaudhari, Shoeb Shaikh, Raju Gawde

Cemetery

Agency: Everest Brand Solutions, India

Smoke Demon

Roughly: “What people call a puff, the bible calls something else.”

Advertising Agency: Neogama BBH, Brazil

Charms

“Agency: GMASCO Marketing Communications, Dubai, UAE”

Hooked

The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation. passivesmokingkills.org

Advertising Agency: CHI and Partners, UK

LEGO

“Everything you do affects your chilfren. Stop smoking with Nicorette.”

Advertising Agency: Draftfcb Kobza, Wien, Austria

Non-Smoking Pub

“The First Non-Smoking Pub in UAE.”

Creatives: Jaywant Dabholkar, Porus Jose, Tushar Mahajan

Maze

Suicide

“It’s called suicide because it’s your choice.

Give up smoking: 0 8008 700 700”

Advertising Agency: Mercury 360, Bucharest, Romania | Published: December 2008

Non Smoking Area

Advertising Agency: TBWA\Athens, Greece

Creative Director: Vangelis Vrouvas

Worst Side

“Secondhand smokers are on the worst side of the cigarette.”

Advertising Agency: BDDP Unlimited, Paris, France

Second hand smoke

“Second hand smoke in the home hospitalises 17,000 UK every year.”

Advertising Agency: Chi & Partners, London, UK | Creative Director: Ewan Paterson | December 2008

It’s murder

“Smoking isn’t just suicide. It’s murder.”

Advertising Agency: DRAFT FCB + IDB

Just looking at them makes you sick

“Cigarettes. Just looking at them makes you sick.”

Advertising Agency: JWT, Brazil

Poor swimmers

An award winning advert for ASH depicting the effect of smoking on male fertility, created by Clear Marketing Communications: Writer: Andy Fenton and Art Director: Jason Chadwick

Carry on

The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation. passivesmokingkills.org

Advertising Agency: CHI and Partners, UK

Lips

Smoke

Quick vs Slow

P.S.: if you want to help those hooked on smoking, make this list of “Top 40+ Creative Ads Made to Stop You Smoking” VIRAL. Digg it, share it on Facebook, thumbs up on StumbleUpon, etc.. – the more people will see it, the more people we will help.

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