truth.com and the like
There's this new commercial here, I'm not sure if it's airing elsewhere, but I wouldn't be suprised. It's from another one of those anti-big tobacco websites, this one's I think "whatthefxsup.com" or something like that. In this, they claim that big tobacco supports banning sleep. I am not kidding.
Now anyone with half a brain could tell you that every single tobacco executive is a human being, and is thus just as reliant on sleep as the retards behind this commercial.
This made me think of a different issue. Is it really fair that we allow groups to advertise against another group, when that other group cannot legally advertise in its own defense?
It was annoying enough when "truth.org" or "truth.com" or whatever the hell it was called was solely doing anti-smoking ads. I mean, at least the goal is good, and maybe there are some retarded children living under rocks their whole lives who didn't already know that smoking is addictive and bad for you.
But then it seems someone pointed it out to them that anyone who has so much as heard of a cigarette knows that they're bad for you! What? NO!
So anyway, they've turned now to just throwing stones at tobacco executives. Now don't get me wrong, I'd expect tobacco executives to be evil, just as evil as the executives of every other corporation that sells things that kill you (McDonalds, Burger King, Winchestor, etc.) This is not to say that these products are immoral, but I would say that trying to advertise something when you know that someone may in the end die because of a chain of events started by that person seeing that ad would require a certain degree of callousness.
There are a lot of reasons why I smoke, and there are many reasons why I'd like to quit. The morality of the tobacco executives is not a factor. I do not have enough time or money to make sure that everything I purchase is from a moral merchant. And I am inclined to believe whatthefxsup.com knows this is true for just about everyone.
So what this is is a national ad campaign that serves the purpose of drawing a mustache and eyepatch on the metaphorical photographs of tobacco executives. Oh, what courage that must take! Hurling accusations at a group of people that have absolutely no means of defending themselves! Why not go tip over some people's wheel chairs while you're at it!
No one will listen to a tobacco executive's defense, I'm about as sympathetic for big tobacco as they come, and if I see some dude worth hundreds of millions of dollars who's made his fortune selling death sticks, and he starts complaining about people making fun of him, my reaction's gonna be "Oh boo hoo, I feel so sorry for you having to see ads mocking you while you watch your flat screen TV in your Bentley limo that is made of the bones of dead African children".
And that's what sucks. It's not to cool to pick on people who have no means of defense. It is completely possible that there are several tobacco executives who are legitimately good people, and realize what they are doing now is simply supplying a demand. And I don't think it's cool that they are being made a target because liberals don't think people are responsible for their own actions.
I started smoking when I was 9 years old, so if anyone had an argument that they were victimized by big tobacco, it would be me. And I don't deny that there were probably intentionally placed things that played a factor in me wanting to start smoking, but in the end it was 100% me.
I took the cigarette, I lit it, I inhaled it, I enjoyed it, I did it more, and thus I got addicted. I knew it was bad for me, and I knew it was addictive. Thus the single largest factor in my nicotine addiction is my own personal stupidity, and it is the exact same for everyone else who started smoking after they started putting WARNINGS ON THE ACTUAL PACKS OF CIGARETTES THEMSELVES WARNING THE CONSUMER THAT THEY'RE BAD FOR YOU.
It's just a stupid use of resources. If you want to prevent cigarette smoking, open up places to help people quit. Keep a steady stream of things to teach kids that smoking is bad for you.
But just hurling false accusations at people, that's fucked up.
Now anyone with half a brain could tell you that every single tobacco executive is a human being, and is thus just as reliant on sleep as the retards behind this commercial.
This made me think of a different issue. Is it really fair that we allow groups to advertise against another group, when that other group cannot legally advertise in its own defense?
It was annoying enough when "truth.org" or "truth.com" or whatever the hell it was called was solely doing anti-smoking ads. I mean, at least the goal is good, and maybe there are some retarded children living under rocks their whole lives who didn't already know that smoking is addictive and bad for you.
But then it seems someone pointed it out to them that anyone who has so much as heard of a cigarette knows that they're bad for you! What? NO!
So anyway, they've turned now to just throwing stones at tobacco executives. Now don't get me wrong, I'd expect tobacco executives to be evil, just as evil as the executives of every other corporation that sells things that kill you (McDonalds, Burger King, Winchestor, etc.) This is not to say that these products are immoral, but I would say that trying to advertise something when you know that someone may in the end die because of a chain of events started by that person seeing that ad would require a certain degree of callousness.
There are a lot of reasons why I smoke, and there are many reasons why I'd like to quit. The morality of the tobacco executives is not a factor. I do not have enough time or money to make sure that everything I purchase is from a moral merchant. And I am inclined to believe whatthefxsup.com knows this is true for just about everyone.
So what this is is a national ad campaign that serves the purpose of drawing a mustache and eyepatch on the metaphorical photographs of tobacco executives. Oh, what courage that must take! Hurling accusations at a group of people that have absolutely no means of defending themselves! Why not go tip over some people's wheel chairs while you're at it!
No one will listen to a tobacco executive's defense, I'm about as sympathetic for big tobacco as they come, and if I see some dude worth hundreds of millions of dollars who's made his fortune selling death sticks, and he starts complaining about people making fun of him, my reaction's gonna be "Oh boo hoo, I feel so sorry for you having to see ads mocking you while you watch your flat screen TV in your Bentley limo that is made of the bones of dead African children".
And that's what sucks. It's not to cool to pick on people who have no means of defense. It is completely possible that there are several tobacco executives who are legitimately good people, and realize what they are doing now is simply supplying a demand. And I don't think it's cool that they are being made a target because liberals don't think people are responsible for their own actions.
I started smoking when I was 9 years old, so if anyone had an argument that they were victimized by big tobacco, it would be me. And I don't deny that there were probably intentionally placed things that played a factor in me wanting to start smoking, but in the end it was 100% me.
I took the cigarette, I lit it, I inhaled it, I enjoyed it, I did it more, and thus I got addicted. I knew it was bad for me, and I knew it was addictive. Thus the single largest factor in my nicotine addiction is my own personal stupidity, and it is the exact same for everyone else who started smoking after they started putting WARNINGS ON THE ACTUAL PACKS OF CIGARETTES THEMSELVES WARNING THE CONSUMER THAT THEY'RE BAD FOR YOU.
It's just a stupid use of resources. If you want to prevent cigarette smoking, open up places to help people quit. Keep a steady stream of things to teach kids that smoking is bad for you.
But just hurling false accusations at people, that's fucked up.
posted by Galen at 10:41 AM
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