You don't smoke the cigarette. It smokes you.

I am against smoking. It's an addiction that hurts not only the smoker but those around him/her. It's true that any addiction does that at some level, but in this case is so damn obvious. Actually if I think this through and see the ads above, the bad effect it has on us all is inside our bodies so we can not see it. Sometimes what you don't see it's what you get.

It's such a tough choice every time. There's the bad smell but there's the cool gesture. There's the amount of money one spends for cigaretts and there's this feeling of calm smokers claim they get when absorbing the all mighty smoke. There's "I know is bad for me" and there's "it makes me feel good". The good and the evil- the ethernal battle.

I believe smoking is one of the greatest scams in advertising. Some dudes had this product and it was impossible to sell - it killed you and it smelled bad. When the product doesn't have any benefits you invent some. That's how advertising works. So you get this cool guys, cool ladies, powerful characters, independent human beings to smoke in movies, interviews, shows. It's true there's less (classical) advertising for cigaretts these days around the world, but old habits die hard.

And since this subject is hunting me for some while now, I'm asking you guys to send me the no smoking ads you have. I'll try to make a gallery and post it somewhere. And we'll go from there. Maybe there's more we can do.