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Some anti-cigarette ads can trigger desire to smoke
« on: June 29, 2013, 06:55:10 PM »
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/many-anticigarette-ads-actually-trigger-desire-smoke-study-210054610.html

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A new study finds that some anti-cigarette messages in public service announcements have an unintended result: They trigger viewers' desire to smoke.
I thought this headline was too good to pass up.  I don't smoke, but I really hate most of those idiotic anti-smoking commercials. 

Considering the many things people do that is bad for their health, smokers are an oppressed minority. 
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Re: Some anti-cigarette ads can trigger desire to smoke
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2013, 07:05:49 PM »
Reminds me of when people I've known that were in the process of quitting, and others ask them about it. I've always wondered if that just made it harder, to bring up what they're trying to avoid thinking about.
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Re: Some anti-cigarette ads can trigger desire to smoke
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2013, 07:10:37 PM »
Funny enough, watching Intervention makes me want a drink. 
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Re: Some anti-cigarette ads can trigger desire to smoke
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2013, 07:31:20 PM »
I light up when I see them. Not due to any urge to smoke caused by seeing a smoker, but simply because they tick me off and I raise my nicotine treat in defiance.

I swear, the people who know me should really know better. The more I get told to stop the more I want to continue. I just have that particular personality trait.
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Re: Some anti-cigarette ads can trigger desire to smoke
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2013, 07:44:41 PM »
I hate those commercials with a passion. They just rub me the wrong way, like there's more to them than simply trying to help people to quit.
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Re: Some anti-cigarette ads can trigger desire to smoke
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2013, 08:23:17 PM »
Quote from: freakazoid on June 29, 2013, 07:44:41 PM
like there's more to them than simply trying to help people to quit.

Well duh.
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Re: Some anti-cigarette ads can trigger desire to smoke
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2013, 08:29:40 PM »
Quote from: bluestarlizzard on June 29, 2013, 07:31:20 PM
I swear, the people who know me should really know better. The more I get told to stop the more I want to continue. I just have that particular personality trait.

A sister of St. Paul, I see.
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Re: Some anti-cigarette ads can trigger desire to smoke
« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2013, 10:27:38 PM »
I have that same trait. If somebody tells me I can't do something, I say "why not?" Sometimes I think I put off quitting smoking just out of spite against the anti-smoking crowd.
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Re: Some anti-cigarette ads can trigger desire to smoke
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2013, 07:36:12 AM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on June 29, 2013, 06:55:10 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/many-anticigarette-ads-actually-trigger-desire-smoke-study-210054610.html
I thought this headline was too good to pass up.  I don't smoke, but I really hate most of those idiotic anti-smoking commercials. 

Considering the many things people do that is bad for their health, smokers are an oppressed minority. 

healthy eating nags can trigger a desire for bacon.
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Re: Some anti-cigarette ads can trigger desire to smoke
« Reply #9 on: June 30, 2013, 09:20:35 AM »
Quote from: lee n. field on June 30, 2013, 07:36:12 AM
healthy eating nags can trigger a desire for bacon.

Bacon IS healthy.
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Re: Some anti-cigarette ads can trigger desire to smoke
« Reply #10 on: June 30, 2013, 10:58:24 AM »
They make me want to smoke and I'm a 1 pack and 2 cigars a year guy. Some serious money behind those campaigns and unfortunately some of it is probably ours.
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Re: Some anti-cigarette ads can trigger desire to smoke
« Reply #11 on: June 30, 2013, 11:06:11 AM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqsOKNo9mk0

When conformity and groupthink are represented as a big bucket of failjuice, smoking becomes more appealing.
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Re: Some anti-cigarette ads can trigger desire to smoke
« Reply #12 on: July 01, 2013, 09:00:21 AM »
Quote from: Doggy Daddy on June 30, 2013, 09:20:35 AM
Bacon IS healthy.

I suspect the contributing hog has a different opinion...  ;)

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Re: Some anti-cigarette ads can trigger desire to smoke
« Reply #13 on: July 01, 2013, 12:29:45 PM »
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Tom joined the new order of Cadets of Temperance, being attracted by the showy character of their "regalia." He promised to abstain from smoking, chewing, and profanity as long as he remained a member. Now he found out a new thing—namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. Tom soon found himself tormented with a desire to drink and swear; the desire grew to be so intense that nothing but the hope of a chance to display himself in his red sash kept him from withdrawing from the order.

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Re: Some anti-cigarette ads can trigger desire to smoke
« Reply #14 on: July 01, 2013, 08:10:01 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on June 30, 2013, 11:06:11 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqsOKNo9mk0

When conformity and groupthink are represented as a big bucket of failjuice, smoking becomes more appealing.
Loved that SP episode. 
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