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Jan. 12th, 2004 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liadnanAll of a sudden I am busy again: Northampton tomorrow, and some other jobs in the diary. Just as I was about to start actively doing something about the novel too. Oh well.
Finally, can I just say that the new UK anti-smoking adverts are genuinely repulsive. I am considering complaining: I have a right not to be traumatised like this.
No, I'm not to be taken seriously: I was thinking about the, to my mind, ridiculous decision of the ASA to ban that Barnardo's campaign last month for being too shocking. Bah. For those not resident in this sceptered isle, the campaign featured babies with cockroaches, hypodermics, etc in their mouths and the strapline "not every child is born with a silver spoon" or similar. Yes, of course it was shocking. Duh. Join the dots.
The anti-smoking campaign, which graphically focuses on heart problems and fat by showing images of cigarettes filled with what appears to be lard, has come closer than any other ad campaign I have ever seen to stopping me from smoking. No banana as yet though. Curiously, the reason is not that I think any more than I ever did before about the amount of crap I put into my system every day, and what it's doing to what is left of my health, but that it's so icky.
Finally, can I just say that the new UK anti-smoking adverts are genuinely repulsive. I am considering complaining: I have a right not to be traumatised like this.
No, I'm not to be taken seriously: I was thinking about the, to my mind, ridiculous decision of the ASA to ban that Barnardo's campaign last month for being too shocking. Bah. For those not resident in this sceptered isle, the campaign featured babies with cockroaches, hypodermics, etc in their mouths and the strapline "not every child is born with a silver spoon" or similar. Yes, of course it was shocking. Duh. Join the dots.
The anti-smoking campaign, which graphically focuses on heart problems and fat by showing images of cigarettes filled with what appears to be lard, has come closer than any other ad campaign I have ever seen to stopping me from smoking. No banana as yet though. Curiously, the reason is not that I think any more than I ever did before about the amount of crap I put into my system every day, and what it's doing to what is left of my health, but that it's so icky.
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Date: 2004-01-12 09:02 am (UTC)Can you still smoke indoors in London?
Can you still smoke indoors in London?
Date: 2004-01-12 09:09 am (UTC)No, but really, these ads show people smoking.. only great Big Stonking Gobs Of White Fat come out the end, on the tv ones. And the hoarding ones show cigarettes cut open to show Tubes of Fat. Really really vile.
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Date: 2004-01-12 12:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-12 01:20 pm (UTC)*shrug* if Japan comes off then I won't be smoking there. I'll leave kicking the habit til then I think.
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Date: 2004-01-13 06:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-13 06:29 am (UTC)*"In the long run, we are all dead."
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Date: 2004-01-13 07:45 am (UTC)no subject
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