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A ''deliberate'' [[Broken Aesop]] that may play on [[Our Product Sucks]] and is probably one of the most extreme versions of [[The Man Is Sticking It to the Man]]. (He's been ''ordered by the court'' to stick it to himself.) See also [[Smoking Is Cool]].

 

* Stealth PSA motto: "Tobacco is wacko -- if you're a teen." Subtext: "Smoking separates the adults from the mere teenagers."

** This is especially bad, because teenagers spend so much effort trying to be perceived as adults - that's the whole ''point'' of many of them taking up smoking!

** According to some historians, the makers of Vine-Glo (a grape juice concentrate sold during Prohibition) sent demonstrators out to stores to show how easy it was to convert the block into refreshing and legal grape juice. Those demonstrators ''also'' showed exactly what you should not do, lest your grape juice "accidentally" turn into wine.

 

* In [[The Simpsons]] episode "Lisa the Beauty Queen", Laramie Cigarettes sponsor the Little Miss Springfield Pageant.

{{quote|'''Father''': Wow, president of Laramie Cigarettes, Jack Larson!