Stealth Cigarette Commercial: Difference between revisions

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* PSA: "There is no safe cigarette. Go to our Web site and read more about the health risks of smoking." Subtext: "Hey, look what good corporate citizens we are! ''And go to our Web site! WE HAVE COUPONS!''"

* Outside TV, note the "If you're thinking about quitting smoking..." brochures sometimes attached to cigarette packages. Inside is information on the health benefits of quitting—information that might reinforce your decision to quit. Of course, as long as the pack is already open...

* There's one in the Netherlands, Canada and the United Kingdom which shows an attractive woman smoking, and then says "Lose The Smoke Keep The Fire". The problem is she still looks sexy smoking, and kind of dorky afterwards. This is a rather indirect version, however, since it's coming from Nicotinell Gum, which doesn't make any money if smokers keep on smoking, but does make money from maintaining a steady consumer base of smokers in need of its product to help them quit. [http://www.nicotinell.nl/index.jsp Here it is].

* There's one in the Netherlands, Canada and the United Kingdom which shows an attractive woman smoking, and then says "Lose The Smoke Keep The Fire". The problem is she still looks sexy smoking, and kind of dorky afterwards. This is a rather indirect version, however, since it's coming from Nicotinell Gum, which doesn't make any money if smokers keep on smoking, but does make money from maintaining a steady consumer base of smokers in need of its product to help them quit. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090414042210/http://www.nicotinell.nl/index.jsp Here it is].

* Philip Morris has recently released a brochure urging parents to discuss ''all'' tobacco products with their kids: not just normal cigarettes, but also cigars, pipes, smokeless tobacco, Indian cigarettes, and clove cigarettes. At least four of these other product types are types Philip Morris does not make. Not to mention that the explicit message is "tell your kids that the tobacco products Philip Morris doesn't make are just as unhealthy as ones it does...

** Wow, Mom and Dad, I guess you learn something new every day! I had no idea there were ''that'' many kinds of tobacco products on the market!

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'''Girl''': [as pageant winner] What a feeling! I'm as happy as a smoker taking that first puff in the morning! }}

* The "Butt Out" episode of ''[[South Park]]'' starts with the boys watching a stage improv group at their school who are trying to deliver an anti-smoking message. Their performance is so annoying that when they announce "But if you ''don't'' smoke, you could be ''just like us!''" the kids run out behind the school immediately afterward and start chain-smoking cigarettes as if their lives depend on it.

* Recently, [[The Onion]] parodied this trope with [http://www.theonion.com/content/video/new_anti_smoking_ads_warn_teens this.]

* Recently, [[The Onion]] parodied this trope with [https://web.archive.org/web/20100317213953/http://www.theonion.com/content/video/new_anti_smoking_ads_warn_teens this.]

* A Capitol Steps sketch has a "smokesman" from Philip Morris report that his company, in the wake of the tobacco settlement, has decided to lead the effort to teach kids about the hazards of smoking by way of a fun new collectible card game called "[[Pokémon|Smokemon]]," in which a "three-pack-a-day hardcore nicotine freak such as Smoke-at-you" can be evolved from a mere casual smoker. He then adds, "I'll tell you, kids: don't smoke cigarettes, okay - [[Smoking Is Cool|unless you want to look really, really cool!]]"

* Viva Variety Cigarettes! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSzCyZhFPqo "Smoking's bad. We're bad."]