Top 40+ Creative Ads Made to Stop You Smoking
By Bored Panda • Topic: Cool Ads, Featured, Latest PostTo tell you the truth, I don’t believe that even the most creative anti-smoking advertisement can make you quit smoking after you see it. It’s just not how the things work.
When a smoker runs into another anti-smoking ad, often the reaction is – “yes maybe it is cool, but it won’t make me quit – it’s a waste of time and money”. Well of course, one single ad won’t change your mind in a second, but it does create the awareness that smoking is a BAD thing, and when a message is being repeated over an over again – it find its place somewhere deep inside your unconscious mind.
It takes time, but some day it may build up, and it will seem as though as YOU have an idea – “smoking is really a stupid thing to do, I quit!”. What may seem as your own idea, could be a huge job of those creative antismoking ads you used to see everywhere.
So, if you want to help those hooked on smoking, make this list of “Top 40+ Creative Ads Made to Stop You Smoking” VIRAL. Digg it, blog it, share it on Facebook, give thumbs up on StumbleUpon, etc.. – the more people will see it, the more people we will help.
The Smoke
(lucaszoltowski.deviantart.com via boredpanda)
Shotgun
(via boredpanda)
“The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation. passivesmokingkills.org”
Advertising Agency: CHI and Partners, UK
Gun
(via via boredpanda)
Credit: Gitam-BBDO Israel
More information
(via via boredpanda)
“For more information on lung cancer, keep smoking.”
Advertising Agency: TBWA\Vancouver, Canada
Deathbed
(via boredpanda)
Advertising Agency: CHI&Partners, London, UK
Sex Life
(via boredpanda)
“Smoking Can Affect Your Sex Life”
Credits: surajit soms
You smoke. We smoke.
(via boredpanda)
Credit: BatesPANGULF, Dubai; AD: Fahad Shehadat, CW: Bipen Jacob
Suicide vs Homicide
(via boredpanda)
“Suicide — Homicide. The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation. passivesmokingkills.org”
Advertising Agency: CHI and Partners, UK
Breast
(via boredpanda)
“Women who smoke feed more than just milk to their children.
Research indicates that chemicals from tobacco smoke are transmitted via breast milk. So, stop smoking.”
Advertising Agency: Bhadra Communications, Bangalore, India
Passive Smoking: 5 a day
(via boredpanda)
“Passive smoking kills 5 people a day. The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation. passivesmokingkills.org”
Advertising Agency: CHI and Partners, UK
Eyesight
(via boredpanda)
“Smoking can kill your eyesight first.”
Agency: Team Young & Rubicam, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Jumping off buildings harms
(via boredpanda)
“Jumping off buildings when pregnant harms your baby”
“You wouldn’t ignore this warning. Why ignore them on cigarette packs?”
Agency: Lowe Bull, Johannesburg, South Africa
Die Younger
(via boredpanda)
“People who stand here die younger”
“You wouldn’t ignore this warning. Why ignore them on cigarette packs?”
Agency: Lowe Bull, Johannesburg, South Africa
Monsters
(via boredpanda)
Agency: Euro RSCG, India
Poisoning
(via boredpanda)
“Smoking kills 30 times more people than poisoning.”
Advertising Agency: 1pointsize, Chennai, India
Chemicals
(via boredpanda)
“…Xantham Gum, 3,4-Xylenol, Yeast and there are another 4000 chemicals found in cigarette smoke. Say no to smoking.”
Advertising Agency: The Classic Partnership Advertising, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Cancer cures
(via boredpanda)
Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, India |Award: Gold Lion, Cannes, 2003
Get to heaven earlier
(via boredpanda)
“Children of parents who smoke, get to heaven earlier.”
Advertising Agency: Serviceplan, München/Hamburg, Germany
Creative director: Ekki Frenkler | Art Director: Sybille Stempel | Copywriters: Carlos Obers, Christine Deinhart | October 2006
Water
(via boredpanda)
“SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: Drinking This Water Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema, And May Complicate Pregnancy”
“Would you drink it?”
Advertising Agency: Intermarkets, Dubai, UAE
Terrorism
(via boredpanda)
“Terrorism-related deaths since 2001: 11,377. Tobacco-related deaths since 2001: 30,000,000.”
Advertising Agency: DDB New Zealand
Smoking is harmful to your breath
(via boredpanda)
“Smoking is harmful to your breath. National Committee Against Tobacco www.cnct.org”
Agency: TBWA, Paris, France
Lungs
(via boredpanda)
Advertising Agency: NeogamaBBH, Brazil
Reduces weight
(via boredpanda)
Touchstone Advertising, Mumbai; Aditya Uphadayay, Kailash Chaudhari, Shoeb Shaikh, Raju Gawde
Cemetery
(via boredpanda)
Agency: Everest Brand Solutions, India
Smoke Demon
(via boredpanda)
Roughly: “What people call a puff, the bible calls something else.”
Advertising Agency: Neogama BBH, Brazil
Charms
(via boredpanda)
“Agency: GMASCO Marketing Communications, Dubai, UAE”
Hooked
(via boredpanda)
The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation. passivesmokingkills.org
Advertising Agency: CHI and Partners, UK
LEGO
(via boredpanda)
“Everything you do affects your chilfren. Stop smoking with Nicorette.”
Advertising Agency: Draftfcb Kobza, Wien, Austria
Non-Smoking Pub
(via boredpanda)
“The First Non-Smoking Pub in UAE.”
Creatives: Jaywant Dabholkar, Porus Jose, Tushar Mahajan
Maze
(via boredpanda)
Suicide
(via boredpanda)
“It’s called suicide because it’s your choice.
Give up smoking: 0 8008 700 700”
Advertising Agency: Mercury 360, Bucharest, Romania | Published: December 2008
Non Smoking Area
(via boredpanda)
Advertising Agency: TBWA\Athens, Greece
Creative Director: Vangelis Vrouvas
Worst Side
(via boredpanda)
“Secondhand smokers are on the worst side of the cigarette.”
Advertising Agency: BDDP Unlimited, Paris, France
Second hand smoke
(via boredpanda)
“Second hand smoke in the home hospitalises 17,000 UK every year.”
Advertising Agency: Chi & Partners, London, UK | Creative Director: Ewan Paterson | December 2008
It’s murder
(via boredpanda)
“Smoking isn’t just suicide. It’s murder.”
Advertising Agency: DRAFT FCB + IDB
Just looking at them makes you sick
(via boredpanda)
“Cigarettes. Just looking at them makes you sick.”
Advertising Agency: JWT, Brazil
Poor swimmers
(via boredpanda)
An award winning advert for ASH depicting the effect of smoking on male fertility, created by Clear Marketing Communications: Writer: Andy Fenton and Art Director: Jason Chadwick
Carry on
(via boredpanda)
The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation. passivesmokingkills.org
Advertising Agency: CHI and Partners, UK
Lips
(via boredpanda)
Smoke
(via boredpanda)
Quick vs Slow
(via boredpanda)
P.S.: if you want to help those hooked on smoking, make this list of “Top 40+ Creative Ads Made to Stop You Smoking” VIRAL. Digg it, share it on Facebook, thumbs up on StumbleUpon, etc.. – the more people will see it, the more people we will help.
P.S2. don’t forget to check The Facts About Smoking [Pic]
Share with other pandas:
Date posted: Nov 23rd, 2009
I’m not even a smoker and I find most of these ads not only incredibly patronizing, but false. Second hand smoke isn’t all that dangerous.
Is the goal of these ads to prove that smoking is dangerous and gross? If so, they’re terrific. I’d rather see a brilliant campaign offer help to the people in the grip of this vice. Isn’t what we want a world where smokers can quit, rather than just be chastised for their choices?
Beautiful campaigns!
For those who love creative ads, I also recommand: http://dyvantity.com/inspiration/focus-on-vokswagen-prints-12/
Regards!
Damn….What a crazy kind of advertising….Sadly, I haven’t seen this before. The people who have created these ads should get a price. And they should try to distribute it. If tv channels would broadcast it, if newspapers would print it, i think the rate of smokers would decrease.
To be honest, i am a smoker. But since I have seen those pictures I am thinking about them.
The creativity is amazing….Please publish those ads all over the world….
Wow! Do you know which ones were most effective? And what type of statistics are available as far as the effectiveness of these campaigns? This is really cool! Smoking = Stupid.
According to CDC, approximately 38,000 deaths per year can be attributed to secondhand smoke. Nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke at home or work increase their risk of developing heart disease by 25 to 30 percent and lung cancer by 20 to 30 percent. In addition, secondhand smoke causes respiratory problems in nonsmokers, such as coughing, phlegm, and reduced lung function. Children exposed to secondhand smoke are at an increased risk for sudden infant death syndrome, acute respiratory infections, ear problems, and more severe asthma.
Today I decided to give up smoking. I looked these up to give me inspiration – job done.
Awesome! That’s a really inspiring to quit smoking. I should try at least.
it’s all crap and none of them will stop noone smoking. You better read a book of /allen .carr ‘ easyway to stop smoking’ and u will find a solution. since ive rode this 6 months ago I reduced smoking from 20 to 0 in one day and i have never felt better than now. Good luck
@bart noone is saying that these ads stop you smoking instantly. Oh and the funniest thing is that some comments above you say about quiting LOL
Very creative yet powerful adverts designed to promote one message…stop smoking. I’m an ex smoker but it takes more than looking at pictures to quit – it takes will power and support from peers around you. But stick at it and you will get there in the end…it’s worth it. Now I can’t believe I used to put that sh!t inside me!
To Mr. eX. If you seriously believe second hand smoke “isn’t all that dangerous” you have a whole lot to learn. When you smoke a cigarette, at least there is a filter on the cigarette so a few things get filtered out but the smoke that still burns of the tip has no filter. meaning everyone around is inhaling more chemicals than the smoker themselves. Also many smokers don’t take full lungfuls of smoke however the people around are breathing regularly and every breath they take is filled with chemicals that they have no choice to breathe in or not adults at least can choose not to be around this person but children with smoking parents don’t even have this choice. They are basically being forced by their parents to smoke.
Some great ideas here – and a lot of dark humour.
Always a surprise to me when people take to ash.
Whatever lights your candle …
Cheers
Will
NoSmoke: “meaning everyone around is inhaling more chemicals than the smoker themselves”
What? I agree on most of your points but that doesn’t make much sence.
I just quit smoking 2 days ago, still haven’t touched one. These adds might help a bit yeah, remembers me what i’m doing it for. At this moment it’s just willpower, and the idea to be in control of my own body instead of the nicotine.
Except for parents with children i find the whole “smoking is homocide” thing pretty stupid. If you don’t want to inhale smoke make sure you don’t stand near smokers. Besides the smoke from vehicles is killing a lot more people than a few smokers could.
I’m going to grab another cookie, not smoking makes me want to eat.
This page made me want a cigarette something fierce.
@Ferret I hate to say it, but I agree with you. rofl I guess another one bites the dust eh?
@Ferret you’ve got no idea
@Kaizu I quit two days ago as well and Ferret’s post is true, that’s what these ad’s provoked in me. I’m quitting just because I have an opportunity to and I guess I should take it, because you’re supposed to quit… right?
Brilliant ideas!
Grats for the blog, im addicted to your contents. Weekly impressive updates. I hope u update eventually xdd
meh, I smoke, not a chain smoker not a pack a day person or even close. but These don’t affect me. i laugh at most of those
Well i smoked for 4 years. I started quitting 3 weeks ago. To be honest about the second hand smoke; with an exception to children and parents, second hand smoke isn’t more harmful than smoking. All of my friends smoke and most of my family members smoke, and all of the smokers i know are extremely considerate of “non” smokers. They all make sure they are far from others that do not smoke. I think most smokers are like this, therefore second hand smoke is bull. In addition, the non smokers that come up to smokers to ask them to put it out are stupid. They are walking into the smoke and choosing to inhale the second hand smoke. There are a lot of dumb non smokers who need to become educated about smoking before they try to persecute those who smoke. And as for these ads, they are pretty comical. And some do tempt one to smoke.
awesome, the simplest ones are the best. — shotgun and the hospital bed…its like wow! thats pure creativity!
“Carry on taking rubbish in to your mouth” is rubbish itself.The one who made it is either feminist or is having wierd prejudices against oral sex. Also – if sperm is rubbish, what are we, who evolve fom it? x]
I wonder how many of these comments are from people wo actually know the statistics, or if they had to copy/paste to feel that they have proven some sort of point. The fact of the matter is that tobacco is a plant that grew on God’s green earth long before people decided to smoke it. Plant= not to blame. The use of the product, while unhealthy, is what’s called a personal choice. don’t judge me for my choices, just as i don’t judge those who drink, or eat that horrific fast food (which, by the way, i would consider to be ruining far more lives) that everyone seems to be so excited about. Smokers don’t need this grief. Ask any smoker if they know how bad it is for them, they’ll say they know and implore you to not get into it. it’s not a matter of education. if you want more people to quit, leave the information where it is and leave them alone. those who will quit will quit and those who accept the consequence of their personal choice can take the chances, which aren’t nearly as bad as it seems. cigarettes don’t cause cancer, they just increase the risk.
creative ads, but some were too offensive to be ignored. leave me alone to smoke.
NoSmoke: Are you serious? You mean that if i smoke cigarettes i dont inhale secondary smoke? I inhale BOTH secondary smoke and the “original one”, so how come non-smokers inhale more harmful chemicals?
wow uhh the comment that says secondhand isnt that bad is kind of dumb..
second hand smoke is one of the most dangerous things out there. if you work in a smoking bar for 5 years you have a greater chance of getting lung cancer than anyone else. think about it.
Fortunately, the universities have smoke-free. We’ve had enough already when we inhale the smoke of smokers. Universities should be smoke free.
Great site and nice pictures you have posted. Awesome!
I stop smoking after been hypnose. It is one of the best way. Give it a try.
wow, kewl ads! *exhaling smoke* RT @ms_garfield http://www.boredpanda.com/top-40-cool-creative-antismoking-ads/ @karinapatria Woohoo!
This comment was originally posted on Twitter