Shocking Smoking Advertisement
Every day adults, teenagers, and even children face difficult decisions about how they want to live their life. The actions they choose to take can ultimately hold the power to define a person; however, the actions not taken can have even more effect. Over the past couple of years, anti smoking and anti drug advertisements have become prevalent in our society as the use of these substances intensifies. Almost everyone in today’s society has seen the commercials with the older aged smoker who is doomed to talking through a voice box due to their lifelong bad habit of smoking; or others may have seen the classic example of the two pictures displaying a pair of lungs before and after smoking a cigarette. Advertisements…show more content… The young boy feels free, and he loves every minute of it; however, the advertisement takes a drastic turn. His friends are running around and then they jump off the stonewall and out of sight. They all appear to be having so much fun that the young boy is about to join them. The very instant before he jumps, however, he sees what lies on the other side; he sees all of his new friends, lying on the ground, dead. Then for the first time the young boy looks out at the audience, to those watching at home, to show his shock and disbelief that something so terrible could happen so fast and that he was almost a part of it. It took a couple bad decisions to get him to where he was at that moment, looking death in the faces of his quickly gone friends. Had he have been a little more careless, had he not stopped to look at that split second, he, too, would be dead. Following this moving scene, white words come up on the contrastingly black screen reading: “Don’t follow the crowd, think for yourself say NO to SMOKING.” The message is loud and clear, and harshly discourages everyone from hurting him or herself through
