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So back in March I went to grab a pack of cigarettes and I found some called American Spirits. They said that they are 100% additive free. The word additive, looks alot like addictive. Now to see a cigarette that is addictive free (as Bob Dole knows) I was stoked as I know that I won't be addicted!! All the sudden I'm healthy. Ok, so I was stoked when I got back to my apartment. I knew about these brand but, I guess I never really looked at them.
So I'm having one on the porch of my apartment and I re-read the label and of course it says 'additive free'. So I feel dumb but that made me buy spirts, rather than my norm of the Camel Lights. Camel's have many different additives in them so they taste different and also not pure tobacco. In all reality though, American Spirts are better for you...as far as smoking goes. Its pure tobacco. As far as advertising goes, it worked great to use the word additive on the spirts box, because I ended up buying them. However, the interesting thing here in Europe is that all the cigarette packages let you know you will die if you keep smoking.
Duh.
The most repulsive thing to me is when people let me know how bad smoking is for me. I know. I want to quit. I don't know a smoker that doesn't want to quit. Anyone who enjoys spending 5 bucks on a pack, 5 quid on a pack (or 10 bucks). We all know how bad it is. The cigarettes here show me how bad it is and I don't think its very effective.
If they had a picture of a family, and on the back it said that the father was killed by lung cancer. Maybe that would have a bigger impact. Yet, smokers are invincible, we know we won't get lung cancer because we're gonna quit. If they had something like this I think it would work a lot better...
This is how much you spend on smoking: 170 dollars a month on cigarettes
What else you could buy: Skydiving, $180. 27 inch plasma screen t.v $270 (two months of smoking) Great night at the Penny: $50. 30 minute massage $30, what you spend a week.
Something that would make you think, more than get annoyed at. But then again I draw from my earlier post about the English being so blunt, so I guess it may work for their culture. Maybe not for the U.S.
So I'm having one on the porch of my apartment and I re-read the label and of course it says 'additive free'. So I feel dumb but that made me buy spirts, rather than my norm of the Camel Lights. Camel's have many different additives in them so they taste different and also not pure tobacco. In all reality though, American Spirts are better for you...as far as smoking goes. Its pure tobacco. As far as advertising goes, it worked great to use the word additive on the spirts box, because I ended up buying them. However, the interesting thing here in Europe is that all the cigarette packages let you know you will die if you keep smoking.
Duh.
The most repulsive thing to me is when people let me know how bad smoking is for me. I know. I want to quit. I don't know a smoker that doesn't want to quit. Anyone who enjoys spending 5 bucks on a pack, 5 quid on a pack (or 10 bucks). We all know how bad it is. The cigarettes here show me how bad it is and I don't think its very effective.
If they had a picture of a family, and on the back it said that the father was killed by lung cancer. Maybe that would have a bigger impact. Yet, smokers are invincible, we know we won't get lung cancer because we're gonna quit. If they had something like this I think it would work a lot better...
This is how much you spend on smoking: 170 dollars a month on cigarettes
What else you could buy: Skydiving, $180. 27 inch plasma screen t.v $270 (two months of smoking) Great night at the Penny: $50. 30 minute massage $30, what you spend a week.
Something that would make you think, more than get annoyed at. But then again I draw from my earlier post about the English being so blunt, so I guess it may work for their culture. Maybe not for the U.S.
posted by Godfather | 5:54 AM
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