Legal smokescreen
Graphic anti smoking advertising is part and parcel of everyday life here in Australia.
This is obviously not the case in America where big tobacco companies have filed suit against the New York City anti-smoking campaign.
The tobacco companies claim the images of cancer ravaged lungs, a rotten tooth and a stroke affected brain violate the First Amendment.
The lawsuit filed last week claims that the ads "do not describe the risks of smoking in purely factual terms".
Now I'm no expert on the First Ammendment or the accuracy of the images used in the ad but I'd have thought they were pretty representative of what can eventually happen to you if you smoke.
posted by Stan Lee at 1:04 am
7 Comments:
Maybe it the sublty of the words. The poster says "causes" i.e. will.
You last sentence uses the word "can" i.e. not a definite.
In other words, if you smoke will you defintiley get tooth decay? Or could you potentially smoke and not get tooth decay?
Agree Daniel. However they surely must have had legal approval to run the ads in the first place.
Stan,sorry to leave this in 'comments'. Is there an email I can contact you on??
Thanks,
John
If all our advertising had to rely on factual terms we'd end up with some fairly dull advertising. Wait a minute ...
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