2007 Anti-Tobacco Contest...I need ideas!

What if you compared smoking with that of a fire situation? Similar to a 1950's educational film. Have a serious gentleman giving advice on what to do when you smell smoke. Have a lot of smoke coming from under a door. The victim is being overly dramatic, hudled in the corner. Then the serious voiceover says, "First thing to do is to calm down. [pause] Ok. Good. Now go get some wet towels and place them under the door. [she goes and does it] Good. Now quickly crawl and find the nearest exit." Then have the camera show whats on the other side of the door and its a man smoking in the bathroom. The end graphic would say, "Only you can prevent smoking." LOL Or something like that. I don't know.

Or maybe show the various products that have been removed from shelves because they caused injury, health problems, or death. (Remember lawn darts? and Alestra (or whatever it was). Then show cigarrettes sitting on the shelf, still being sold. And ask the question, "Why?"

Or maybe, since it's the new years season, you could have some people spouting out New Year's Resolutions. Have various people say things like, "I'm going to exercise more." "I'm going to quit smoking." "I'm going to study harder." Another person saying, "I'm going to quit smoking." "I'm going to travel more." And then end with "I'm going to take up smoking." And have a record scratch sound, then replay it, "I'm going to take up smoking." Then have some text that says, "Nobody ever decided smoking was a way to improve their life." and then "If you never start... [pause] you'll never have to stop."
 
Kholi said:
I thought we all decided on Mortal Kombat?
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Agreed, i think Mortal Kombat is the way!
 
Cynic821 said:
i just quit smoking :P

tough though, im still finding myself sneaking 2 or 3 a day. :(
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Sigh

Come one

I quit after 22 years

Cold Effin Turkey

Have not had a drag in 1 1/2 years

Period

be a man
 
bosindy said:
Recently Peter Jennings and Warren Zevon have died from lung cancer. You may want to do a search for as many celebs that have died from it as you can and then do a retrospective. People we idolize have been taken down by smoking and it is a powerful message.
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Zevon smoked asbestos? That's what the cancer was from...
 
I'm going to dig my old Genesis out of the basement and play some original Mortal Kombat tomorrow.
 
Cynic821 said:
i just quit smoking :P

tough though, im still finding myself sneaking 2 or 3 a day. :(
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2 or 3 a day? That's not quitting. :)

Come on, buddy. Fight it! Fight it!!! Get that monkey off your back!

And when the monkey is off your back, please give him to me. I always wanted a monkey.
 
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I hate cigarettes. I hate being around them. Nobody smokes in my car or in my house. I've never smoked, never will, and have encouraged many to quit.

But I haaaaaaaaaaaaate those "TRUTH" commercials.

(Now, if they were called "Insidious Goebbels-esue Propaganda" I'd have no problem with them.)
 
A friend of mine had to do a anti smoking campaign for school and I suggested making a video of a little kid sitting at a bus stop next to a smoker. Every day, he is sitting there and the other person is smoking. After a few days the kid asks the guy if he could not smoke around him for the all the bad things that it does(i told him to list them) and the guy said no. So a few more days go by and the kid asks again and the guy laughs at the kid and says no. The kid pulls out a gun and shoots the guy then says 'see, i told you smoking kills'

He never ended up doing it
 
Assuming you don't have a lot of time to complete this, so your production values have got to be way low you should probably keep it way simple.

Why not a quick edited montage of very close up images of the disgusting aspects of cigarettes. I'm not talking about photos. I am talking about a video montage of discussing cigarettes in action...

A close up of a persons mouth sucking on one, a close up of an ash tray or a cigarette being put on in a ash tray, accentuating the dispersing smoke consuming the tips of fingers...I'm sure you can come up with many other image ideas.

Then, as a tag line, after all that disgusting imagery, "Why does anyone start?"
 
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