There is an ad campaign that bothers me. Not that this ad campaign isn't for a good cause. Because it is. It's for a great cause. It's a campaign to get people to wake up to the horrible truths about smoking and tobacco. The only problem is, as I listened to the radio and television ads, I started to see a very different side of the campaign. They spouted off about "The Truth". But they were telling lies of their own!!!

Some of the ads in the "Truth" campaign were great. I mean, you know....dumping 1200 body bags outside a tobacco company business office. Piling body bags up in a vacant lot. Stuff like that. Great ads. Then I heard one on the radio. And it made me wonder how much truth there really was in the ad campaign.

This particular ad stated that the tobacco companies made those members of the general public feel like they had a choice in whether or not they smoked. And the commercial said "yeah right, like they had a choice." But the ad was WRONG. The people who smoke DO have a choice. They CAN quit...if they really want to. And they had a choice when they started smoking. The tobacco companies didn't walk into the store and hold a gun to their heads and say "You will buy these cigarettes, and you will smoke them." The people who smoke made the choice to begin smoking.

So what does that tell you?? It tells me that some people are so frantic to get the word out that you shouldn't smoke, that they don't stop to think about the consequences of their actions.

Think about it...... all those people jobless if the tobacco companies are shut down. All those farmers who have to attempt to either grow other crops, or try to get jobs that are completely different from anything they've ever known. Stop and think.... the tobacco companies have been ADMITTING for SEVERAL YEARS NOW that smoking can cause lung cancer, emphysema, and other lung diseases. So why do this NOW?? These ads indicate that the tobacco companies don't admit what their products cause. But they do and they have been. Isn't this campaign a little late?? Where was this campaign in the 80's when tobacco companies really did hide the facts from the public??

That's my view. This site will be updated when I find something else to rant about.