First off, let me open up by saying that I never thought I’d ever be defending Big Tobacco, in fact, of everything I’ve done in this life, this could actually be the dirtiest I’ve ever felt. Hell, I don’t even smoke. Not cigarettes anyway.
But one of those “truth” ads has been slightly mislabeled, either that or truth has been redefined. When you call a public service ad campaign “Truth” people are gonna expect…I don’t know… 100% Veracity from the PSA ad.
Now, I’m not going to slander (or is that libel?) Truth or Whudafxup, and say that they took the truth & presented it with an anti-tobacco slant. Whether they did or didn’t I don’t care, I got tired of them & their whining after that theatre campaign with the big musical number right before the previews. I’m just going to attribute THIS particular inaccuracy to either sloppy research, or just them being too young & naïve.
The Ad that I’m referring to is the one where the dude dresses up like some sort of mutant puppet (Dare we say Muppet?) & walks up to some adults in what seems to be some sort of urban business center & gets treated rudely & heads over to a park where these kids start playing with him. They make a point of how tobacco execs agreed to stay away from kids movies & then one of them had their product featured in “the Muppet Movie” .
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