I know this may be old news...

[Dan011z]

I know a lot of people may already seen this ad, but just wanted to post for those who didn't see it.
Its really ridiculous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaMgWUBPeHY

 

[Jenn1181]

What the everloving...?! Hooked by "Big tobacco"? Really? Big tobacco are the ones responsible for much of the public suspicion about the safety and efficacy of e-cigs. And, yeah, the flavors are fun and sometimes you can get dangly charms and cool skins for your mod, but grown-ups like Gummy Bears and sparkly things too, ya know. It's just so foolish. The more vaping goes mainstream the greater the pushback will be.

 

[Jugband]

I saw an article about this very add. Parents were complaining that there kids weren't interested in "e cigs" until there kids saw this very add. The lollipop song caught their attention.

Seems the only people marketing to children are these people

 

[Dan011z]

"Still blowing smoke".........

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[YoursTruli]

I am sure in response to notblowingsmoke.org, rule #1 when buying a domain name... buy all other names people could use either as a grab your business as a sound alike or as a play against you like in this case ...stillblowingsmoke

 

[Super Flex]

Only thing I can say is "WOW"

 

[roxynoodle]

I'm not sure anything they showed in their ad is made by Big Tobacco, lol!

 

[CloudyWithChanceOfVape]

Lol, I know this isn't what everyone wants to read, but.....

What mod/atty is the black guy using at the end? Looks like quite a nice relaxing vape setup.

 

[glointhedark]

I've seen the ads - more than one - since I'm in Northern California, a suburb of Sacramento. They are ridiculous.

If ecigs had been available when my daughter first admitted to me that she was smoking (in Junior High School), I would certainly have looked into it, for both of us. Especially with the kind of information that is available now.

There are way too many people who will believe anything if they see it on TV.

 

[bwh79]

Seems the only people marketing to children are these people

Word.

 

[USMCotaku]

The biggest problem besides the gross miss information in that ad campaign?

The fact that they used tax payer money to create it, so they can recoup lost tobacco sales money

https://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=oxNM1pUoOn4

Sent with one hand, the other is busy vaping

 

[Karen Powell]

TOTAL BS!!!!!!!

 

[aceman3330]

The biggest problem besides the gross miss information in that ad campaign?

The fact that they used tax payer money to create it, so they can recoup lost tobacco sales money

https://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=oxNM1pUoOn4

Sent with one hand, the other is busy vaping

Totally, totally, totally agree .... oops can't see the screen through my great vape cloud, lol.


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[Jugband]

"Still blowing smoke".........

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The article I was talking about was by Not blowing smoke. An angry parent sent them an email by mistake. Complaining in error, about what she thought was there commercial. She along with other parents were angry that when there kids herd the lollipop song, and saw kids using ecigs, for the first time when the kids saw them in stores they asked for them. Not blowing smoke had to explain they had the wrong people.

 

[Hans Wermhat]

So... In an effort to keep kids from vaping, some dumb made a TV commercial showing kids vaping on flashy, bright colored rigs and set it to a catchy jingle. ... ... ...

Seems the only people marketing to children are these people

Yup. Way to go vape-nazis. You just introduced the idea that vaping is cool to millions of kids under the age of 13.

 

[skoony]

I saw an article about this very add. Parents were complaining that there kids weren't interested in "e cigs" until there kids saw this very add. The lollipop song caught their attention.

Seems the only people marketing to children are these people

I have been saying for a long time that the only ones advertising to kids were
organisations such as notblowingsmoke. Remove all the written warnings and
dialogue from from the ads they run and all that is left is good looking young
people looking cool vaping. After seeing the propaganda they spew I am positive
that this not by accident. They have to get kids interested in e-cigarettes.
their jobs depend on it.

Regards
Mike

 

[Qew]

There is a 5 page article in the Oct 2015 issue of Family Circle magazine, (titled, This Is Not A Puff Piece) warning parents that ecigs are a gentle pathway to smoking and how to guide your kids away. It states that middle school kids are the ones for parents to watch as this is the age group that is going to be sucked in by the marketing, the high school age kids are "too cool" to follow along, unless they have already started to smoke during middle school. It goes on to say that kids have had it drilled into their heads that smoking is bad, but they haven't been warned about ecigs, so parents need to get on the ball.

They may be on to something in regard to this line of reasoning. There were a group of us in a big thread recently comparing notes on when we all started smoking, many of us started at age 14. The antis are targeting parents of kids in this age group to be anti ecig, plain and simple, and lumping all ecigs into a pile with BT. The FC article is subtle, but more of the same: parents, be afraid. The illustration at the start of the article shows a teen girl using a pink ego and knocking her parents backward with exhaled vapor.

ht tp://www. familycircle . com/health/healthy-family/use-of-e-cigarettes-raises-among-teens/ (intentionally broken link)

 

[bluecat]

There is a 5 page article in the Oct 2015 issue of Family Circle magazine, (titled, This Is Not A Puff Piece) warning parents that ecigs are a gentle pathway to smoking and how to guide your kids away. It states that middle school kids are the ones for parents to watch as this is the age group that is going to be sucked in by the marketing, the high school age kids are "too cool" to follow along, unless they have already started to smoke during middle school. It goes on to say that kids have had it drilled into their heads that smoking is bad, but they haven't been warned about ecigs, so parents need to get on the ball.

They may be on to something in regard to this line of reasoning. There were a group of us in a big thread recently comparing notes on when we all started smoking, many of us started at age 14. The antis are targeting parents of kids in this age group to be anti ecig, plain and simple, and lumping all ecigs into a pile with BT. The FC article is subtle, but more of the same: parents, be afraid. The illustration at the start of the article shows a teen girl using a pink ego and knocking her parents backward with exhaled vapor.

ht tp://www. familycircle . com/health/healthy-family/use-of-e-cigarettes-raises-among-teens/ (intentionally broken link)

I am not worried about my high school or middle aged girls and vaping. I am more worried about the "kid" clubs some of these middle school kids want to be in. Basically it is a club where the girls get pregnant before high school. It wouldn't be appropriate for me to say what my reaction to this was when my 12 year old told me about it. Then I thought we purposely moved into this school district because of their high ratings. I don't think the superintendent will ever speak to me again. I guess I could have been more gentle.

If all I had to worry about was my daughters and whether they wanted to vape or not... I would be a very happy father.

Your right.. at the high school level.. vaping isn't cool.

 

[Alien Traveler]

There is a 5 page article in the Oct 2015 issue of Family Circle magazine, (titled, This Is Not A Puff Piece) warning parents that ecigs are a gentle pathway to smoking and how to guide your kids away. It states that middle school kids are the ones for parents to watch as this is the age group that is going to be sucked in by the marketing, the high school age kids are "too cool" to follow along, unless they have already started to smoke during middle school. It goes on to say that kids have had it drilled into their heads that smoking is bad, but they haven't been warned about ecigs, so parents need to get on the ball.

They may be on to something in regard to this line of reasoning. There were a group of us in a big thread recently comparing notes on when we all started smoking, many of us started at age 14. The antis are targeting parents of kids in this age group to be anti ecig, plain and simple, and lumping all ecigs into a pile with BT. The FC article is subtle, but more of the same: parents, be afraid. The illustration at the start of the article shows a teen girl using a pink ego and knocking her parents backward with exhaled vapor.

ht tp://www. familycircle . com/health/healthy-family/use-of-e-cigarettes-raises-among-teens/ (intentionally broken link)

Exceptionally good paper. I do not understand why you have broken a link. People should read it.

 

[Qew]

Exceptionally good paper. I do not understand why you have broken a link. People should read it.

I didn't look up the people quoted in the article, so I didn't want to link it. But, I put the broken link in for those that did want to go read the article, it is easy enough to find that way.