i always think about the anti-drug campaign in my sixth grade science class. they told us to not huff paints, markers, etc. we all looked at each other like "you can do that ???"

@caseyw.6550

9 ай бұрын

Lol

@ttthecat

9 ай бұрын

Yup! Exactly!😅

@supotter377

9 ай бұрын

Yeah they always showed the most niche ways to get high to like 11-12 year olds lmfao

@sketchystrawberry302

9 ай бұрын

LOLLL same thing happened to me

@oliverfalbo5555

9 ай бұрын

​@@caseyw.6550p WV

The only “anti-vaping” ad I’ve seen that’s stuck with me was the skit where 2 girls vape in a bathroom and one girl drops hers in the toilet. She’s so addicted she grabs it out of the toilet and reluctantly hits it. I don’t know why I think that’s the only anti-vaping ad I found myself paying attention to, and I don’t even vape

@itznia_ok8069

8 ай бұрын

I saw that one too

@emilyphillips1025

8 ай бұрын

The other “how far would you go for a hit?” ones are all pretty good too. I agree tho the toilet one was the most hard hitting

@johnindigo5477

8 ай бұрын

And the one where the girl misses her bus cause she can't go a few hours without her juul.

@Purplest_

8 ай бұрын

The worst thing about that exact ad, for me personally, I've had friends talk about doing this exact thing before.

@Cmrnnn

8 ай бұрын

@@johnindigo5477i used to purposefully miss my bus if I didn’t have earphones 🤷‍♂️

yeh the old ones with actual smokers talking to the camera scared the shit out of me, they should've continued doing that, it seemed waaaayyy more effective

@Tieigo0

4 ай бұрын

Timestamp?

@yoda5436

4 ай бұрын

@@Tieigo0 10:52

@ExtraThiccc

4 ай бұрын

I guess there's no people who have lost their lungs from vaping

@yoda5436

4 ай бұрын

@@ExtraThiccc well duh, shit hasn't been around long enough for masses of people to get sick yet, but it will happen lmao

@uskeeze2131

2 ай бұрын

@@ExtraThiccceven they know the visual after effects from cancer from smoking tobacco doesn’t really correlate with vaping. I’m surprised they haven’t just went ahead and lied though like the rest of the anti vaping commercials.

The “that’s metal…in ya lungs” guy actually ate that commercial up and I need him to be in more things.

@lazyliongames6660

Ай бұрын

He has the same energy as will smith

@f4rgetf4l36

Ай бұрын

right, i quote that so often

@isqqcc

24 күн бұрын

@@lazyliongames6660 OMFG THATS SO TRUE

@Dragonmongamer

20 күн бұрын

Also the “Metal Monster” they made in another version of that ad is sick af

@NotNochos

11 күн бұрын

@@DragonmongamerFr i only ever saw the full 30sec one like twice though

The anti-drug campaign I always think about was those pencils that said "DON'T DO DRUGS" down the side but if you sharpened your pencil enough it said "DO DRUGS" lol

@crawlspacedweller

5 ай бұрын

And if u sharpen it more it just says "DRUGS"

@veniankween130

4 ай бұрын

Could have been fixed by writing them the other way around too. Then it would say “DONT DO”.

@Oldass_Deadass_dumbass_channel

4 ай бұрын

@@veniankween130 that would require good foresight and planning, both of which are things anti drug campaigns are notoriously terrible with.

@Stickat2

4 ай бұрын

And if you sharpened it more, it would say "RUGS"!

@vexayen1675

4 ай бұрын

That sounds hilarious I'd love one of those

I say this all the time!! I’ve quit vaping and that “Breath of stress air” commercial was the number one thing that made it harder. The sound of the inhale and exhale?? Its like they’re just dangling a carrot in front of your face. They definitely know what they’re doing.

@G4rfield

9 ай бұрын

I hate that ad so much. The breathing part makes me wanna go back to it when I haven't even touched one in MONTHSS

@CeciliaBlossom150

9 ай бұрын

Literally the day I quit I started getting floooooooded with that ad. I can’t believe it’s a coincidence. It was the hardest part of quitting, every time I got the ad, BAM, huge craving. Congrats for quitting!

@mjluv.

9 ай бұрын

i get that ad all the time and it’s literally so annoying omfg

@beingmegucaissuffering.5326

9 ай бұрын

That ad sets off my misophonia so bad I hate it so much

@twotruckslyrics

9 ай бұрын

@@beingmegucaissuffering.5326Thank youuu yesssss omg. i have misophonia to the point where i had to go online for school and like around that time when i finalllly had peace i was flooded with this awful ad

The only lasting impact of the DARE campaign is the large amounts of furry art depicting the DARE lion smoking weed

@cartermarrero9431

Ай бұрын

What? I imagine only degenerate furries will understand what you’re saying.

@gaborcseh3716

Ай бұрын

lmao. a true internet moment.

@tripolarmdisorder7696

Ай бұрын

I didn't know dare had a lion...

@lehahiah81

Ай бұрын

Saw a guy at twin peaks actually wearing one of the DARE shirts the other day.

@jack-videogame9533

Ай бұрын

He obviously smokes Seaweed.

I quit vaping, and it was tough, but I did it. But now I get ads saying “vape cravings can take you out of the moment” which ironically makes me think about vaping and gives me cravings

@_PlaceHolderForNow_

2 ай бұрын

I’d put ads on mute or maybe get Adblock I’m so sorry

@littlegaybee.

Ай бұрын

ublock origin. its free, and it completely blocks ads

@quinintheclouds

Ай бұрын

that's so awful, congrats for being able to quit, that must have been so hard. Like the above reply said, adblock is a great option (I know the Chrome version doesn't work anymore, but that's bc Chrome is owned by Google, which profits off youtube ads. Get Firefox instead -- it won't sell your data and its adblock actually works!)

@isqqcc

24 күн бұрын

its like, if you're trying to make someone quit porn, and show them porn while saying "don't watch this!" it's very fucking obviously not going to work.

@NotNochos

11 күн бұрын

Congrats on quitting, btw!

In my DARE program, they would let us submit anonymous questions and every week a cop would read out “Would SpongeBob smoke weed?” and get mad.

@paein9642

9 ай бұрын

no patrick, weed is not an instrument.

@xRaiofSunshine

9 ай бұрын

@@paein9642Horseradish isn’t one either 😒

@cheeseofglass

9 ай бұрын

SpongeBob is too diligent and, well, a square. He wouldn't want to displease Mr. Krabs, who knows that SpongeBob would become a less effective employee if he became a stoner. SpongeBob wouldn't seek out weed and would be hesitant to try it under normal circumstances. However, he is known to be vulnerable to peer pressure. Patrick, a known slacker, would probably convince him to try it. This is basically already the episode titled "Hooky." Except Hooky ends poorly for SpongeBob and Patrick. If they got hooked on weed instead of hooks, SpongeBob probably would have just chilled and watched some dancing sea anemones on TV.

@base4yrface

9 ай бұрын

@@cheeseofglass I would rip a fat blunt with squidward

@rattmcpossum

9 ай бұрын

Thats beautiful right there, got a genuine laugh from me

The most effective anti drugs thing I ever sat through was when my highschool invited in a former addict to talk about it. This man, he never said that we shouldn't do drugs. He told us about the rush, the fun, the excitement, the happiness, the pain relief, the escape. He told us why people take drugs, he managed to cover so many perspectives ranging from peer pressure to a desire to forget it all for a short time. He just told us so many things about what he wished he knew when he started. About contamination. About mixing drugs and drink. About doing it alone. About reusing other people's needles. About the monetary cost. About the side effects. He painted a horrible picture, people dying left and right. But he never once told us not to use drugs. He never one told us off for using them (I had classmates at the time who I knew used them). Heck, he even gave advise for safer consumption and which drugs were less likely to do harm. But I think that might have been part of why it was so effective. Idk how to say it, but yeah. It was effective.

@LMYS5697

9 ай бұрын

Watched my friend die of heroin addiction. At the end, he wasn't even using to feel good, just to feel good enough to get through the day, to keep the withdrawal at bay. I've tried it twice with him, I'll never use it again. I understand why he did, I also understand why he wished he could stop. DARE was a joke. FTP and fuck the DARE program.

@texanarchy666

9 ай бұрын

Kids will always end up trying drugs. Harm reduction is the only way to help them

@thecomentingcat6280

9 ай бұрын

While agree harm reduction is very important, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. @@texanarchy666

@gliiitched

9 ай бұрын

True, though, some drugs, like alcohol, coke, heroin, and meth are produced and sold to satisfy and conquer markets. Yeah, kids will naturally stray towards drugs, but that means we need to abolish the market system that even makes destructive substances available. We need to make sure that in the future, kids don't choose heroin by stopping the production and trade of heroin outright by abolishing the worldwide drug market outright, and an overhaul of the culture that prioritizes research before drug use. It will take time, and a massive coordinated effort by all the progressive forces of the world, but a future where anyone and everyone has the ability to effectively research whatever medicine intrigues them and translating that into profound, serene, and otherwise life changing experiences on anything from weed, to mushrooms, acid, and even maybe salvia, is possible, and inevitable, so long as we don't go extinct.

@loglorn

9 ай бұрын

Its almost like, much like sex ed, the most information the better.

In highschool, in Australia, we had an entire class once a week dedicated to watching anti-drug propaganda. One 'documentary' we watched was about how some guy's life supposedly fell apart after smoking weed. The iconic part I'll never forget was when he was sitting in a dark corner in an abandoned house, rocking back and forth, repeating the word 'bong' in a high pitched voice. Anyone reading this knows what happened next - for the next year, every party, every get together, whenever a bong was present, at least someone would start repeating in an annoying high pitched voice "bong! bong!"

@cat1554

Ай бұрын

I want to see that

@psychosomaticstatic

Ай бұрын

omg that sounds hilarious Tbh one of the biggest problems about the fear mongering around weed is that when kids try weed and realize it isn't bad, they ask themselves "what else were the anti-drug PSAs wrong about?". Like. We need to be real about the relative danger of each psychoactive substance.

@Notaripoffbruh

Ай бұрын

Any more details?

@quinintheclouds

Ай бұрын

@@psychosomaticstatic exactly. By categorizing weed alongside ACTUALLY harmful and dangerous substances, we're really making the hardcore stuff seem less scary. Fearmongering over marijuana was based on racism, and that's not a conspiracy -- it's been admitted on record that it was just a way to arrest more Hispanic and Black people while also increasing fear of them as "dangerous drug users." No one has ever directly died from marijuana use. Now look at the deaths from alcohol use. Ever wonder why that's the legal one? Now ya know.

@Chekmate-em3mc

Ай бұрын

Bong

"just say no" has the same sort of vibe to "just dont be depressed"

@emilyyyyyyyyyyyyys

Ай бұрын

depressed? Just be happy 😍

@alexdeville1110

9 күн бұрын

“Don’t be depressed” Yeah no shingles dude, that’s mah fudgin problem(not talking to you)

@susu_mwah

6 күн бұрын

literally 😭

@viscountrainbows2857

17 сағат бұрын

"Are you homeless? Just buy a house, smh skill issue"

i've never smoked or vaped and likely never will, however i remember once when i was 15 or 16 i was complaining to a friend about the sheer amount of very annoying and ultimately ineffective anti-vaping ads i saw all the time, and both of us reached the same conclusion of "it's tempting to start vaping out of spite" so make of that what you will

@xyrissavage4983

5 ай бұрын

i've had an almost identical conversation. there a posters outside my university bathrooms with vaping information. Who's stopping to read this? it feels almost attacking. like you're trying to parent me. we're not high schoolers. how do you think you can tell me what to do? i should vape to get back at you- ah shit

@dNorsh

5 ай бұрын

@@xyrissavage4983nah we had fetynal awareness pass posters in our school and it was saying spot the difference in the laced and not laced and I fr thought they were telling me the difference 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

@Liusila

3 ай бұрын

Where do you see them though? Do kids watch cable?

@cherryjasper1728

2 ай бұрын

@@Liusila I dunno about other music apps, but SoundCloud and Pandora would have them in very aggressive waves. Like, back to back, sometimes the same ad 2 times in a row aggressive. They were VERY annoying.

@GoVocaloider

2 ай бұрын

I've always thought this about irony when I see people say they're "doing something ironically", and that is how doing something intentionally ironically (which I'm not even sure is an accurate use of irony), doesn't change the fact that you are participating in/contributing to/proving the effectiveness of the thing that you are making fun of - which is the truer irony.

It's been so terrifying seeing young people around me get addicted to nicotine when it JUST seemed like the cycle was being broken. These companies are so insidious.

@Jogjosmowwdkfs

9 ай бұрын

My sister is 21 and she's been vaping since junior year of hs. Terrifying to me, especially since she's doing it with the tone of "this will kill me haha oh well."

@DownTrodded

9 ай бұрын

@@JogjosmowwdkfsSounds like my weed and alcohol addicted cousin river. I didn’t see her in months possible a year I go there to get my cousin my other cousin her older brother sage to see if he wants to do some work it was a job for his moms new boyfriend helping fix up some house his house the house he was and had been working on for 20 years for a couple of dollars. I don’t think iv been paid yet might go back to do some more work with sage anyways. I go into the house there she is sitting with her new girlfriend strung out on what I only hope is weed in the kitchen at the kitchen table unable to look me in the eyes just looking at me for a few seconds before looking around and at the ground. Her expression clearly shame and embarrassment she opens her mouth as if shes going to talk introduce me to her girlfriend who is also an addict. But she doesn’t I make eye contact with her and I know for a fact I give her a look of “no don’t I’m done with you I didn’t say anything because I don’t have anything to say you know how I feel about what your doing if you want to still be family to going back to begin family you have to stop at least to the point where your not strung out when talking to me.” So she shut her mouth then I looked at her girlfriend in the eyes and she was in the same state as river embarrassed felling bad and unable to look me in the eyes because even to her it was clear the kind of individual I was what my stance was why I haven’t said anything and only been looking around judging. Skipping ahead a bit I walked one of their dogs came back to put them away and check on sage to see if he was ready he decided to go. River and her girlfriend are in her room best guess is because they didn’t want to see anymore of me judging them. Me and sage head out to the car the boyfriends car as I’m sitting in the car ready to go they come out to say goodbye as they leave one last look in the eye and her girlfriend starts to tear up river puts her arm around her and gives me a look of anger I roll my eyes while chuckling a little. Then we headed off. My cousin isn’t even a teenager yet or barely is I can’t remember which nor do I care to remember I couldn’t care if I wanted to because in a part of my mind she’s already dead.

@texanarchy666

9 ай бұрын

​@@Jogjosmowwdkfsthats how i felt when i started smoking cigarettes. Now i hate it. I still smoke em and vape but i feel years slipping away every time. Drug laws made me a cigarette addict. I was doing just fine smoking weed and vaping but then i got on probation and had to quit the weed but still needed something to smoke so i started smoking cigarettes again.

@N8Dulcimer

9 ай бұрын

100% the parents fault. Half of them didnt even know what vapes were until their middle schoolers had already been smoking them for years.

@_kaleido

9 ай бұрын

it sucks, Gen Z was the first generation to kinda come close to being nicotine-free, but then companies came out with bright-colored pens that look trendy and high-tech and have fun flavors.

I grew up very goody-two-shoes, and whenever we'd have a drugs PSA or the DARE program visited, I remember thinking, "Why do we need this? Everyone knows drugs are bad!" And those heartwrenching PSAs told by real-life addicts had me TERRIFIED to so much as touch a cigarette. THOSE things worked. DARE, on the other hand? All they kept talking about was how fun and addictive these drugs are, how far addicts would go to get just _one more hit_ because it makes them feel THAT good, how heroin made all the pain and sadness go away, how crack made you feel intense happiness and invincible like you can do anything, etc., etc.... and then told us "Don't ever do any of these, because if you do, _you'll never want to stop."_ It didn't make ME want to do any of these, but I remember thinking, "Oh. So that's why people do it -- to them, it's worth it." The rest of the day was always full of students gossiping about how they want to try [x], just once, because obviously they were just trying to scare us with the whole "only once is enough to get addicted," and if it really feels THAT good, everyone should probably try it once before they die, right? Before DARE, none of us knew how to get or access drugs. After DARE, kids were huffing glue and sniffing markers, because those were readily available and felt cool and grown-up. Depressed kids would say they "can't wait to go on heroin" because nothing could be worse than how they feel, and they'd give anything to stop being sad even for a moment. Kids would say "Adults are hypocrites -- they tell us not to do alcohol but they drink ALL THE TIME. They probably do these drugs, too." It was such a failure all-around. What all drug PSAs SHOULD teach, imo, is how the War on Drugs was fueled by racism, and we should be critical of what info we hear, and learn the dangers from real-life addicts rather than corporations with suspect motives. But here we are.

@quinintheclouds

Ай бұрын

oh yeah, and I do weed now 💀 (though tbf weed is the most baselessly-fearmongered and least dangerous of drugs, including alcohol. Read about the Reagan and Nixon administration and how they've admitted it was racially-based)

@quinintheclouds

Ай бұрын

CLARIFICATION: Smoking of any sort is still bad for your lungs and vocal fold/larynx/trachea/overall respiratory system! I personally only take edibles bc I have asthma and a mom who smokes cigarettes, so I avoid that shit. Be safe, y'all!

as someone who used to vape, those ads were my worst enemy when I was trying to quit, and even now the addicted animal part of my brain is clawing at the walls seeing those campaigns

@Morrislover.they.xem.

2 ай бұрын

Cg on quitting!!

@henryjost3807

Ай бұрын

How did you quit?

hi im a teenager who’s surrounded by ppl who vape in high school! i couldn’t agree more about the strength in story telling part. seeing tiktoks of young adults and teenagers talking about their negative experiences with vaping has been the most effective way of messaging. a lot of initiatives for anti vaping targeted towards teenagers always feel like they have some weird condescending nature and it just makes you wanna vape more lol

@Xtroid

9 ай бұрын

Fr, it seems like a challenge

@kenz2237

9 ай бұрын

totally agree with the campaigns sounding condescending, it’s like they want you to feel bad for vaping but it has the opposite effect. seeing them makes me want to hit the vape out of spite lol

@erwidobi7812

9 ай бұрын

i shoulda fuckin rolled hu tao

@nateleichner2569

9 ай бұрын

​@@kenz2237literally this, every time I got those ads it reminded me to hit mine, it was like a ritual

@laurene8533

9 ай бұрын

I just saw a tik tok of a young girl in the hospital saying that her lungs are worse than an 85-year-old's because of vaping. That video was more effective than any anti-vaping psa I've seen.

I'd wear a shirt that says " if you like anxiety you'll love depression "

@denverrandy7143

9 ай бұрын

I'm gonna hafta pick that one up

@Jayeon139

Ай бұрын

One of my best friends thought that like was so hilarious she had a shirt made that says that and she wears it to school all the time

The only anti-vaping ad that worked for me was the one where the kid is vaping in the school bathroom and drops her vape in the toilet, then very reluctantly takes it out, dries it off, then hits it again, and then it just ends. Great anti-vaping ad.

@loganmedia1142

Ай бұрын

Sounds unrealistic. The sort of advert we'd have laughed at.

@shaeby8123

Ай бұрын

@@loganmedia1142 I don't know, I've seen people go damn near insane for a hit

@thatcursedsibling29

Ай бұрын

@@loganmedia1142no people def do that and have dropped their vapes in worse places just to hit again

@ninamykh

Ай бұрын

@@loganmedia1142 as a recent high school grad i've known people who admitted to doing this

@lyricscroll7680

27 күн бұрын

@@loganmedia1142unfortunately i have done this T_T

In 5th grade a police officer came to our school and part of the presentation was a film illustrating how psychedelics change your perceptions. I thought that was the coolest thing ever.

@MadChild628

Ай бұрын

In our dare program the officer brought in drunk goggles so we could see how weird it would look when drunk

@wall-e5869

Ай бұрын

​@@MadChild628 i think it will make drunkness look attractive for kids😬

@wall-e5869

Ай бұрын

​@@MadChild628bringing in homeless drunk would be more effective

@loganmedia1142

Ай бұрын

@@wall-e5869 But effective at what? My grandfather was an alcohol addict and spent every cent on drinking. But he's not typical. There'd be no point parading someone like him around as an example. It's really the same with almost every other recreational drug.

@sasha-is-eepy

Ай бұрын

who tf is telling fifth graders about psychedelics???

as a teen that is against vaping/wouldn’t ever vape, the depression stick/breath of stress air genuinely made me want to vape. the ads have fun colors, flashy details, a cool voice/graphics. that’s how you market a product, not deter people from it

@GamerBoy-fe4fp

9 ай бұрын

Also a Teen, I swear I remember this man when I was watching NBC News with my dad. I don't know where that ad went but I still watch NBC news and don't vape so it worked?

@boredyoutubeuser

9 ай бұрын

Yeah! That is basically passive promotion of the product, not a PSA against it! I feel bad for every kid and grownup with these addictions, if it's tempting when you don't even smoke, imagine how hard it is for them...

@kennydoggins1712

9 ай бұрын

Everytime I hit a weed vape I laugh to myself about "breathe of stress air" i understand that the weed vapes use the same coils and hardware so it's not entirely better than nic vapes but still gotta chuckle

@hannahbroom2664

9 ай бұрын

Same! Makes it look enticing. I don't want to vape, but it's so colorful and doesn't actually get the message across

@GamerBoy-fe4fp

9 ай бұрын

I remember though one anti smoking ad that scares me to death every time i think about it was that Terrie H. ad, if you know what i mean.

"everyone gets one conspiracy theory" *outlines something very well backed up by data from several sources*

@dr.blockcraft6633

9 ай бұрын

This is, By definition, A conspiracy Theory. They are Theorizing about The existance Of a Conspiracy.

@GlitchedEspeon

9 ай бұрын

quite a few 'conspiracy theories' have had evidence to back them up, and have turned out to be true. the watergate scandal is a good example

@xald1234114

9 ай бұрын

@@GlitchedEspeon conspiracy theory is used and thrown around to purposely conjure an image of immediate dismissal as soon as you hear something called a conspiracy theory. it's like calling someone a nazi immediately makes you perceive their actions as more dictatorial than they are, like calling someone a feminazi is meant to make it seem like feminists are evil for wanting special treatment for women and trans women

@woodfur00

9 ай бұрын

And the ones that are bullshit can still present convincing cases if you listen to them long enough

@xavisonline

9 ай бұрын

Pretty sure the term serves more as a pejorative than a strict evidentiary threshold. Social taboos informed by popular narrative. Though in the technical sense it also is a theory about conspiracy regardless lol

I remember getting lectured by a cop about saying no to drugs. He had like a box of samples of drugs I hadn't even heard of. Spent most of that 4th grade class wondering how the school allowed him to get that box in and why he was allowed to have samples to bring around

@rawrrrer

Ай бұрын

Those are probably just replicas, styrofoam, or salt.

@hamburger7243

Ай бұрын

Did he actually give them out or were they just there?

I think one of my favorite instances was back when tiktok was showing them like crazy. They left the comments on and everyone was like "thanks I just took a hit while watching this"

@f4rgetf4l36

Ай бұрын

it was such a feeling of unity against them, lol. like the PETA of vaping

@HungerGamesFan88

27 күн бұрын

leaving em on is either a bold move or a big flub by intern jimothy

@byulharangforlife

16 күн бұрын

@@f4rgetf4l36 if u watch this video, you will know that it wasn't against them..THIS is what they want

@Shtickyaight

9 күн бұрын

Frr

@Kloiyd

8 күн бұрын

I have a feeling they left the comments on in purpose to encourage people to vape in a indirect way.

My daughter has the stuffed animal (DARE lion) that she won for an essay she wrote in grade school. It's right next to her bong. GREAT WORK, MAGGIE.

@naftalibendavid

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for all the ups. I took a hilarious photo but can’t upload here. MAGGIE RULES! Save Martha!

@Viteaification

9 ай бұрын

nice

@FakeSchrodingersCat

9 ай бұрын

I remember coming out of a mandatory DARE assembly in high school suddenly wanting to smoke pot. They were so blatantly lying, I mean if everyone ODed the second they even looked at drugs why was there even such a thing as drug addicts. And the PSAs with all these attractive, successful people with drug problems. Combined with a teenagers ingrained anti authority mindset is it any wonder the program didn't work.

@RobertHollander

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for the best laugh of the month (and possibly the year) so far.

@downwordspiralofpiss

9 ай бұрын

Dude at this point, DARE is a part of stoner culture. If you ever see someone wearing a DARE shirt, they 100% smoke

Fun fact these anti vaping actually caused me to relapse while I was trying to quit vaping by constantly bombarding me on every platform imaginable while I was doing everything I could to not think about nicotine. So great job truth, you did the exact opposite of what you claim to wanna do

@jaydetbh

9 ай бұрын

exactly!!!!!! the complete opposite of what their “intentions” are. i started smoking way more when i saw those ads

@Benry1

9 ай бұрын

Same they made me think about vaping ALL the TIME while I was trying so hard to stop. I didn’t end up stopping till those ads slowed down

@claudias.7762

9 ай бұрын

so true. they were a constant reminder when i quit for the first time

@UsefullPig

9 ай бұрын

Yeah man, as of recent with these new turquoise warnings, now every time I walk into a gas station they have a bunch of signs posted reminding me that I want to smoke

@gaz6341

9 ай бұрын

this happened to me as well 😭

Just say no and DARE reminds me of the anti gambling “when the fun stops, stop” which have fundamental misunderstandings of addiction

@your_average_nerd6861

Ай бұрын

That's a great mention! I always thought the "When the fun stops, stop" didn't really fit.

@fbidumbbee

19 сағат бұрын

"if you're homeless, just buy a house! duh!"

the most effective anti-vaping ad i've ever seen was a tiktok about "your friend who vapes" and it was just a guy who was killing the vibe with his "not an addiction"

I had to make an anti-vape ad for a school presentation in health class I didn’t focus on what’s in the vape I didn’t focus on the cancer it could cause. I just set up a slide show showing vapes that blew up in people’s faces causing them to be permanently disfigured. I showed them that lung cancer isn’t the only way vapes can kill. Told them a story I saw on the news of a vape blowing up and killing a father. I’m not sure it worked but I’ll never forget how scared the kids in the back of the class looked

@Misa-Aname

9 ай бұрын

I originally tried to use the “are you really gonna let them take your money” but my teacher said I was being “shallow” and “superficial” so I went the gore route

@EmiCubez

9 ай бұрын

One of my friends vapes blew up in Atlanta due to heat. Right after hit it and set it on the floor boards, it exploded and the whole passenger side of the car has caught fire. It was a blessing that they got out with minimal damage to them

@Misa-Aname

9 ай бұрын

@@EmiCubez oh wow that’s terrible I’m really glad everyone was okay

@haleyw5677

9 ай бұрын

@@Misa-Anamethe cost is a big reason why I have always avoided nicotine. I tried snus in Sweden out of curiosity, but i was never gonna risk getting addicted because I was not gonna spend that kind of money

@Misa-Aname

9 ай бұрын

@@haleyw5677 I honestly understand I was thinking about trying out vaping till I saw how much vape juice was. I’m honestly grateful for it

whats really freaky is that I'm 26 and NEVER have seen the "that's metal" ad even though I vape and smoke cigarettes. That leads me to believe that the ad is being targeted at younger demographics. No 16 year old is gonna not vape because an ad showed them a big cool looking animated monster that transforms into a vape. When I was a teenager the "stoner sloth" was going viral and it became a mascot instead of a deterrent.

@Tritailed-Shenanigans

9 ай бұрын

It is targeted towards kids! Almost all of the anti smoking ads are directed at preteens-teenagers. As most people start smoking in their teens.

@miraenofficial

9 ай бұрын

I’m 23 and I get the THATS METAL ad constantly

@mareteria

9 ай бұрын

Stop doing that

@hannahluden2245

9 ай бұрын

My partner is a stoner, and he has told me the stoner sloth and the one with the deflated girl on the couch were just super funny to him.

@kittymmeow

9 ай бұрын

I'm 27 and I would get the "that's metal" ad all the time while watching gaming streams on Twitch. I don't know whether I was getting it from being demographically targeted but the fact that it's being shown to all the gamers on Twitch makes me feel like it's targeted to the kind of people who would find that kind of visual cool, which is hilariously ironic.

the ad that stuck with me the most from my childhood was that antismoking ad where the person has to peel off their skin and pull out their teeth to pay for cigarettes at a corner store . it was so grotesque that even being fully surrounded by vaping friends i havent smoked cigarettes or vaped to this day other than to quickly taste a friend's new flavor .

@kirapipikirapika

Ай бұрын

those ones always freaked me the hell out, so much so that i needed to look away. definitely effective

I remember seeing an anti-smoking ad aimed at teens in a comic book back in the early 2000s "TOBACCO IS WACKO ... if you're a teen" said the headline It was a highly stylised psychedelic illustration of a guy smoking and coughing but because it was so stylised, he kinda looked like he was dancing and having a good time Across this illustration at the top of the page you read TOBACCO IS WACKO Yea, these guys are masters at manipulative messaging You can't expect the foxes to guard the chicken coop 😂

@teehee4096

Ай бұрын

"if you're a teen" 😂... as if tobacco is healthy for adults!

@your_average_nerd6861

Ай бұрын

I thought the phrase "Tobacco is Wacko" was only used in JackPop's video "The Bully Busters 2" which was a joke ad about smoking. It's all come full circle.

@-alovelygaycat-

Ай бұрын

There’s so many of them I can’t tell which one you’re talking about. The one that looks most like a guy dancing is from 2001 but it looks more like a mosaic than anything and the “Tobacco is Wacko” is spread out across it.

They told us in health class that it causes weight loss, and postpones hunger and I heard other ppl around me talk about that when vaping. So they made it sound like a good thing instead of a bad thing

@benpowell5348

9 ай бұрын

i love how perfectly that illustrates the external issues that drive drug and vape and smoke use etc. If people are constantly seeing a body image that doesn't match theirs and feel inferior or embarrassed, of course they're gonna think it's a good thing to lose weight and postpone hunger. If somebody is suffering from a ton of anxiety in their environment, they might even 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 to trade that for a softer cookies and cream flavored depression because it's cheaper than therapy in our for-profit medical system and they're forced to continue working their butts off to survive cause wages have been stagnant for so long

@JackOLanternBob

9 ай бұрын

Yes it can decrease hunger, possibly resulting in weight loss. It made me usually not feel hunger until the evenings, and it also made me more lazy, and many days I would be too lazy to put in the effort to eat, I'd just vape instead because it was easier than eating. I started trying really hard to gain weight, but it felt impossible, and I kept losing more and more weight. Once I stopped vaping I was surprised how I started feeling hungry again and was able to eat a lot more

@sallynx51

9 ай бұрын

That's a good recipe for an eating disorder

@dipperdandy

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, I briefly dated a girl who basically just lived off of cigarettes (this was like, ten years before vapes became a thing) and diet coke. "To keep thin". I don't understand how she could survive like that.

@ZebraLuv

9 ай бұрын

You know what else makes hunger go away for the same amount of time at almost no cost? Drinking a glass of water.

Whenever anyone says "That's METAL!" my brain always says "IN YOUR LUNGS!"

@CorrectFossa

9 ай бұрын

I’m convinced that ad was sponsored by KZread to get everyone to subscribe to KZread premium and never see it again

@gj5748

9 ай бұрын

SAME

@SamChaneyProductions

9 ай бұрын

@@CorrectFossa It convinced me to install adblock for KZread

@milenacosta8299

9 ай бұрын

AHSGSGSHB same

@jeffbrownstain

9 ай бұрын

Punk rock tried. New wave tried. Grunge tried. Hahaha. They failed, as they were stricken to the ground.

The first couple times I saw the "depression stick" ads, I legitimately thought it was an ad FOR vaping. The ads themselves are contradictory and confusing, and the music, and imagery in those ads were chosen to be soothing and fun. They absolutely know what they're doing.

Those breath of stress air ads ran on tiktok for MONTHS and every time I looked at the comments it was just confused people wondering why tiktok would let them advertise a vape lol.

"YoU wOuDn'T dOwNlOaD a CaR!" I absolutely f-ing would download a car. Got anything other cool stuff on there?

@adhamwashere5320

4 ай бұрын

What if I downloaded it legally?

@Lyncin

4 ай бұрын

@@adhamwashere5320 whom cares!! i downloaded the latest honda civic on fitgirl repacks, shit was FIRE

@Jcktmn

4 ай бұрын

Game Mods

@Tieigo0

4 ай бұрын

@someordinarygamers would download, so do I.

@djmips

4 ай бұрын

We all would

Here's a good rule of thumb for whether an anti-vaping or anti-drug ad is effective: If the ad was in a language you couldn't understand, would you still understand the message?

@rosalindcormier4384

5 ай бұрын

That’s actually a really good point. Visual language is everything.

@KatNips

4 ай бұрын

The depression stick psa in a language I don't understand sounds like the ultimate shitpost I would share mindlessly.

@wanderfilho5443

4 ай бұрын

@@KatNipsMmmmmm Palito del depresión

@ThugOG30VIPs3rd-T

3 ай бұрын

Hmmm. Actually a good question to determine such effectiveness 👌

@SuperFlamethrower

2 ай бұрын

Maybe there will be an AI tool that can do this (analyze the audio track and scramble the speech into nonsense). They use lorem ipsum in the publishing industry.

this video actually inspired me to try to quit vaping, five months later and i'm completely clean :DD

@Sentient-potato

4 ай бұрын

great

@batlover2003

3 ай бұрын

I’m happy for you, my brother had gotten sent to the hospital multiple times from habitual smoking complications… even if you don’t have a perfect “clean streak”, every time you choose not to vape is a victory please keep going ..

@grunchchristmas

Ай бұрын

awesome dude!

@danny8284

Ай бұрын

hell yeah, amazing job! congrats :D

@emilyyyyyyyyyyyyys

Ай бұрын

this is so awesome you got this :)

can we just talk about the fact that the BreathOfStressAir ad's slogan is "See For Yourself"

@FectoForgoGaming

12 күн бұрын

That's what will actually cause addictions. The start of a lethal addiction is the testing phase...

The most effective anti-tobacco ads for me were the ones with real people telling their stories, and then the text at the end said these people died soon after filming the ad. The ad was one of the last things they did in the world, and it was them telling the world their regrets. Edit:Fixing my horrible spelling. Why you no work spell check. I rely on you.

@sea5078

8 ай бұрын

I remember a documentary we had to watch in high school about this guy trying to recover from a crippling alcohol addiction. Towards the end, it started to tell the story in a way where it seemed like there was a light at the end of the tunnel and he would survive because he finally wanted and started to chance. Then the movie ended, stating that he died some month(s) after. That movie really struck me, because I think I was so used to movies always having some resolution where things (maybe not all but most) work out fine. But this wasn’t just a movie, this was a real person who lived, who shared what left he could tell before succumbing to his addiction.

@SeekerGoldstone

8 ай бұрын

Did you know that those people are actors? There was never a woman named Barbara Tarbox and the woman who played her never smoked. The "smoker's lungs" are staged from offal of various animals the same way that fast food places stage plastic to look like delicious burgers. Anti-smoking ads are also an industry.

@sheevinopalpatino4782

8 ай бұрын

I enjoy my cancer. Leave me be.

@banjofangirl3458

7 ай бұрын

​@@sheevinopalpatino4782naw

@RockandrollNegro

6 ай бұрын

If you're going to shorten the word "advertisement," then don't add an extra 'd'. It's just 'ad', not 'add'.

These ads say fewer bad things about vaping than pharmaceutical ads which are required to list their side effects

@lays5277

Ай бұрын

It's almost like fearmongering will never be as effective or efficient as the truth

@quinintheclouds

Ай бұрын

oh god you're right

the thing that scared me out of ever smoking or vaping or doing drugs wasn’t even an anti-drug campaign. it was a man, who came into my grade three class and talked to us about fire safety. the man had gone to a cabin with his friends and left a candle on, and the cabin burned down. this man was telling us about the paths that everyone went down after the incident, and what stayed with me the most was him telling us about how his friend had gotten into huffing gasoline and ruined his life. this stayed with me so much that i’ve never touched a substance in my life.

Mine is actually a “The real cost” add. I was young and surfing the internet when a pop add appeared of hands holding a red velvet box. The box opened and inside was a very convincing set of rotting human teeth… I will never forget it

@sasha-is-eepy

Ай бұрын

yeah, ive seen that one. it terrified me as a kid

@FectoForgoGaming

12 күн бұрын

I mean, that ad at least was effective in deterring me. The metal monster, meanwhile, is not particularly scary, it just looks like a cool video game boss. Maybe some rejected concept for a Monster Hunter boss fight, like something halfway between Tigrex and Nergigante, with a bunch of metal slapped on top of it.

I saw the “little lungs in a great big world” ads a lot growing up and that definitely traumatized me off of smoking. They were always playing on children’s tv channels but they were so graphic and I had asthma so I was like ‘my lungs are already little oh god’ whenever I got them on KZread videos it was like a race to hit the skip button before an episode of happy tree friends played out

@autumnuncle

9 ай бұрын

omg i remember those they were like claymation

@anxiousoptimism5517

9 ай бұрын

I remember those as well.

@crazyowlgirlcncowner

9 ай бұрын

Another asthmatic here also traumatized by how much I already struggle to breathe, even without smoking 💀

@iiCounted-op5jx

9 ай бұрын

bro that shit was weird 😭😭

@ep9158

9 ай бұрын

these genuinely horrified me, especially the skiing one in specific. i would have to physically turn and look away during those ads.

My friends and I used to shout "I learned it by watching you!" Whenever we basically did anything. That PSA was nothing but a joke.

@Cactrot

9 ай бұрын

Used to? It still hits 30 years later.

@juanvasquez6535

9 ай бұрын

This is a catchphrase in my life every day.

@mr.pavone9719

9 ай бұрын

I swear the Dad in that PSA was a porn star. Like, seriously. He looks exactly like a late 70s, early 80s porn star who went by the nom de film "John Seeman" .

@Andyanddiana467

9 ай бұрын

Haha! My wife and I still yell that to each other when we're goofing around.

@thatonedude9744

9 ай бұрын

I never once saw the ad air and I also use that phrase frequently

It may be a fear mongering method, but my mom’s stories about her brothers’ addictions and one of them dying from an overdose when I was a little kid and then saying “so don’t do drugs, they might not kill you the first time but eventually they will” was what ran through my mind every time I was offered drugs when I was living in a party house and made me not want to even try. Also that basketball player that died from a cocaine allergy or whatever, that was alarming enough for me to be like nah no thanks.

@loganmedia1142

Ай бұрын

One of our local anti-drug nuts would always pull out that eventually they'll kill you line. And yes, eventually we're all going to die. So when that guy who has enjoyed a bit of cocaine his whole life dies at 80 they can say I told you so. Basically your mom was peddling propaganda. Most recreational drug users are going to live long and full lives. If you're worried about things killing you should also avoid cars, bicycles and sport.

@kitkatbreaker1270

15 күн бұрын

Read the room dude​@@loganmedia1142

Recovering from a vaping addiction, every time i see an anti vaping ad i get reminded that i have that gnawing at the back of my mind and then it swirls around for an hour

the first time my family encountered that first ad, my sister and i both misheard him as saying "nipple and lead," invoking a level of terror and confusion previously unknown to us.

@ardenr3533

9 ай бұрын

lolll i always would imitate that ad and say nipple and lead

i think something that might actually for to help people stop vaping is showing how much money these tobacco companies are getting off OUR addictions. like you said, teens love to rebel

@imnottellingyoumyname6467

9 ай бұрын

As a teenager (15 in December), my angsty desire to rebel is probably a huge reason I don't vape. Seeing all of the 'popular' kids (who I want to be nothing like) and about two thirds of the people in my school vape just makes me look down on vaping more, in an 'I'm not like other girls' kind of way. It also just looks stupid, and since we don't know the long-term effects it might as well just be smoking in a different font

@PrincessNinja007

9 ай бұрын

Yeah if there's anything we've learned from *waves as the general state of things*, you can make anyone do anything by making a "they" that's trying to control your life. Don't smoke- that's what THEY want you to do!!!

@rewritefan123

9 ай бұрын

@@imnottellingyoumyname6467Ong bro, got called a pussy by the popular kid for not vaping. Im going to make sure to piss on there grave when they die of lung cancer in 15 years

@Dr.Twat.Waffle

8 ай бұрын

tobacco companies dont though. this isn't about them

@violetdusk1968

8 ай бұрын

The states make more money from taxes on nicotine than the tobacco companies do.

"everybody gets one conspiracy theory" * Wendigoon starts sweating *

@XragebootsX

Ай бұрын

He’s the reason everyone else only gets one. He took all the rest

The best anti-drug PSA I remember ever seeing was one where it was just a shot of a little girl dragging a float toy towards a pool, and the voice over saying "Just tell her parents you weren't watching her because you were getting high. They'll understand." It was part of a series of PSAs, but the rest were pretty normal teenage drama like missing your brother's birthday party or missing the big game, but then they brought dead toddlers into it and it's been burned into my brain for 25 years now. And for the record, no I don't smoke marijuana, even now that it's legal in my state. I don't know how connected those things are, but it's an interesting data point.

Best Anti-drug PSA I ever saw was one about meth in middle school. Kid is sitting in a coin laundromat in a hoodie. Another version of him with facial scarring walks in and threatens an old man and middle aged woman, who both cower in fear. He robs them of their coins, then approaches the original version of him and screams, “THIS WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE YOUR LIFE!” That shook me to the core, and I will never forget it.

@Shtickyaight

8 ай бұрын

Wow.

@mikeyizdead

7 ай бұрын

IVE SEEN THAT

@dr.random239

7 ай бұрын

That was literally such an amazing PSA. I didn't consider doing meth but after watching that I REALLY didn't consider doing meth

@athena6832

6 ай бұрын

All of those Not Even Once ads were incredibly powerful! I remember the one where the kid is about to do meth, he's looking over at this other guy lying on the floor screaming and picking his skin. The kid goes "I'm only going to do meth once, I'm not going to end up like that guy." Then it's a horrifying spiral of him repeating that same thing, increasingly desperate for it to be true. Until he's lying there, twacked out, and a girl this time looks over at him from across the room and says "I'm only going to do meth once, I'm not going to be like that guy."

@TShaloma

6 ай бұрын

I remember that one and felt the same way.

For me as a black woman the most effective “anti smoking” “lecture” was my teacher explaining the history of how drugs were used purposely to harm the black community, knowing my family lived through that. Learning the government would publicly speak out against drugs while selling it in my family’s neighborhoods with the goal of killing them. He never paired it with “never do drugs” but to educate us on the dangers and historical use of unregulated drug use. And what can happen as a result of poor education on these sorts of things. I remember being so mad. I remember how he told us about the history of black men being murdered and their privates being made into cigars. I was disgusted and a few kids made efforts to quit after. It was a raw and personal conversation. Less of a lecture and more of a conversation.

@starlightkid49

8 ай бұрын

I DIDNT KNOW ABOUT THE CIGAR THING??

@fatimacoulibaly1857

8 ай бұрын

​@starlightkid49 ❤\w

@Eliamaniac

8 ай бұрын

Reagan's war on drugs was such an effective way to stop his main electoral opposition from voting

@wizardthecat9808

8 ай бұрын

The American gov has been hypocritical about drugs since the anti drug movements started. It’s honestly gross to see them portray themselves as concerned heroes and leaders when in the background they are getting away with crimes that would make any decent person sick.

@samsparks151

8 ай бұрын

My history teacher talked about this an emphasized Biden’s roll in it that has been largely swept under the rug. Had no idea about the cigar thing that’s so messed up but not surprising. Models use foreskin to stay young apparently 💀 not sure what’s that all about

4:23 I asked my dad what D.A.R.E stands for (I was in the program a few years ago) and he said “Drugs are really epic” and I still laugh when thinking about it 😂

The only PSA that’s ever worked for me is that one with the smokers that had to get synthetic voice boxes. If they just showed those on repeat it’d work better than anything else from the last 10 years

@Kuntfetti

Ай бұрын

That one of that pretty girl who slowly turns into a deformed ugly lady really did it for me

The worst part of the “metal in your lungs” ad was that THEY PUT THE WILHEM SCREAM IN IT?!?!? I have no idea why they added a scream meant to be funny in an ad like that.

@TheTownHeifer

5 ай бұрын

THEY DID 😭 Finally someone mentions that

@thecluckster3908

5 ай бұрын

@@TheTownHeifer it’s bugged me ever since I first saw the ad

@ThatWorldWideWeb

3 ай бұрын

editor really looked up “scream sound effect free download” 💀

@ndi4926

3 ай бұрын

To lighten the mood and make you subconsciously not take this too seriously. People could carry coffins by with little psychological effect if they did the pole dance.

At San Diego Comic Con this year, they actually had a full sized model of the “metal monster” my wife and I took our pictures with. It was actually pretty cool. Only problem: unless you looked at the finest of fine prints on the poster that they handed out with each photo, you wouldn’t even know what the hell they were advertising.

@MaggieMaeFish

9 ай бұрын

Omg

@user-uv2cp1qd1j

9 ай бұрын

That’s so fucking funny. I can imagine someone coming up to it and being all “Yeah guy loving these transformers films these days” And when the staff at the booth start going on about vaping of all things

@amberhernandez

9 ай бұрын

That's metal!

@x_dana_x

9 ай бұрын

they could’ve easily had the metal monster stopping on a vape and it would’ve been a way to prove their point. and u know what? ppl probably would’ve liked it BUT INSTEAD they just skipped over their point almost entirely 😭

The best anti-smoking,drugs,alcohol,vape ad i ever seen was my own family in front of me over the years. Literally this week my grandmother spent $64 on a carton of cigarettes and then complains about having no money for other things. Heavy addiction blinders my family has. Scared me away from it all.

I remember in middle school I was in some sort of JROTC class. Our teacher taught us not to do drugs rather graphically. He showed us pictures of what the drug krokodil does. He talked about how he saw people who were so desperate to use it that they would inject it into their own eye. He talked about heroin addicts. He showed pictures of heroin addicts. He talked about the horrific effects of it. He did this with a few other drugs. Want to know what he didn't do? Straight up lie about the drugs. He didn't tell us how "marijuana will ruin your life" or how "if you drink anything while underage you'll die." He just said if you do hard drugs, you'll see horrific consequences. I'm pretty sure he even said something along the lines of "I'm not going to act like marijuana is some horrific drug that'll ruin your life, but it's not good for you."

@dNorsh

5 ай бұрын

And shit he ain’t fully wrong I mean we have done more research into weed but that is exactly how you do it my only thing is alcohol but I saw it through out my life destroy family and relationships very sad but yeah I’m lucky to have a mom like my mom that can ACTUALLY HELP WITH MY ADDICTION INSTEAD OF BEATING MY ASS AND MAKING ME COWER FROM TELLING MY PARENTS but yeah it’s nice to have those people

i will literally never get over “MMmmMMMmMm, deprEssiOn sTiCk” and how that sounds like a surreal meme instead of a psa and “if yOu liKe dEprEssiOn, you’ll LOVE anXiEtY” literally just sounds like a meme that would constantly circulate mental health humor forums

@V0IDFANGZ

5 ай бұрын

IT KINDA HAS MY FIRST IMPRESSION ON IT WAS SOMEONE ON TIKTOK/INSTA REELS SAYING THEY FOUND IT AND IT HAD THEM CACKLING

@Una_Mona

5 ай бұрын

It really is a 'XD funny, im 14 and this is deep' type of wording

@deepseabunnies

5 ай бұрын

It's very Omega Mart

@HumanzSuck

4 ай бұрын

I have anxiety but not depression, what does that mean for me….

@Dr.Freeman...

3 ай бұрын

@@deepseabunniesjust like omega mart, *you have no idea whats in store for you* ...

High Schoolers: "I vape because of the nicotine content. I enjoy the sensation nicotine produces, and I am fully aware of the fact that I'm addicted." Vaping PSAs: "Did you KNOW that VAPING can deliver ADDICTIVE NICOTINE into your LUNGS?!"

@ProfessionalBugLover

8 ай бұрын

“OMGG” *WAVES COLORFUL FRUITY STICK IN UR FACE* “DEFINITELY NOT SMOKE IT OMGGG” *SMOKES IT*

@BlackxExorcistitsyaboi

8 ай бұрын

I started vaping in highschool because I wanted nicotine without cigarettes. It calmed me down. PSAs telling me what I already know wouldnt stop me

@hotsexyangel

7 ай бұрын

Well yea, most kids know it’s addictive but they don’t think it could actually harm them so they keep doing it🤦🏼‍♀️ it’s just dumb

@cochiseseals

7 ай бұрын

@@BlackxExorcistitsyaboi Okay. But what about the fact you’ll end up with throat cancer if you don’t stop soon?

@cochiseseals

7 ай бұрын

@@BlackxExorcistitsyaboi After all, it does deliver the equivalent to like 1 or 17 packages of cigs. So, it’s only a matter of time. But I’d hope you stop before it gets to that. Besides, I’ve already seen someone post about how they have to use some tube through their throat or something. But it’s pretty gross. Plus the other stuff. But it’s whatever. To each it’s own.

hearing real stories of the bad trips people have had have been WAY more effective at making me not want to do drugs than literally anything else in my life

I genuinely can't count how many times I've seen that metal in your lungs ad

the annoying thing about that depression stick ad is like....it does help, that's the problem. From when I was 17 until fairly recently (im 23 now) I would smoke/vape and smoke weed a lot to "keep the demons at bay" so to speak. it helped me sleep, it helped me calm down, it helped me form coherent thoughts. what changed that now I'm trying to quit? i found out i have schizophrenia. it took my therapist sitting me down and telling me that scientifically, nicotine does help the symptoms but that the short term relief isn't worth the long term harm. it actually made him tear up talking about how it hurts him to see someone so young and bright eyed killing themself slowly. that's what made the change; genuine human connection.

@purplehood8418

8 ай бұрын

Glad you’re taking care of yourself! 💪🏽 😤

@Ariel-lol

8 ай бұрын

Vaping and smoking doesn’t fix your problems, it’s just temporarily pauses them. And that should be said more often. I hope you are doing well health wise now.

@Shtickyaight

8 ай бұрын

Damn I'm sorry bro

@hellworm

7 ай бұрын

smoking weed can actually increase your chances of schizophrenia under 20. i made sure they diagnosed me with it BEFORE I started smoking, to be sure

@atlas6864

7 ай бұрын

one of my friends is doing the same right now at 15 years old. was there anything specifically said that stuck with you and helped you get motivation to quit? I'm really worried and don't want it to get worse than it already is, but nothing i say seems to stick with him. no pressure to reply, of course. hope you're doing well!

i think an extremely effective bit of anti vaping messaging would be how disgustingly wasteful it is. seeing tiktoks or other videos of teens with storage tubs, desks, cabinets all full of empty disposable vapes upset me so much it really helped me to quit

@-originalLemon-

4 ай бұрын

I didn't need to quit vaping because I never vaped. #sonicthehedgehog

@purpleheart3431

4 ай бұрын

YES!!! Showing just how wasteful it is, especially to our more environmentally conscious people, seems way more effective.

@KOTYAR1

4 ай бұрын

Desks full of them are better than parks and streets littered with them. Seeing them in trash cans makes my blood boil, it's unhealthy

@rustyshackleford4117

3 ай бұрын

Right up there with getting people to stop drinking soda and water from plastic bottles, using plastic silverware and straws, and getting takeout in styrofoam. Good luck with that. Better idea, would actually be to ban disposables, and enforce the refillable vapes of old -- at least those don't result in the massive waste of plastic and lithium ion batteries.

@sammygecko_

3 ай бұрын

⁠@@-originalLemon- I can’t even begin to explain to you why having a sonic profile and username would make this the best thing ever It made me smile so much that I am saddened by the missed potential

Having teachers throw the “just say no” campaign at kids, while simultaneously not being able or given to tools to work with kids unless theyre dr**ged into quiet submission. Amazing. This is particularly about ADHD and my school ignoring his IEP Edit to add: the ads with stories like Debi’s are probably going to be the most effective… for me personally anyway. My coworker literally can’t talk because he smoked cigarettes. But you can also lose your lower jaw… which terrifies me the most but i am going to have to see that on a fairly regular basis.

the metal music genre has been used as a shorthand for a certain brand of cool for decades, specifically the saying "that's metal!" to express that something is passionate and hardcore and fiery. in no world would "that's metal! ...in your lungs" would have worked as a slogan because two of those five words were already really cool. and they wrote that slogan - picked those words - specifically because it's cool! which yeah, makes me a believer in the conspiracy theory that they're actually trying to trick you into vaping.

14:28 As a depressed person, seeing the “depression stick ad” really had me joking in my head “Why just depressed when I can be depressed AND breathe cookies and cream?! Yum!!” This is right up my alley in humor

@nilladrawsstuff

9 ай бұрын

As another depressed person I wish this shit came with cookies n cream smh 💀

@mynabirds

9 ай бұрын

I mean, i guess that's why people do it. If someone's depressed and doesn't believe in a future for themself, vaping or other drugs become a passive way out while still getting that high from it. These adds showing that vape kills you, while giving you a high before it does so, could almost be advertising these drugs directly to those people. But to someone who's never felt that way, these ads look like they're doing a good thing by showing how the cons (subjectively) outweigh the pros. So many people in the comment section say these ads are what make them want to go back to drugs after they are trying to quit, it's insane.

@junohawthorne7658

9 ай бұрын

I thought the same thing and then i saw a truth ad that said “it’s not just a GIVES YOU DEPRESSION stick, it makes it worse.” Like ok thanks for clarifying truth initiative (not word for word)

@lovestumacher

8 ай бұрын

I was just about to comment something similar! I have severe anxiety and depression, and every time I got one of those ads it made me laugh

@J_Diz

8 ай бұрын

Yeah but it makes you even more depressed

As someone trying to quit vaping for the second time yeah these psa’s have been making it harder to quit for me. Every time I get these ads I get cravings. The only modern one that sorta works was the one about how tobacco companies target marginalized communities. Today is my 11th day without smoking I know I’m not finished yet but I’m getting there. I’m going to stay vape free.

@holysanguis

9 ай бұрын

good luck!! and congrats

@aldene.9413

9 ай бұрын

I had the same experience when quitting. Good luck, you’ve got this!

@abigailbargdill3257

9 ай бұрын

Hey, Today marks week two for me of being smoke/vape free. We've got this! I totally relate to you on these ads actually being more triggering for cravings

@foxgender

9 ай бұрын

i believe in you!!! it will be difficult, but you can do it :)

@efronberlian

9 ай бұрын

you can do it. 3-4 weeks and it starts to get easier. Keep it up man!

I think that one of the things that makes it difficult to have those really hard-hitting PSA's like the woman missing her larynx is that people haven't started getting truly sick from vaping yet. We don't have long-term data (30+ years, for example) on what cancers or health effects substances inside vapes may or may not increase. The "Popcorn lung" scare involved maybe a dozen people smoking illicit weed products, which to someone motivated to not stop using nicotine smacks more of fearmongering than realism. If they want to get that dramatic impact they should bring nicotine-using stroke victims in - the primary serious negative health effect of the chemical nicotine is hugely increasing your stroke risk, especially since vapers can easily put down two packs of cigarettes a day worth of nicotine. Nicotine isn't a major carcinogen, that's the other stuff in smoke/tobacco, but a few videos with half-paralyzed faces talking about how they can't remember names or faces anymore could make a difference.

@MyPsAndQs

5 ай бұрын

you know i was just thinking about this last night. i don’t vape nicotine but i do vaporize thc and yeah we realistically have no significant data showing what could happen later… like what’ll happen when im 40??

@bungalowbernard

5 ай бұрын

@@MyPsAndQs no kidding. The only thing to do if you want to be sure is to not put anything in your lungs except regular air.

@MyPsAndQs

5 ай бұрын

@@bungalowbernard dude i drove a few hours to visit my friend yesterday and we both got no sleep. he stayed up with me as i drove after an 11 hour shift and got there early. but at about 10 last night we went into an abandoned garage near his university to moke 💨 bro i kid you not we’re 3-4 joints in and my friend needs assistance standing which then turns into us completely holding him up.. he loses consciousness at this point and begins to seize. one of our friends is a future doctor so luckily he stops him from swallowing his tongue. after he wakes up from the scariest and longest 20 seconds of our lives the same exact thing happens to me. EXACT SAME. dude i don’t know if it was staying up for 24hrs+ or if it was the nicotine or oui’d 🌱 or all in conjunction but man… wake up call for sure.

@loganmedia1142

Ай бұрын

But is it the nicotine that dramatically increases the risk of stroke? My recollection is that it is not.

As a long-time vaper who has stopped and restarted more times than I can count (currently stopped as of the solstice and not looking back), I think the most effective message would be that it becomes uncomfortable to do anything without having a few puffs every few minutes. Anywhere you can't vape becomes hell after more than 45 minutes. You'll pretend you're fine but all you'll be thinking about is when you can get away for a few puffs. You'll refuse invitations to places where vaping would be unacceptable. Plane rides will become unbearable. It removes most of the gross parts of smoking and replaces them with a sickly sweet gentle fog, allowing nicotine to perform its primary function even more effectively, which is to create an insatiable hunger that can never be satisfied

@dNorsh

5 ай бұрын

Yeah the thing for me is I get more unbearable and I hate it dude it sucks

"If you like anxiety, you'll LOVE depression!" is the funniest gdamn thing I've heard all day. I think if they actually sold a flavor of vape called "sadness" it would sell out.

@sourgreendolly7685

9 ай бұрын

Now I'm just picturing how popular that would've been with emo kids back in that day. I'm saying that as one of them. Wow I'm old. help😂

@manic_girl

9 ай бұрын

“Mmmmm… depression stick!” Is now a permanent ear worm in my brain

@InvisibleRen

9 ай бұрын

Right. So many young people going, “Well I’m depressed already, so this totally matches my aesthetic.”

@NyanCatHerder

9 ай бұрын

Yeah...the problem with using irony to convince people not to vape is the fact that people *like* irony. These ads are enjoyable, fun, and clever, which doesn't make vaping seem undesirable regardless of what they're saying. Given that the long term health effects of vaping aren't established to the extent of consensus among experts, it would probably be difficult to develop PSAs as effective as the better anti-tobbaco ads without being sued. Still, there are better options than gaudy, flashy special effects and ironic jokes.

I was so confused as a kid while learning from DARE cuz I didn’t even know what the fuck a drug was until DARE strolled into my kindergarten class. And you know what happens when you expose children to something they know nothing about? They get curious. I knew kids who were trying to get their parent’s medication after the DARE program “just to try it cuz it sounded cool” YIKESSSS DUDEEE.

@user-uo8ny1kj4c

9 ай бұрын

honestly, the reagan and nixon administration ruined communities by pushing hard drugs in black communities.

@PrincessNinja007

9 ай бұрын

DARE is the story of a bunch of scientists writing out a comprehensive plan and it being dropped straight into the shredder so cops could get more funding

@sallygirl1012

9 ай бұрын

It’s in the name "dare" to do drugs 😢

@twotruckslyrics

9 ай бұрын

the ad that always worked on me and not the stupid metal monster ad was the one where a kid steals money from his mom during the morning and his lil brother looks at him sad and 😭 i dont know man that just hurts

@kwasiahenkora6583

8 ай бұрын

@@sallygirl1012LMAO 😂

I think another problem specifically with the “depression stick” and “breath of stress air” PSAs is that they’re clearly meant to be parodies of adds for vapes except… I’ve never actually SEEN an add for a vape. Like I’m sure they exist, but these “parodies” are so much more common that they functionally just BECOME the thing they’re trying to parody

In the Netherlands we had an ad recently where a popular artist portrayed big tabacco, singing in a child labor factory about how he profits off your health. It wasn't perfect, but I'm sure it was more effective than what is apparently going on in the US...

My favorite anti drug ad is Lou Albano dressed as Mario telling you "Don't do drugs because you'll go to hell before you die" "Please" Apparently he had just lost his best friend to heroin. I used to think it was hilarious but years later after being addicted to just about every kind of drug it hits a lot differently

@nn8009

9 ай бұрын

"You'll go to hell before you die" is a really accurate description of opioid addiction especially the withdrawals if you try to quit or dont have access to any

Every time I see an anti-vaping ad, I get the urge to hit my vape. Multiple friends have said the same. I used to have a pretty severe binge drinking problem, and seeing ads like this about drinking is almost unthinkable. A sexy, enticing voice talking about tasty cinnamon flavored drinks, telling me if I like anxiety, I’ll love depression? That’s beyond unserious. I got alcohol poisoning while with friends one night, pissed myself, had two seizures, and probably would’ve died if they hadn’t taken me to the ER. If it might kill me, tell me it might kill me and give me a reason to care about myself and the future. Don’t show me a cool CGI dinosaur.

@DownTrodded

9 ай бұрын

Same with my sister she’s suicidal show her a don’t off yourself ad and shes like maybe I will yea that does sound like a good idea and then gets an anxiety attack and shuts down like a stoner with the munchies.

@scream_kinh614

9 ай бұрын

Same. All it did was make me want to vape more and the vaping as a hobby turned into vaping ad an addiction lol

@olfrud

9 ай бұрын

@@scream_kinh614just out of curiosity, how can vaping be a hobby? what’s the appeal there?

@scream_kinh614

9 ай бұрын

@olfrud I think I began doing it as kind of a stim? For context, I've got adhd and autism and an oral fixation. I'd call it a hobby as i could go months without it and not think about it, I'd only take a couple puffs throughout the day and I wouldn't calculate how to get the most put of every vape, and I didn't count down the minutes till I could vape next. It was just something I did with my friends or when I wanted to do something orally. But as time went on it got to be a dependency

@DownTrodded

9 ай бұрын

@@scream_kinh614 That’s addiction the first part was to it was never a hobby you were just more mentally strong aka better at fighting off the need making it seem that it wasn’t what it was. Most addicts start out this way they don’t fully need it and sorta do it as a hobby from time to time it takes a while for it to take hold of your brain chemistry and dopamine receptors.

"Don't think of an elephant!" ~Elephant Thoughts Prevention Initiative

it feels like i'm listening to jinx from arcane tell me that the government sucks and i am ALL for it

The PSA burned into the back of my brain is Mario telling the viewer that if you do drugs, you'll go to hell before you die

@damian9303

8 ай бұрын

That’s Captain Lou

@jerrymajors8132

7 ай бұрын

​@@damian9303aka Mario from the live action segments of the Super Mario Brothers Super Show

@coltonpatterson5409

7 ай бұрын

Then he gives one final, earnest "Please."

@RockandrollNegro

6 ай бұрын

Which is funny in retrospect, knowing that Captain Lou was quite fond of cocaine and qualudes.

@TheManWithTheFlan

6 ай бұрын

@@RockandrollNegro I mean, I guess that meant he had firsthand knowledge?

Fr though because when I was trying to quit nicotine (almost 3 years clean) I kept getting those "anti-vaping" ads, which only made it ten times more difficult. Calling a juul a "depression stick" just sounds like a joke someone would make. Also, it would have texts popping up on screen (it's formed in a way to mimic instant messenger), such as, "You're all alone," or "time for nicotine". What's even more interesting is that the longer I've been clean from nicotine, the less anti-vaping ads I get, almost as if they're targeting people who are quitting. Not once did I get those ads when I was actually smoking, only when I was trying to quit.

@dilfluvr_

8 ай бұрын

that is quite literally happening to me right now. i quit this week and suddenly every ad I get is antj-vape ads. I definitely would get them on occasion before but it’s crazy now

@matthewW97

8 ай бұрын

That's crazy I only got those ads when I was quitting. Super triggering and made me want to crack. Now that I've been off for a while, I haven't see any.

@matthewW97

8 ай бұрын

@@dilfluvr_ stay strong

@alexodom3288

8 ай бұрын

i hadn't realized that since i quit 2 months ago but you're right i haven't seen as many ads

@dilfluvr_

8 ай бұрын

@@matthewW97 thanks homie :’) it’s been tough but i’m 10 days free of nic and i feel so good!! to anyone looking to quit, the cravings initially suck so fucking bad but they truly do ease down with time. we got this :D

I like to watch banned or "cursed" PSA's on occasion, and in my opinion, the most effective ones are the ones that feel the most real. Like, someone having scars or deformities, and suffering through the side effects and health issues of smoking or drug use. I don't know if anyone else remembers those anti-smoking ads, where people had holes in their necks, and were talking about things like not getting it wet in the shower and how to do stuff. It was terrifying, seeing that as a child. And I'm pretty sure they even had a little song? Like, "If you smoke, they'll cut a hole in your throat." And this was presented as a guarantee- like, if you smoke at all, doctors are gonna cut a hole in your neck Another one was these terrifying monster things that were disgusting to look at, and they would always be around kids. The message was something about how if you smoke or do drugs, your children will think you're a monster. Not as effective, but still pretty spooky.

The 90s: “stay away from drugs or you will die immediately!” Also the 90s: “here’s a pack of fruit-scented markers. have fun, kids!”

I literally had a friend tell me that “depression stick” made them want to vape

@LeaveMeAlone3omgIgotloggedouta

9 ай бұрын

I’m VERY anti-drug, but I’d be lying if I said that “cookies n cream” didn’t make me feel even slightly tempted to try it (also I have diagnosed anxiety which just added on to it).

@clemonkey

9 ай бұрын

@@LeaveMeAlone3omgIgotloggedoutafr

@nevaeh9125

9 ай бұрын

I had clicked on that depression stick ad by accident because YT's UI sucks and decided to scroll down to the comments. Most people were saying how the ad made them wanna continue vaping and/or relapse because it was so bad. Hell, even I wanted to vape even though I've never done so before. I also named a Spotify Playlist "Depression Stick" just because it was stuck in my head and couldn't think of anything else

@LeaveMeAlone3omgIgotloggedouta

9 ай бұрын

@@nevaeh9125 that’s insane

@katiebatten5794

9 ай бұрын

It makes it sound like a stick that cures depression, not causes it

YES! I've been saying for years about how unsettling it is that vapes are marketed to children. The bright colours, the sweet flavours, the relatively cheap price. Most of my friends had never touched a cig when they started vaping. One of my friends started smoking as A WAY TO QUIT VAPING!!! And without the introduction of vapes, smoking and nicotine would have almost died out in young people. I can't believe this level of manipulation is legal.

@emmalineconrad244

8 ай бұрын

taking up smoking to quit vaping is so real. not having the flavors, having to go outside, smelling like stale smoke until you change your clothes... genuinely think switching to darts can help people quit vaping. I've seen friends do it and I might try it myself. I started with cigs when I was a teen and smoked them on average a few times a week for years with occasional binges, but I never had cravings outside of that. of course plenty of people do, but it never became a regular enough habit for me that I felt like I couldn't quit or would have withdrawal symptoms. when juul came out everything changed so quickly. everyone around me had one, before long I did too, and that was six or seven years ago and I'm still addicted. I really do think that just the hassle of having to stop what I'm doing, put on a coat, go outside, and feel dizzy and nauseous after the first few inhales would be enough to deter me or at the least help me taper down significantly. Smoking darts is hard enough to quit, but the ready availability of vapes, the myriad of flavors, cute designs, and zero effort required to smoke them are setting kids up for a lifetime of severe addiction. it's like a baby having to quit a pacifier, but there's no parent to take it away, it's everywhere, and everyone you know is offering you one if you do manage to get rid of yours. it blows my mind to see my little cousins, some of them as young as 12, passing it around like it's a toy. I think the elfbar types are particularly insidious, waaaay too many flavors, so bright and cute and modern looking, relatively cheap and couldn't be easier to get. now that the train's left the station, I don't know how you stop it. even if they ban them, people will still be importing versions that might be even more dangerous and utterly unregulated. I think this is going to become a major major problem in healthcare, and it's going to start affecting people younger and younger. these companies suck so fucking bad, and clearly the "awareness campaigns" do too. like, yeah, I'm aware of vaping, thanks for reminding me about it lmfao. soul sucking cretins.

@BryanJohnson4891

8 ай бұрын

⁠Vapes don’t get nearly hot enough to put metals in your lungs in any relevant quantity even after decades of heavy use. Hence why countries like the U.K. who rank twenty places above the US in healthcare quality - a country mind you that DOESNT HAVE TOBACCO COMPANIES PAUING FOR ANTI VAPING ADS LIKE THE US DOES (search truth initiative), say vaping is 99% safer than cigarettes. Nobody has ever died from legal nicotine vapes. Nobody has ever contracted a serious health condition from them. And long term studies? 1. We don’t need them if each ingredient has been studied for 70 years already And 2. We have 20 year studies showing zero serious health conditions caused by vapes. The CDC is literally paid by tobacco companies to lie about vapes. Not a conspiracy they accept billions from Phillip Morris et Al annually. And the only people who lose from vaping are tobacco companies. Vape liquid and vapes have far smaller profit margins than cigarettes. The vaping fear in the US is moronic. If all current smokers switched to vapes and all non smokers also started vaping, that would be better than having 5% of the population smoke.

@JohnDoeWasntTaken

8 ай бұрын

@@emmalineconrad244 I've been a vaper since 16 years old and only smoked a single cig in my life. If vapes were never invented I'd have never developed a nicotine addiction so they really are some evil stuff. No matter how bad I withdraw off nicotine though I never reach for a cig, I threw my vapes away yesterday and I'm done with nic.

@moondalo5612

7 ай бұрын

I’ve literally had to start smoking cigarettes to quit

@hellworm

7 ай бұрын

​@@moondalo5612can you try nic patches or gum

That lady smokin from her throat is the most metal thing ever

thats why in poland PSA's dont exist. we just put pictures of half rotten teeths, black lungs straight from dissection, impotent depressed dude and other photos on the packages of cigs

@Moocow2003

Ай бұрын

i know a guy who started smoking as a teenager whose ambition is to become one of the photo models for the tobacco packaging

I'm a substitute teacher and just this week I was teaching a health module about first aid and they discussed illegal drugs. I'm sad to report that "Just Say No" is alive and well in California classrooms. They gave absolutely nonsense advice to my students and I felt so disgusted reading it to them.

@arthurjohnson7473

9 ай бұрын

Did you let them know it was nonsense advice? Like when the math teacher goes, "Yeah, this particular subject actually WON'T help you in the day-to-day."

@mertenshire2202

9 ай бұрын

Substitute teacher as well! Sometimes the worst part of being a sub is having to teach the kids the nonsense put together by the regular teacher and/or school administration. Like abstinence only or just say no 🤮🤮🤮

@DavidJamesHenry

9 ай бұрын

@@mertenshire2202 I also taught them about risk management so hopefully the nonsense is tempered by my actually sound advice

@Bobzilla206

9 ай бұрын

It would be best to show them junkies in the inner cities slouched over with their ass sticking in the air shitting their pants. Or tell them to go to an NA AA etc. meeting.

@DavidJamesHenry

9 ай бұрын

@@Bobzilla206 that genuinely doesn't help anyone. It's just more scaremongering.

There was a set of commercials, maybe in the late 2000s or early 2010s, that was very effective at scaring me off from smoking (among other factors). One was about a man pulling his own teeth out to pay for a box of cigarettes, and one was about a woman (I think) tearing her skin off for a pack. Both of those made me so sick to watch, but they worked.

@ambrosiadreamer

9 ай бұрын

THESE ONES YEAH. i think abt the skin one all the time. she takes off her cheek to pay for a pack and it represented how smoking can ruin your skin. those and the one where it's a science class and the pack of cigs turn into some kinda bug monster thing scared the shit outta me. i eventually started smoking (and then vaping).... but only when the "hello fellow kids" commercials were a thing LMAO

@sceneshootergirl88

9 ай бұрын

I REMEMBER THOSE 😭

@anny8720

9 ай бұрын

wait the skin one is unlocking a forgotten memory 😭 I think I watched that one too during a health class, I also saw a documentary that included a person with a hole in their throat from smoking. I think disgust is a effective deterrent for anti smoking ads

@leaf2182

9 ай бұрын

i remember these oh my god they were traumatizing, they're still engraved in my brain

@trppstar

9 ай бұрын

Wasnt that long ago lol

Not only does "that's metal" sound cool - as an actual metalhead, it's literally what we say(with tongue in cheek irony) to mean "that's very, extremely cool". Obviously they knew that, but while I'm sure they'd pretend to be using it with their own sense of irony, there's no way they didn't know that there would be a counter productive "double irony"(ironiception) to their use. This ad was definitely designed to boost vape sales. PS: As someone born in 1981, the American(my country didnt do these war on drug style ads) DARE ads literally made me curious about drugs, and led to me starting to smoke marijuana at 12 years old.

My sister and I would cut cigarettes in half and shove them back into the box hoping that our mom would stop smoking. My mom started smoking in high school when she was 16. She’s lost teeth, she missed out at events because she needs smoke breaks, and you can smell smoke seeping out of her pores- she looks older than she is. My sister started vaping at 14, she’s 17 now. She said “nic hasn’t killed mom.” All her friends do it, it smells good and tastes good. Even though she has has been hospitalized from a vape, she continues to vape. My mom takes her vapes away but she always just gets more, the way my mom would always just get more cigarettes. I have lung problems from the second hand smoke I got as a kid, I can’t escape the coughing when my roommates vape in the house. I have never smoked or vaped, but I’m still suffering because of it. Save yourself and your friends, your family, from the stress and pain of nicotine.

@aceisaperson

7 ай бұрын

I felt this. My grandma has smoked pretty much her whole life, same with my papa. Both of them have lot a lot of teeth and the ones they do have are gross and rotten. I was a pretty athletic kid, I loved running around doing whatever. But as I grew up I started developing breathing issues and was eventually diagnosed with asthma. Had to quit volleyball because I just couldn’t do it, I couldn’t breathe. I vaped for a little while in middle school but quit because it made me feel sick. Everyone knows I used to do it, everyone also knows I quit a long ass time ago. But I still get people that vape near me just because they know I won’t snitch. It’s suffocating and pisses me off. I get mad at my grandparents too. People never consider anyone around them when they smoke or vape.

@rdz-1776

7 ай бұрын

stay strong 💪

@ieaturanium235

6 ай бұрын

I'm so sorry... my heart goes out to you

@svyatoyaleksnevskiy

6 ай бұрын

Out of curiosity, what was it about the vaping that led to her hospitalization?

@lovableasshole

5 ай бұрын

You need to get different roommates 😬 these people sound like they suck

I’ve been nicotine free since April now. The most difficult thing about quitting wasn’t seeing people around me vape. It wasn’t the smell of fruity vape juices enticing me when I was in public around vapers. It wasn’t even having vapes in my possession. The hardest thing about quitting was the stupid anti vaping ads showing me all the reasons I started vaping, and reminding me that the self destructive behavior I chose to partake in would in fact hurt me in the way I wanted it to when I started vaping almost 3 years ago. I think what they wanted me to think was “oh, that’s bad, I shouldn’t do that” without realizing that myself and others who partook knew the negatives and still chose to hurt ourselves. There needs to be more thought put into the fact that people know it’s self destructive and those, like myself, who struggled with self harm through youth found that to be a way out. As terrible as the thought is, many vapers started as an alternative to traditional self harm and saw vaping as a way out because it’s so deadly. The ads don’t help remind us of all the reasons we should stop, it reminds us why we started and how easy it would be to keep going and let it take our lives.

@wadexworld83

9 ай бұрын

Fuck, this hits a little too on the mark.

@Dak-xf5qj

9 ай бұрын

yay i now have a new existential crisis to deal with

@ZebraLuv

9 ай бұрын

They have substitutes that are water used to prevent relapse. Some have vitamins or calming supplements or caffeine. Some people even switch to nebulizer inhalers or other steam devices. The cold turkey quit is proven to not work and half the addiction is the ritual of the habit. So it's good they have options of substitution.

@cinderfox5217

9 ай бұрын

Yeah my friend with only one kidney paired with heart and lung issues bought cigarettes and smoked the whole pack, I asked him why and he just said he was desperate. At the time I thought it was the dumbest excuse I’d ever heard. But you describing it as self harm actually really makes sense with what they were going through at the time

@justinelighthouse6047

9 ай бұрын

Good job

They made more of them that are basically like, “if you get caught vaping, your parents will be disappointed in you. Awkward.” Totally useless.

I wasn’t gonna smoke this morning, but as soon as that quote about “casual drug users being shot” was uttered I had to go hit the bong

@greatguyboy

2 ай бұрын

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL IM GONNA BUST AT HOW COOOOOOOL YOU ARE😂😂😂

The most effective anti-vaping vids I've seen werent even ads. They were tiktoks featuring friends who couldnt find their vapes freaking out and sobbing. Because who wants to be the person losing their mind bc they cant find their cancer stick

@miikart

5 ай бұрын

Where are they lol

@neonradius

5 ай бұрын

@@miikarthonestly I keep seeing them everywhere but just google “kid loses vape tiktok” and you get a lot of youtube compilations and sludge content about it (i’d link it but youtube comments with links get removed as scams)

@mountelbert4214

5 ай бұрын

The best anti-drug media for me was “Not and Addict” by K’s Choice, which basically just shows what it’s like to come off a high. Trouble is, it’s a 90s rock song, yet it’s more effective than all the media I’ve consumed from other places

@I_enjoy_some_things

5 ай бұрын

That happens to no one lol.

@hubertcumberdale2570

5 ай бұрын

@@I_enjoy_some_thingsI actually have a friend who forgot their vape at the house and freaked out so bad that we had to drive back to pick it up. It does happen.

Every time I see an anti vaping ad, I immediately hit my vape and laugh, but seeing the original cancer anti-smoking ad, it actually made me think twice. I think that says enough honestly

@Dr.Twat.Waffle

8 ай бұрын

it's propaganda

@Jerry-cg9ni

8 ай бұрын

"YOU WILL HAVE HEALTHY FUNCTIONAL LUNGS"@@Dr.Twat.Waffle

@Andyatl2002

8 ай бұрын

@@Dr.Twat.Waffle, why is it propaganda, do you know what the definition of propaganda is

@tyegordon

8 ай бұрын

Yeah I haven’t vaped in like 10 days now and I’m still getting anti vaping ads but they ALWAYS just make me want to vape.

@nevaehonrefni

8 ай бұрын

​@@Dr.Twat.Wafflehow is showing what smoking can do propaganda. Do you know the definition??? You have a fallout art styled Trump. You should know what actual propaganda is from that video game alone-

My school had a police officer get brought in and told a vivid story about how he found his brother dead in an ally, eye bulging out from laying on the concrete over night (I am toning it down a bit.) I think some just got very concerned about taking *any* drugs, legal or not.

The "thats metal" ad reminds me of those out of the world 5 gum ads that absolutely made people want to go out and buy 5 gum

These PSAs confused me so much I thought they literally made anti-depressants in the form of a vape. I literally looked it up because I could not believe it.

@TIGERTHATROARS

9 ай бұрын

Yeah the messages from those ads came off confusing. Like they were offering a new depression medication instead of advertising the dangers of vaping lol

@mmmicrowave

9 ай бұрын

the first time i saw one i thought it was a shitpost... i was very confused to see that it was an actual ad