Deadly Persuasion: The Advertising of Alcohol & Tobacco

[Natchrall]

Wow, nobody has hope for a better place where activities spike and people have brains and are healthy ... That's sad ... I feel you, changing the world seems hopeless but if people believed in the power or belief alone it could lead to possibilities. Combine that with action and unity- real dedicated people can make a difference. FUCK NON BLIEVERZ AND CRITICS and who ever installed that fear in you!

[kinkyplunk]

read some c hitchens

[lax893]

guess what, people drink and people smoke, it happens. Haven't we learned that putting drinking or smoking on a pedestal is the best possible way to make more people want drink or smoke? Arguably unhealthy diets (count the number of food commercials compared to either alch or tobacco) kill far more people than smoking. Case and point, it's impossible to eliminate every non "kosher" thing from the media. The lady is clearly an idiot and making a tired and invalid point.

[anonb8]

i can assure you that nothing will change in america or the world for that matter. Its optimistic thinking that "it all starts with you!". When i went to Saudi Arabia, i found the ban of alcohol quiet amazing and was impressed but only to find that in saudi, alcohol was more popular than other illicit drugs and thus was selling more than even marijuana!

[ad356]

nicotine is not the killer, its 4,000 chemicals contained in cigarettes. nicotine is the addicting agent

[njhawkes08]

I had to watch this for health class. Alcohol isn't bad if your a responsible person. Just don't stupid things. Drink responsibly. If you smoke your just an idiot. Smoke weed if anything......

[Siva3Enthroned]

Great video but some she makes some pretty amateurish correlations.

[pinchiponcho831]

if you think drugs and the psychology of advertising are nasty , wait till you see the personalities of the people

[TruthinessDotCom]

[PART 2]

So why hyper-inflate an already major issue? Well in Canada and the US,insurance companies can charge REDICULOUS amounts of money for assurance plans. The longer you live,the more you pay. If you die of ANYTHING:heart attack,stroke,cancer of any type,the list goes on,they don't have to pay your family a cent if there is any nicotine in your system. ALSO in Canada,the taxes on cigarettes are ASTOUNDING!

[TruthinessDotCom]

[PART 1]

I AM NOT suppoorting or condoning smoking cigarettes! I would NEVER support smoking. But think of this: is it possible that smoking death counts are skewed,like the 'Swine Flu Deaths,' when you look at the actual stats individually you see that in many cases,actually it turned out to be all cases of H1N1 deaths,that while the people who died of heart attacks,even one case involved a car accident,the blood tests showed that the person had H1N1 and was labled as death WITH...

[dihle12]

always focus more on tobacco how bout alcohol here in australia we have alot of rescrictions on tobacco but of course very little on alcohol time to even the playing field

[vvdolci]

The information this video presents on tobacco and alcohol abuse is shown in a clear manner to people who are not aware of these issues. The graphics and commercial clips used really drive home the message of how well these products are marketed. They percieve young, healthy, beautiful people in their ads to to make it seem like alcohol or tobacco use is cool and fun. This video also shows how they are targeting the youth even though the companies deny it.

[blankcanvasgirl]

sure blame the world fuck responsibility.

[kgdog100]

@blankcanvasgirl ha i like how you made it so simple

[jasoneb2006]

Oh yeah! Let's take the focus off the individual and put it on the whole world! What a pant load! Whenever I hear this stuff, all I hear arwe jack-boots goose stepping down the street as our bloated government takes more of our freedoms and rights and sucks them into their gigantic vaccum! I chose to smoke; nobody forced me! I'l admit advertising influenced me, that's what it's for. I chose to drink, same reason and circumstance. THE INDIVIDUAL IS THE ONE RESPONSIBLE, NOT THE WORLD YOU TWIT!!!!!

[mobychoc]

ok there is a problem, but she gave no real solution or idea as how to solve this problem.

[greatestsongsofLIFE]

legalize cannabis and kids wouldnt die from alcohol overdose or tobacco caused cancer. I have mouth cancer (stage 1 thank god i have a fighting chance) i wish i had access to cannabis tintcure and such cause i wouldnt need alchol or chewing tobacco. Cannabis is NOT a poisen but is illegal?@!?? what the fuck?

[mheadbanger]

Btw chewing and cigars IMO is way better then cigs

[mheadbanger]

My god companys use advertising to sell their products?!?!?! I thought it was for entertaiment purposes (sarcasm)

[khh1964]

I was the most anit-smoking kid I knew. Of course gave in to find out what was so good about it. Been a smoker for 13 years, chest pains at 25. I regret smoking these things more than any bowl or joint ever lit up

[mrzack888]

if it weren't for cigarettes, booze, illegal wars, fluoride in the water, genetically modified foods, then the world population would be at 10 billion people.  and we can't have that.

[hengeworks]

This just makes me want to light up...

[DDoug320003]

i think she needs to find a man and get layed big time

[dumbtrooper]

the frogs and crocodile whit the 24 beer box say its the bud for  you

lol bud mean a bud like weed bud

[Koolvedge]

Excellent, Very True, and Enlightening!!! Thank you immensely.

[E1Padrino]

I fuck the tobacco and alcohol industrie :)

[Rayster84]

ill fuck this speaker

[scootermo]

I have smoked over 20 years. I'm trying to quit because of health problems it is causing. I cant hardly do it. Until I tried, I didnt know how bound I was to tobacco. If you really want to quit, there are free programs in your state that WILL help. You just have to call and ask. Free patches, coaching, etc..

sm

[luzcaetano]

Big deal.... take it easy women...i smoke and i drink on weekends im european i did nt start because of any add. Lets just bann every video game aswell while we re at it lets ban junk food, petrol powered cars, leather jackets, womens make up, violent sports and lets not forget Porn and mankind will all live happily with the lions and the rest of the animals in harmony next to waterfalls and all wear the same clothing and beleive in one god.

Lets all relax this is life live it cut the BS

[pack55]

You proudly state that, in spite of overwhelming evidence of tobacco's damage, you still choose to smoke. That is the definition of stupid, not cool.

You make the same lame old argument, let's ban everything bad. Well, stupid, tobacco kills the equivalent of 2 jumbo jets full of people every day. No other vice comes close.

If advertising did not work, they would not spend billions doing it.

They depend on stupid people to actually believe they are making an independent choice.

[luzcaetano]

Cool down pack55 im not promoting cigarette smoking here and i really dont need lectures about the harm smoking causes...the 2 jumbo jet story ive heard that allready, I think we are all aware of that! I respect non smokers all im saying is why not non smokers respect my choice to smoke. I really could of guest that only an arogant american would reply like that, grow up, the US is the most poluting nation in the world and makes more cigaretts than europe together..think about that dickhead!

[Rantandreason]

A) You clearly have zero idea about how advertising works.

B) you're creating a logical fallacy. She's talking about alcohol and cigarettes, not all the other things you listed. This isn't a slippery slope scenario, she's talking about drugs, period.

[ashesofthewake9g]

WHERE ARE THE PARENTS!?

[belac206]

i dont really remember any cigarette ads, im not old enough. but i smoke, how would this jean killborne explain that? smoking laws are getting ridiculous, as far as banning smoking outside in public. as far as the alcohol ads being geared toward our youth, theres no surprise. advertising is supposed to appeal to people, it gives the youth of today something to look forward to, and the youth of yesterday something to look back on. its just a company advertising their product...

[BrazilianQueen]

A product that doesn't do anything good for you at all, yet they make it seem like it's fun. It's not. It's slowly killing you from the inside out.. Your lungs, your heart. Like that's your body. You only have one. Take care of it for your own good :)

[belac206]

who is "they"? and how are they making me think that smoking is fun? there hasnt been a single smoking ad in years. if anything got me into smoking, it was the fact that i was young and rebellious and people are always talking of the dangers of smoking. so naturally i'm going to try it in spite of everyone. in reality, YOU people are the ones getting young kids to smoke. have you ever told a kid not to do something? i'd say 75% of the time they're gonna do it and find out why the hard way.

[blackshogun77]

brazillian queen, wait till all the Starbucks coffee and Cosi and Panera Bread add up. Big companies are always trying to sell things that are bad to us and they always package it with a pretty blonde woman to make it sexy.

[wqwqwqwq12345]

I love this woman.

[theSkippyspartan]

Facts are true, ciggarrets are bad. But yet people have the right to smoke them....banning it would only cause more peopel to smoke it and you ahve another illegal drug in streets. But can someone help me here udnerstand soemthing. Is it the tobbacco that cause the bad side effects..or the crap load of chemicals put in them. Or are almsot 50/50

[canibalpanda]

wooooooo!!!!!!!!!! Crit Comp Block E!!!!!!!!!

[GothProf]

I LOVE this woman! Jean Kilbourne's insight is wonderful- She is against ADVERTISING manipulation- not smokers and drinkers. I am amazed at how many replies miss her point.

[81scalle]

The information is good, but this video is a shit. Why is this woman reading a paper? Look at the camara!

[TheBigDumbCrowd]

Hi everyone!

[agelic]

So true. So sad. Advertisment-created addicts. Poisoning themselves (and those downwind of them).

Plainly stealing future health-budget monies; from the genuinely ill. Bypassed to the knowingly, deliberately self-generated sick, cancerous and dying nicotine-fiends.

[EasyEs]

Fuck They do make them Darts look cool.. Outa the way bitch I wanna look cool.. on second thought I pay enough Tax

[JohnHolmes3000]

Anyone so flabergastingly stupid as to do what he's told by advertising is a pollutant of the human gene pool and is therefore a public health issue. May he die.

[dg858]

fuckin bitch

[GothProf]

Why? This women has excellent, insightful points. Time to grow up dude.

[novoare]

He is scared, he just found out he is going to die sooner. lol.

[geekboyII]

smoking or not smoking people will eventually die. So what's the point of not smoking? You're gonna die anyway. Just smoke moderately, about a pack a week.

[prelan]

i feel so cheated. simple as that. like i allways thought it was cool to smoke and drink... now that i'm 20 i'm thinking... not cool.

[GrilledCS]

Listen to this lady and you'll live forever!

Give me a break! More meaningless and misleading statistics from the people who brought you meaningless and misleading statistics! More smiley-faced communism for the masses. Empty utopian crap. Oh, I forgot; communism is a scare word and totalitarianism only happens to stupid people from another time from other countries; we're enlightened Americans and that will never happen to us. Grow up.

[RCAVictor12759]

Smoke and drink what you want it's no ones biz as long as your old enough. Enough of the dictators.

[GothProf]

You missed the point- Kilbourne's ideas focus on ADVERTISING. You may want to attempt to spell 'you're' correctly too.

[noxiscool]

I don't like this film.

[swensu]

i did not no that all of them combined is this woman shitting me wow

[midflea34]

i don't understand why some called this vid communist.they cant make you do any therapy or treatment as long as your over 18.and you shouldn't be smoking or drinking young anyway.duh.that shit messes with your growth.

[Jsmooth7444]

alcohol and tobacco industry dont even NEED to advertise, everyone knows already, its retarded, stop advertising this useless shit on TV, one less commercial please.

[tattypatty]

these videos are retarded. I am not a baby, nor are any of the women I know. How about personal responsibility? You make me ashamed to call myself a liberal....

[USFella]

To accept that advertising affects people does not mean that those people are childish. People often model themselves after the behavior of celebrities. If the tobacco industry felt that advertising didn't work, they wouldn't pay to have products or smoking in films. And your personal choices are often shaped in your youth, before your sense of self is fully developed and when you are more susceptible to manipulation.

[tattypatty]

In the 80's, kids shot themselves in the head after listening to Judas Priest records and we screamed bloody murder when the government got involved. Maybe the people who fall for this shit were fuck-ups to begin with...

[AmbientMusic]

Watch out when the government comes round saying they are here to help YOU! The Judas Priest/suicide kids 'issue' was a complete fabrication anyway. An Urban Myth.

[AmbientMusic]

Well all right tatty! We're all adults here I would assume. When did America go from being 'Land of the Free, Home of the Brave' to a perpetual 'Nanny State' where everything we do must be monitored and regulated. It seems we had more freedom in the US when I was 18 than we do now! I was never carded then for alcohol, or to get into a Casino. Last week, I got carded at Wallyworld buying a can of SPRAY PAINT! I shit you not! But we are spreading FREEDOM to Iraq. Give me a break!!!

[AmbientMusic]

Eighteenth Amendment - Prohibition of Intoxicating Liquors - Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

[swhardcore]

Stop trying to be cool you're really fuckin lame.

[AmbientMusic]

I don't have to try baby, I AM. Check this out 21st Amendment - Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Prohibition was a Bloody Failure, like your Father.

[speccwolf]

Alcohol isnt still classified as a drug.

[LeoLovesRock]

i smoke and drink, but with moderation. and theres no health or psychological problems to me.

[Blake4014]

How would you know?

[LeoLovesRock]

because i dont cough, or have any other discomfort. remember, i said with moderation, and not every day.

[zeroamericanhero]

thank you for taking the time posting this vid. i will b using this for a class assignment. :)

[AmbientMusic]

You will no doubt Ace your class assignment. Why this is the foundation of Political Correctness straight from the early 90's...about the same time America beginning swirling down drain towards the slippery slope of Neo-Marxism.

[rambo26]

it should all be completely legal

Live free or die

[swhardcore]

Alcohol is a really underrestimated drug, it really is a hard drug.

[AmbientMusic]

Like cough syrup?

[AndrooUK]

Am glad advertising tobacco is illegal in the UK, just wish it were for alcohol too.

[AmbientMusic]

Sure. Why not bring back Total Prohibition. Repeal the repealing of the Anti-Alcohol Amendment to the Constitution. Hell, just tear up the Constitution and replace it with Das Kapital why don ya. Jeesh.

[babybunnyberry]

You are boring. Start reading to see if you learn something about the way the real world works.

[babybunnyberry]

I insist, AmbientMusic, you are as vacuous as your nick implies. Let people who are ineterested in an intelligent discussion say something, and go drag your knuckles somewhere else.

[AmbientMusic]

NEW DISCRIMINATION LAW "If passed, House Bill 282 would require restaurants to follow guidelines set by the state's health department to determine a customer's obesity, banning those considered too fat to serve." I'm a skinny dude, but I have no hate in my heart. Much like the much vilified smoker by the Nico Nazis, 'fats' are the next group to get the Nanny State treatment. This is hate sponsored by the Insurance Industry.

[babybunnyberry]

That info is pure BS. So now you are all for love and peace? What about corporate responsibility? Or in your mindless capitalist mind corporations are supposed to be all-powerful? Yey! Let's all consume! Shop till you drop! Don't give a thought to anything and legalize all drugs! After all, we are all experts on how to produce everything, so we will ALWAYS make informed choices, right? *YAWN*

[AmbientMusic]

Look It Up Lazy Pinko Leech. House Bill 282.

[babybunnyberry]

Oh, *I* am lazy? Of course! I forgot that actually campaigning for positive changes and attempting to hold people accountable of their evildoings now equates laziness! Please, do not let me stand on the way of your putting your foot in your mouth!

[AmbientMusic]

You are a Marxist, a parasite living off unearned wealth derived from the hard work and labor of others. Yes you are a Lazy Czech Commie!

[babybunnyberry]

Er... I am not Czech, you filthy little toerag. I live here. As in, I have worked abroad for over 5 years. AND loving it! You see, I am such a parasite that I have worked hard, got 3 MAs, and got to travel the world over...yeah, man, what a "reddie" I am !

[AmbientMusic]

3MA's, yet still don't know proper punctuation and use onomatopoeia words like 'Er'. So it looks like you fled the Former Soviet Union. Why? Because another Marxist Dictator like Stalin may arise and murder 30 million more Russians? I thought all you REDS are 'Comrades' who think the Ends justify the Means! And where did you go? West! But We want no parts of the likes of you lurking with your insidious doctrine. Stay in Czech-Whatever today and fix your own house, shit for brains!

[babybunnyberry]

I still can not believe that this Thing can be ignorant or moronic enough to think my name is Slavic... or that anyone who doesn't agree with him is a communist. Somebody, please send this loser a dictionary. No, the word "Communist" doesn't mean "anyone who doesn't agree with me". A village did lose its idiot!

[AmbientMusic]

No Pinko. A Communist is a Collectivist! That is the ideology which you are espousing. If you despise the free market economy, you have therefore declared yourself to a card carrying member of the Socialist Party, (which you surreptitiously label Unions) bent on the destruction of Capitalism Worldwide. For the likes of you, there is no other goal!

[babybunnyberry]

PS: Clue. People DO emigrate, like you did from the guts of Hell. The fact that I live here doesn't mean I was born here. I know this amazing fact is too much for your tiny little brain, as is the fact that someone can live in other countries and learn different languages at will. PPS: "Er" is a "real word", and it's an interjection, not an onomatopoeia.

[AmbientMusic]

People also RUN away from Fascist Dictatorships and Oppressive State Regimes! Remember folks, the road to Hell is paved with 'good intentions'. The State produces NOTHING but debt and bureaucracy, as Ron Paul has shown us. The Collectivists know what is BEST for YOU, and you will soon need to see the 'Committee' to get permission to take a leak if folks like Czechie here get their way!

[babybunnyberry]

*Sighs* This punk will not clean his ears about the fact that I am not Czech, but what can you expect. He is ignorant enough not to even know what languages other people speak, or where other names come from. Oh, and is this how *HE* got his Communist Party card? WOW, He seems to know a lot about the procedures!!! And, of course, regardless of any ideological issues, it is HIM who knows what's best for everyone else, isn't it? That is not imposing his opinions, of course.

[AmbientMusic]

It sure is easy to travel the world over at the expense of those 'Bourgeoise' whose wealthy companies you've looted and plundered to no end. Then you simply re-package your filthy doctrine and sell it to the youth by using platitudes such as 'go green', and 'it's for the children', or 'save the earth, dolphins, whatever', etc. Redesigning Marxism for the 21'st century and world domination is your goal for a Red Dawn!

[lukensal]

If a person can look at an ad and understand its appeal, its message, and its subtext, she can reaffirm her own identity and reject the ad's influence. One of the best choices I have made is to quit television--what a difference :)!

[lukensal]

First off I love Kilbourne's work. We can work to change the environment of advertising on a local level (for instance limiting the size and number of billboards in a given area). However, I think that preventative focus should remain on the individual, because this is where we have more power than the advertisers. It is up to us to teach our children to observe their world with a critical eye.

[Kiefer89]

Yes, I've always said Marlboro Reds are the best:D:D:D

[sisterlibertine]

It's President Roslin from Battlestar Galactica.

[iloveallecchianime]

yeah im 20 dip and would rather drink than dip but cant....you see theres a reason you can first use tobacco when 18 its to get ya addicted then after 3 years get you to drink it wouldnt work the other way

[Vyszeamy]

haha.wonderwoman man. LOL

[freetoys]

In this video, she says "A recent study found that smoking occurred in feature films much more frequently than in real life."

Excuse me? What is that supposed to mean? I'd like to read that "study."

And are we blaming cigarette companies that they wind up in films? Not the directors/script writers?

I'm not defending smoking, necessarily. I'm just sick of faux facts and backwards reasoning.

[hydraulikz]

yeah im a nonsmoker myself but this is just as much rhetoric as the tobacco lobbyist. give real intelligeable facts, not vague statistics. if you want to prevent people from smoking dont use the same tactics as the lobbyist-- its just hypocritical. this thing will take people a step forward and two steps back without real info.

[AmbientMusic]

Who do you think is paying her salary? Drinkers and Smokers, that's who. Friggin Marxist Parasite. If alcohol and tobacco are eliminated, so is the need for this Nanny Racket!

[USFella]

To criticize ad companies does not make one a Marxist. To lecture on the dangers of smoking and drinking in ads does not make tobacco and alcohol companies the source of your income, and does not make you a parasite.

[AmbientMusic]

A private individual can say what they want, true. That is freedom of expression. When one is being funded by Robert Wood Johnson, et al, then it is way outside the box of constitutional. It is an extortion racket run by a Marxist 'Nanny State' run amok.

[babybunnyberry]

You are so ignorant. Keep talking about "freedom" that only means "freedom" for corporations to not inform consumers, and keep hurting people.

[AmbientMusic]

BBB, Interesting, like Big Brother. Anyway, if you do not believe in "Freedom", then you, by default must believe in de-facto FASCISM. Period. Man can not be both Bond and Free. You've chosen your side. I Mine. Thank you for reminding everyone what we're fighting for.

[babybunnyberry]

Yeah, right. And the world is black or white, isn't it? Because capitalism has been an absolute and unchallenged success all over the world, right? And the only other option is fascism? I guess you are one of those fighting against Unions and civil rights as they hurt "poor little corporations". I now wonder if you even have opposible thumbs.

[AmbientMusic]

Oh no, I am against Corporate Welfare as you see today. True Capitalism requires no State Intervention. You my dear fellow person, are a Neo-Marxist. Your religion is that of Statism, which you think is supposed to regulate human activities and consumption of free market products. That, by definition, is Fascism.

[babybunnyberry]

No, you ignorat slug. You *will* divide the world into "Pretty Corporation Paradise" and a dark (is it fascist or neo-marxist? How about Plutonian?)dungeon. Well, surprise! We *need* someone to put a limit to corporate rights. I *detest* Communism (and I have lived in 3 Communist countries). However, I *do* believe in Corporate responsibility. If that means one less brand of tobacco... all the better.

[babybunnyberry]

I insist, you are so ignorant. You must be one of those guys whose erection was affected by your puffing habits.

[AmbientMusic]

A SHILL for Big Pharma. Paxil Time!

[kindu2006]

this woman is very important, indeed!

[AmbientMusic]

Right kindu. Like WHO or WHAT gave her the Authority to be an Authority? She is NOBODY with no credentials known to us.

[kindu2006]

lol

[AmbientMusic]

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[Suzbekistan]

Jean Kilbourne rocks!

[jamstrat]

Go Jean!!!

[katwmn6]

puritanism? are you joking? clearly you have never been a young woman in american society.

[toolkien]

And what's with the maudlin piano? What are they trying to convince us of? Talk about subliminal strokes! Pot, thy too is black.

[AmbientMusic]

People are much smarter and more media savy than they used to be, even 5 years ago or when ever this piece of crap was made. Just like you noticed with the 'maudlin piano', clearly on the soundtrack for subliminal propaganda reasons. A brainwashing film made to program college students 'think for themselves'? Lol! We are past that point in our society's evolution. It takes more than 'maudlin subliminal piano' to make a case these days. Good call toolkien!

[babybunnyberry]

Yes, children are so media savvy that 230,000 of them start smoking every year in America alone, and EDs are on the rise. Wake up from you miserable dream.

[AmbientMusic]

Daily we must battle the Marxists Minions who have Infiltrated the Upper Echelons of Our Society!!! We are NOT a Satalite of the former USSR. We won. You lost. Better Dead than Red!

[babybunnyberry]

Er...I think you are a few decades late with that announcement. AND, there is nothing communist about this video. *YAWNS* You are the most boring WASP I have ever had the disgust of interacting with. Go play around in your little white hood, and much good may it do you. PS: I am done with you, subnormal. You are obviously not worth my mana.

[toolkien]

People are free to do as the please, peacefully, and live (or die) of the consequences. Let's be truthful shall we? This isn't about big, nasty business, it's about people doing things other people don't like.

Well, as long as you're not on the hook financially, one is disinterested in what another does. Perhaps we should have a video convincing people not to put others on the financial hook for what some people choose to do?

[CarolX2]

It's nice to see that people will grasp at straws to defend a business that makes it's money off of poisoning people.

[CarolX2]

It's nice to see that people will grasp at straws to defend a business that makes it's money off of poisoning people.

[SimonKinland]

You mean allowing people to poison themselves.

[BCVChannel1]

I have no argument against freedom of choice but I think you have to consider that advertising targets the vulnerable and the minors. I do not see their decision to allow themselves to be addicted as a result of choice more than deception and lack of guidance.

[toolkien]

It's nice to see Puritanism is alive and well.

People are free to do as the please, peacefully, and live (or die) of the consequences. Let's be truthful shall we? This isn't about big, nasty business, it's about people doing things other people don't like.

Well, as long as you're not on the hook financially, one is disinterested in what another does. Perhaps we should have a video convincing people not to put others on the financial hook for what some people choose to do?

[toolkien]

It's nice to see Puritanism alive and well in our society.

And the tone is quite irritating.

People are free to smoke, and a subset of those are free to cough up their lungs in little pieces.