John Clarke appears in a TV commercial from Cancer Council Victoria. He plays a Big Tobacco executive who shows his true colours after claiming to care about the health of Australians.
2 years since I quit that horrible shit. I used to buy cheap smokes and put them in a Peter Stuyvesant pack. I know it sounds pretty pathetic but how many of us wear Levi jeans just for the label when Target jeans would be just as good? Marketing plays a HUGE role in selling this poisonous shit and big tobacco knows it. I am 100% behind plain packaging legislation!!!
I remember a lot of people not getting this ad when it aired. I think he had to do another shoot explaining that he wasn't really a tobacco exec.
TheFaceEmperor 3 weeks ago
@Hobby331 yeah I think it will come down to that too....
forbzy1590 1 month ago
Same packaging and public restrictions will apply to alcohol as well
Hobby331 3 months ago
his laugh at the end sort of scared me...
jessicats13 4 months ago
@roguequokka And the proof that it will work is how much the Tobacco companies are spending on advertising against this legislation.
Would you have started smoking in the first place if today's advertising restrictions and plain packagng were in force back then?
smalltime0 8 months ago
2 years since I quit that horrible shit. I used to buy cheap smokes and put them in a Peter Stuyvesant pack. I know it sounds pretty pathetic but how many of us wear Levi jeans just for the label when Target jeans would be just as good? Marketing plays a HUGE role in selling this poisonous shit and big tobacco knows it. I am 100% behind plain packaging legislation!!!
roguequokka 8 months ago
i love John Clarke, he plays the exec well, but disagree with cancer council intentions
muzman52 8 months ago
@DetFreat I can't believe you just argued that point. Let me guess you're a smoker
LilSkitz93 9 months ago
@whatmeworrymelbourne Yeah, but we've been claiming Kiwis as our own for years. Sam Neill, Crowded House, Russell Crowe, John Clarke.
dw29392 9 months ago
@dw29392
I think John Clarke is a Kiwi.
whatmeworrymelbourne 9 months ago