Anti-smoking ads

No Tobacco Ads Anymore?

Armen Hareyan — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:06:44 -0500

The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging governments to ban all tobacco advertising. The aim is to protect the world's youth from becoming addicted to a product WHO says could cause one billion premature deaths this century. The U.N. organization issued the call on World No Tobacco Day. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from WHO headquarters in Geneva.

Exposure to smoking cessation product ads helps smokers quit

harminka — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:20:53 -0500

The more magazine ads smokers see for the nicotine patch and other quit-smoking aids, the more likely they are to try to quit smoking and be successful - even without buying the products, finds a new Cornell study.

Why anti-smoking ads backfire or succeed

harminka — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:47:09 -0500

Some anti-smoking ads are simply ineffective, while others actually make youth more likely to light up. Fortunately, some are successful, and a new University of Georgia study helps explain why.

Tobacco industry efforts to derail effective anti-smoking campaigns

harminka — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:12:59 -0500

Anti-smoking ads that reveal the tobacco industry’s deceptive practices have been aggressively quashed through various methods found Temple University Assistant Professor Jennifer K. Ibrahim, co-author of an analysis in the August issue of the American Journal of Public Health.