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Is this latest Gov.advert campaign a step too far?
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Parents who smoke do risk the health of their children. So it seems legitimate to use children's health as a relevant issue.
As for the rest of your question, you've noted the colour of the family, then introduced gun crime as a wholly hypothetical issue since the campaign is about smoking, and then you hope people won't see you as racist.
As for the rest of your question, you've noted the colour of the family, then introduced gun crime as a wholly hypothetical issue since the campaign is about smoking, and then you hope people won't see you as racist.
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I knew it, I knew it, in fact it was you who I knew would take little heed of my explanations, in your narrow minded quest to try and score points.
Parents who smoke do risk the health of their children. So it seems legitimate to use children's health as a relevant issue.
As I said I did not wish this to be turned into an anti-smoking debate. But seeing that you are rather slow on the uptake, this campaign has nothing to do with their risk to children's health, it is an appeal from the child to get their parent to quit because they don't want them to die.
Regarding the racist issue, since it is a known fact that gang and gun crime is a particular problem among the black communities and since they chose to use a black family for this advert, I thought I would turn it on it's head, and suggest that the money spent on this latest anti-smoking campaign, would have be better spent on trying to reduce gang and gun crime.
Anyone who thinks this is being racist is a bigger fool than it is possible to imagine.
I knew it, I knew it, in fact it was you who I knew would take little heed of my explanations, in your narrow minded quest to try and score points.
Parents who smoke do risk the health of their children. So it seems legitimate to use children's health as a relevant issue.
As I said I did not wish this to be turned into an anti-smoking debate. But seeing that you are rather slow on the uptake, this campaign has nothing to do with their risk to children's health, it is an appeal from the child to get their parent to quit because they don't want them to die.
Regarding the racist issue, since it is a known fact that gang and gun crime is a particular problem among the black communities and since they chose to use a black family for this advert, I thought I would turn it on it's head, and suggest that the money spent on this latest anti-smoking campaign, would have be better spent on trying to reduce gang and gun crime.
Anyone who thinks this is being racist is a bigger fool than it is possible to imagine.
thank you for the personal insults, always a sure sign of a winning argument. But I think you will find that the budgets for fighting crime and the budgets for fighting smoking come from different departments (Home Office and Health, probably) and therefore are not simply interchangeable.
Thoughtful of you to remind me of the limits of your imagination, but not necessary, I assure you.
Thoughtful of you to remind me of the limits of your imagination, but not necessary, I assure you.
smoking (or not) has been debated many times as you say. And in those debates it is often argued that vehicle exhaust gases do more harm overall than smoking could ever achieve.
So it could equally be argued that the money would have been better spent getting children to persuade their parents not to drive their Chelsea Tractors so much?
So it could equally be argued that the money would have been better spent getting children to persuade their parents not to drive their Chelsea Tractors so much?
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I don't think the government is going too far, but I don't think the campaign will work either, me and my brothers asked my parents to stop smoking for years and years and it never worked. My dad has stopped now but it was really up to him to make that decision, he wouldn't have stopped if he hadn't wanted to. The other thing that struck me in the news article was that it mentions children are saying they would never smoke, many children say that when the're young but it doesn't mean they're going to stick to that statement when they're older.
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