celtic-pyro:

femmeyoshiko:

hope u dont mind me keeping ur tags because ur right:

You know, I remember once seeing a post pointing out that anti-smoking campaigns were often run by cigarette companies and that they purposely use things like flashing lights to stress the viewer and also make their ads all about shaming people who already smoke by calling them gross and icky, so those who already smoke feel insulted and defensive (and thus less receptive to quitting). That anti-drug ads are rarely about encouraging people to quit but more often scare campaigns against becoming a gross addict or some kind of deformed freak (see: the Idaho Meth Project). The only people it’s going to reach are people who weren’t thinking of trying drugs in the first place, not people with dependency who might even WANT to recover.

I think about that sometimes. How much these ads are purposely targeted against recovery.