Creative Anti-Smoking Advertisements

Over the last couple of years smoking has drifted from having the ultimate cool factor to being probably one of the fastest frowned upon habits in the world. Anti-smoking ads have gotten increasingly graphic and some times even gruesome. But always, I find, very creative and often inspiring from a design perspective.  

The lengths to which people have gone when advertising the adverse effects of smoking has even resulted in this TV ad which mimicks computer games. The ads are aimed at children, but im not convinced it will work, I mean anything can happen in a computer game right?

Now being a firm believer in the idea of there always being two sides to a story I have to let you know about Forest Online - who argue that smokers have a right to choose to smoke and are being demonized for their choices. Although the pro -smoking movement has not inspired much creative design yet I did stumble across a photographic journal called "Ninety Smokers" by Don Donavon. The journal basically documents England's smoking culture pre and leading up to the smoking ban.

Don Donnovan - Ninety Smokers

"This collection of work isn’t about either promoting or vilifying the act of smoking; it’s intended to capture an honest representation of smoking culture in Britain pre-July 2007.The act of smoking has been increasingly demonised over the last number of years and these portraits take in individuals from all over England, from every walk of life, who were prepared to make a visual statement of their objection to being represented in this negative way." - Dan Donovan

UPDATE Onelargeprawn kindly directed me to this amazingly funny anti-smoking ad - it's easily the funniset and most unexpected anti-smoking ad iv seen. Thanks again Prawn1!