Random: Anti-Smoking Campaign Is Part Animal Crossing, Part Creature Horror

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I just feel sad now ):

This is probably the first anti-smoking campaign that didn't make me cringe, I'll give 'em that. I guess this is fair use, but I doubt Nintendo is gonna be too happy about this clearly ripping off Animal Crossing. I'm sure the comments won't get toxic (no pun indended) as people argue over the ethics of cigarettes in media.

@Snatcher Anything that brain of yours can think of can be found.

Animal Crossing needs to produce an ad so people can hear the other side. Have an ad of the villager smoking and wearing a leather jacket looking cool with their friends.

Ouch... This is such blatant plagiarism, I'm certain the Nintendo lawyer club will have a fun time taking this ad down and suing for millions of dollars.

This just encourages me to continue smoking.

@Pillowpants There's fair use.

Can someone tell me what the monster was supposed to be? It looked like a one-shot boss. If it is supposed to be smoke or a cigarette monster, they did not need that. Anyways it was a good anti-smoking message.

@victordamazio We're talking about the Big N here...

That made me want to smoke.

Don't see much reason to use the Animal Crossing style visuals other than tapping into something popular to get more people talking about the PSA but at least it's a generally okay PSA and not one of those awful "Truth" ads.

@jump

While drinking Old Style, working on his late-70s Trans Am and listening to Whitesnake Here I Go Again.

I'm not sure what's the point the people going "this makes me want to smoke/continue smoking" are trying to make. You find the ad so stupid that you'll do something hazardous to your health just to spite it?
And if it's "just a joke", it's not really funny.

Cigarettes and vapes in a game like Animal Crossing isn't something I needed to think about today, but here I am.

Was trying really hard not to leave a serious comment here but I guess I failed.

Smokers know that it's dumb. They know that it's bad and that they should stop and if they don't it will very likely kill them, they joke about it because they are mocking themselves, because they probably think it's pathetic and wish they never started to begin with, that way they'd be healthier, have more money and not be a slave to a drug that is more addictive than heroin but far more easy to access.

It's not as easy to quit as everyone makes it out to be, and getting lectured by non-smokers has no effect whatsoever, because they can't even begin to understand what it's like, they just judge and mock something that they can't conprehend because they were lucky enough not to be exposed to it and pick it up as a habit themselves.

They get looked down upon by non-smokers like the 'natural selection' comment on this very thread like they are somehow lesser people because of a habit which is very likely to have stemmed from insecurity or mental health issues which is now being used as a crutch to get up in the morning or get through the day, it makes it nigh impossible to get out of, and even if you do, part of you will always think about it and secretly miss it. If it wasn't harmful, expensive, and smell like ass everyone would do it, it would be no different to coffee. There are so many teens that vape when they never smoked before because it is 'less bad'

No ad campaign will make a single bit of difference, the smoker needs to 100% want to quit themselves and that will needs to be stronger than the addiction itself.

Don't get me wrong though. People that smoke around non smokers are the lowest of the low, I don't know how anyone could be so selfish, I think people that just light up anywhere are very inconsiderate. The fact that it was legal to do it in restaurants not that long ago baffles my goddamn mind. Everyone has a right to clean air, and there's a special place in hell for people that do it inside around their non-smoking family members/friends. And it you want children you need to pick between the habit and the child I think, or at the very least do it discreetly and the heck away from them to not influence or harm them, and don't get me started when it comes doing it during pregnancy, just no.

But that's just my two cents.

Edit: Even if it's just emulating the style, this sort of thing should be as far as way from something wholesome like Animal Crossing as humanely possible, it was never made to push any sort of propaganda be it positive or negative and I'm surprised how many companies actually used it for advertisements when it was released. It's just in really poor taste imo and just because it's a 'popular' thing right now and it's a sort of culture shock with how much it juxtaposes the source material.

I've neve smoked, but smokers are more fun to hang around than self righteous anti-smokers.

@Nanami_Ataraxia Thank you for posting this. I'm not a smoker myself, but have seen my share of people trying to quit and its an intense process that no individual should have to go through. It's very disrespectful and ignorant to lump all of them into a negative stereotype when there are many ways and reasons to get wrapped in this addiction.

Back to the ad itself. I absolutely hate it and there is no way Nintendo isn't seeking to have it taken down as I typed this.

Everything with moderation.

@MergonTheShade it’s certainly a typo. They had one train of thought for the sentence (unlikely), interrupted it with a related remark, and finished the sentence with a reworded train of thought (thought they earlier said “likely” instead of “unlikely”).

@Zuljaras don’t know if you’re in America, but coincidentally my wife, who works in the medical field, talked to me today about a patient who had to receive treatment because of his excessive smoking, was told that he’d be back if he didn’t stop smoking and he said “I won’t stop smoking. Medicaid pays for all this so…” So people’s self-destructive habits can have a negative impact on tax dollars.

I’m not saying Medicaid shouldn’t be available, it should, but I think it’s good to know that our actions have more unintentional consequences than we may like to think.

"It's highly unlikely, however, that despite Nintendo's fierce protection of its IP, the company will not take any action against the ad given the lack of any specific identification or branding."
The grammar in this line is not correct. While the line is supposed to mean "It's unlikely that Nintendo will take any action,"
The actual meaning of this sentence is "It's unlikely that Nintendo will not take any action" which means it's likely they will.
Stay smart homies much 💗

@MTMike87
You are most welcome.
I felt a little bit of keyboard warrior come out of me then but the things some were saying, I couldn't just watch. It's very mature of you to have those views even when you haven't been through it yourself it's a good quality and one that is clearly lacking in most people.

I agree. I would say it's borderline torture, but no you can just quit because some ad told you to and it clearly means you must hate yourself and don't appreciate your life if you willingly damage yourself like that.

I would hazard to guess that a lot of people self-medicate with Smoking, drugs or alcohol because the mental health system hasn't worked for them, it isn't a one size fits all deal and I doubt it ever will be.

Welp the small minded-ness of people never ceases to amaze me.

Thing is there are some very inconsiderate people which I happily called out that partake in it and that just adds fuel to the fire and almost validates the negative stigmas surrounding it when the world is heavily skewed to the anti-smoking side as is (with good reason) but like any discrimination it stems from a small minority of idiotic people. Most smokers especially this day and age stay the heck away from people whilst doing it because the health concerns are far more well known.

Yeah I don't like it either. Awareness is good and there definitely should be ads like this, but keep it away from family-friendly media.

If you support people quietly hurting their own quality of life so much that anti-smoking ads offend you, than maybe you should reconsider your priorities. Smoking should be considered taboo for the same reason that suicide, drug usage, and robbery are because all of them hurt the quality of both your life and the lives of others. It just happens to be legal. The fact that people put time and effort into appealing to something that teens and others are familiar with in order to oppose a serious threat should only be a good thing, and I do not understand why anyone would be against it.

@Snatcher

I appreciate your reference

They'd probably love to have this taken down by Nintendo. No better way to get it seen