smoking ads good or bad

Ads in Magazines, Good Selling Points or Brainwashing

Advertising in general is a scam. Do not get me wrong, it is a key in any business to succeed but they blandly target young kids, play the sex card, or make it seem like the cool thing to do. Some ads are alright. I don’t mind the ads in news papers or in journals. The ones that make you think twice are the cigarette ads. I hate those. They show people what is cool and what is not. It was worse a few years ago when they had a cartoon camel pitching ciggs to kids. That’s the system we live in.
The ad in question is a Camel ad in the June 2003 issue of Maxim men magazine. It is a classy enough ads but I don’t like the way the guy looks. He looks like Humphrey Bogart with a Camel hang...