Comments on: Do We See the Slow Bullet? http://www.marksdailyapple.com/do-we-see-the-slow-bullet/ Serving up health and fitness insights (daily, of course) with a side of irreverence. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:53:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: LabRat http://www.marksdailyapple.com/do-we-see-the-slow-bullet/#comment-14365 LabRat Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:49:19 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/do-we-see-the-slow-bullet/#comment-14365 For starters, we have to treat smokers like adults, which the majority of them are. Unless they're exercising a lot of willful ignorance and denial, they KNOW the risks and choose to do it anyway out of a combination of it being a big simple pleasure in their life and that bad risk assessment/perception thing. The sheer contempt in so many anti-smoking ads doesn't sway them, it makes them want to light up another one just for the "F you too" of it all. It makes anti-smokers feel righteous, but it doesn't do a thing to sway smokers. Lots of people care more for their loved ones than they do for themselves- I know I'm one of that number. Almost all the ex-smokers I know finally mustered the will to quit because they didn't want to put their families through the eventual consequences. So, yes, talk about the health risks, but don't take the "smokers have been deluded by the tobacco companies and every one of them is going to explode when they turn fifty" line, which implies they are very stupid, emphasize the impact of those problems on loved ones. For starters, we have to treat smokers like adults, which the majority of them are. Unless they’re exercising a lot of willful ignorance and denial, they KNOW the risks and choose to do it anyway out of a combination of it being a big simple pleasure in their life and that bad risk assessment/perception thing.

The sheer contempt in so many anti-smoking ads doesn’t sway them, it makes them want to light up another one just for the “F you too” of it all. It makes anti-smokers feel righteous, but it doesn’t do a thing to sway smokers.

Lots of people care more for their loved ones than they do for themselves- I know I’m one of that number. Almost all the ex-smokers I know finally mustered the will to quit because they didn’t want to put their families through the eventual consequences. So, yes, talk about the health risks, but don’t take the “smokers have been deluded by the tobacco companies and every one of them is going to explode when they turn fifty” line, which implies they are very stupid, emphasize the impact of those problems on loved ones.

]]> By: Bill http://www.marksdailyapple.com/do-we-see-the-slow-bullet/#comment-14335 Bill Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:54:16 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/do-we-see-the-slow-bullet/#comment-14335 Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. That's right up there with the first time I saw the Australian anti-smoking ad campaign. In 10' tall pictures in the airport, side-by-side images of a healthy lung and a smoker's lung. We American's are too namby pamby about such things. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

That’s right up there with the first time I saw the Australian anti-smoking ad campaign. In 10′ tall pictures in the airport, side-by-side images of a healthy lung and a smoker’s lung.

We American’s are too namby pamby about such things.

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