1999 Archived
| Ad Agency
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Youth - Prevention, Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description A young man calls an advertising agency and asks a series of questions to an account executive. The young man asks the executive why cigarette ads target young people and why the brands most popular with youth are also the most heavily advertised.
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2001 Archived
| Bee Stings
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description A pair of chain-smoking public relations executives are interviewing physicians for their opinions about the health consequences of tobacco. As each physician describes a proven consequence, the executives dismiss each one. When the executives find a physician with a vague and misleading explanation of the health consequences of tobacco smoking, he is invited to testify for the tobacco industry in Washington.
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2001 Archived
| Big Joke
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description This spot features an advertising executive joking with his co-workers who are developing a tobacco product advertising campaign. All the while, he is speaking with the aid of an electronic voice box. When asked where he got the voice box, the executive gleefully replies that the previous user, presumably a deceased cancer patient, would not be using the device any longer.
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1999 Archived
| Big Joke
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Addiction, Health Consequences of Smoking
Description This stand-up comedy routine sarcastically describes a dying man's request for a cigarette. The narrator notes that although the tobacco industry tries to deny it, 434,000 people die from smoking-related lung cancer each year.
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1999 Archived
| Bigger Joke
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Youth - Prevention, Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description This stand-up comedy blames the tobacco industry for marketing to youth. The comedian notes that tobacco executives are specifically targeting the under-14 market to replace dying smokers.
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2002 Archived
| BMX Chase
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description A teen boy is riding a BMX bike through the busy city streets. As he rides, a limousine comes screeching up behind him. Soon this limo is followed by several others. He tries to escape, and an elaborate chase through the city streets ensues. In the end, he is hit by one of the limos and jumps up to escape, but is blocked by the circle of other limos.
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1999 Archived
| Bob
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Youth - Prevention, Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description Young women are sitting on a couch surrounding a speaker phone. They have reached a tobacco company account executive and put him on the spot with questions about his motives for directing tobacco advertisements toward youth. The frustrated executive eventually hangs up on the young women.
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2001 Archived
| Boy Bathroom
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Youth - Prevention, Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description This video, designed to appear to be a video game, features the hero, a young man who does not smoke, encountering peers in the school bathroom. These boys tease him and encourage him to smoke, and he must use his "weapons" to destroy them.
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2000 Archived
| Carrot
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Addiction, Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description A man emerges from his office building and begins to desperately beg passersby for a carrot. He becomes increasingly tense as he searches for a carrot without any luck. Finally, he finds a half-eaten carrot on the ground next to a trashcan and cleans it off before he eats it.
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2001 Archived
| Cinema
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Youth - Prevention, Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description This ad resembles a preview for an action-packed motion picture that appears to be about a major conspiracy. The video includes scenes from corporate offices, hospitals, a manufacturing plant, and congressional hearings, and concludes with one of the "actors" explaining that this is not a movie; it is the true story of the tobacco industry.
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2001 Archived
| Concert
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Description Blind concertgoers are dancing to music. A plane flies above the concert and drops eyeballs attached to parachutes into the crowd. The people place the eyeballs into their sockets, and as the plane leaves the area we see the words "Truth is knowledge, is power" on the screen.
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2000 Archived
| Congrats
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description Two young men attempt to get a tobacco advertising executive on the phone to sarcastically congratulate him on the success of his business.
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2001 Archived
| Conspiracy
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Youth - Prevention, Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description Resembling a preview for an action-packed motion picture, a conspiracy is being uncovered. The video includes scenes from corporate offices, hospitals, a manufacturing plant, and congressional hearings, and concludes with one of the "actors" explaining that this is not a movie; it is the true story of the tobacco industry.
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2001 Archived
| Convenience Store
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Youth - Prevention, Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description The hero of the "video action game" encounters and resolves a variety of dangerous situations at a local convenience store. He puts out the cigarette of a man who is pumping gas and prevents the store clerk from selling cigarettes to minors.
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2001 Archived
| Cowboys
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Youth - Prevention, Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description Two young adult men drive their van up to the security window of the Philip Morris corporate offices. When they ask the guard if they can see the Marlboro Man they are told he is dead and sent on their way.
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2001 Archived
| Critics Say
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Youth - Prevention, Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description This ad resembles a preview for an action-packed motion picture that appears to be about a major conspiracy. The video includes scenes from corporate offices, hospitals, a manufacturing plant, and congressional hearings, and concludes with one of the "actors" explaining that this is not a movie; it is the true story of the tobacco industry.
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2002 Archived
| Critics Say Madrid
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description Resembling a preview for an action-packed motion picture, a major consipiracy is revealed. The video includes scenes from corporate offices, hospitals, a manufacturing plant, and congressional hearings, and concludes with one of the "actors" explaining that this is not a movie; it is the true story of the tobacco industry.
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2002 Archived
| Dance
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Secondhand Smoke - General
Description Reminiscent of 1950's educational films, an outline of a person with the text, "your body here" written on its chest is dancing at a party. The outline figure comes in contact with secondhand smoke and jumps away in fear. However, this angers the other dancers that the figure bumps into. The announcer describes how it is better to simply walk away from cigarette smoke.
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1999 Archived
| Daughter
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description A laugh track plays in the background of actual footage of congressional hearings concerning the tobacco industry. This addition makes the testimony appear comical and embarrassing.
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2002 Archived
| Dead Rat
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Secondhand Smoke - General
Description As lab technicians remove a dead rat from one of the cages in the tobacco company testing lab, they discuss how secondhand smoke kills nonsmokers. One of the rats (Louise) caged with a rat who is being tested overhears their conversation and realizes that she can die from the other rats' smoke.
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2001 Archived
| Deaths Planned
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Youth - Prevention, Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description This ad resembles a preview for an action-packed motion picture that appears to be about a major conspiracy. The video includes scenes from corporate offices, hospitals, a manufacturing plant, and congressional hearings, and concludes with one of the "actors" explaining that this is not a movie; it is the true story of the tobacco industry.
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2002 Archived
| Deaths Planned Madrid
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description Resembling a preview for an action-packed motion picture, a major conspiracy is exposed. The video includes scenes from corporate offices, hospitals, a manufacturing plant, and congressional hearings, and concludes with one of the "actors" explaining that this is not a movie; it is the true story of the tobacco industry.
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2000 Archived
| Demands
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description This is a simulation of a satellite feed from a live hostage situation. The spokeswoman is wearing a hood over her face to protect her identity as she lists her generation’s demands from the tobacco industry.
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1999 Archived
| Demon Awards
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description A gala Hollywood awards ceremony is honoring the winners of a dubious prize. The presenter announces the nominees for the most deaths in a single year, and "tobacco" receives the award for the ninth year in a row.
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2001 Archived
| Director
Target Audiences None, Adults, Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Florida Tobacco Control Program
Themes Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description Two young men are attempting to call a movie director to convince him not to have the characters in his film smoke. When one of the callers is unable to speak with the director personally, he leaves a detailed message with the secretary.
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