
2001 Archived
| A Great Imagination
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Themes Youth - Prevention, Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description A young man is holding an electronic counter that is flashing a series of numbers. The text reads: "It takes a great imagination to create cigarette advertising. Like pretending it has nothing to do with over 1,200 deaths a day."
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2001 Archived
| Bodega
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Description A group of Hispanic teens walks into a neighborhood convenience store. They confront the clerk and question him as to why the tobacco advertisements are at a young child’s eye level. The clerk appears to be genuinely surprised about this phenomenon.
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2000 Archived
| Body Bags
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Themes Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description A group of people are unloading body bags onto the street in New York City. They are addressing executives in an office building outside a major tobacco company. As the leader of the group addresses the executives inside the building with a megaphone, the demonstrators continue to pile the bags on the street.
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2000 Archived
| Convenience Store Comparison
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Languages English, Spanish
Description A group of Hispanic teens is driving through a low-income section of town counting the number of tobacco advertisements. When they enter the higher-income area of town they note that there are very few tobacco advertisements and wonder if tobacco companies are targeting minorities.
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1999 Archived
| Convince
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Description This Legacy “Truth” campaign ad shows a Hispanic boy holding a ticking counter while standing in front of an industrial fan in a warehouse. SUPER: It convinces three friends to smoke and one will die.
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2001 Archived
| Customer
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Description A Hispanic teen is standing in front of a bank of school lockers holding an electronic counter. The super indicates that Every eight seconds, the tobacco industry loses a customer to death.
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2001 Archived
| Dog Walker
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Themes Youth - Prevention, Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description Truth representatives are walking dogs down a city street. As each dog poops on the sidewalk, another Truth representative inserts a flag into the pile. This happens three times. People walk by and look in disgust. The spot cuts to a flag with the text: "Ammonia is found in dog poop. Tobacco companies add it to cigarettes."
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1999 Archived
| Don’t Smoke
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Themes Youth - Prevention, Secondhand Smoke - General
Description A young woman is holding an electronic counter with a series of changing numbers. The text reads: "Every year cigarette smoke kills over 53,000 people who don’t even smoke."
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2001 Archived
| El Tobacco
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Description A Hispanic adolescent male stands with an electronic counter beside the train tracks. Smoking is compared to a mythical creature from the Latino culture that devoures anything that gets in its way
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2001 Archived
| H-Bomm
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Themes Youth - Prevention, Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description A slam dunk contest is underway with three contestants who have chosen to wear a shoe supposedly filled with hydrogen. As the third contestant lands, his foot and entire body burst into flame. The text then reads that the only product that actually kills one third of those who use it is tobacco.
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2002 Archived
| Hot Dog
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Description Hispanic youth from the TRUTH campaign are offering teens hotdogs from a street cart. They ask the customers if they would like their hotdogs soaked in ammonia, a notion that seems repulsive. The TRUTH representatives explain that cigarettes contain ammonia, so having hotdogs soaked in that poison should not seem so surprising. The customers are no longer interested in the hotdogs.
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2000 Archived
| Kid’s Eye View
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Languages English, Spanish
Themes Youth - Prevention, Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description In this video teenaged boys place a hidden camera on what appears to be a four- or five-year-old boy named Paco. As Paco walks through the convenience store the teens are shocked to see that cigarette advertisements are placed at the young child’s eye level.
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2000 Archived
| Minty Fresh
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Themes Tobacco Industry Manipulation, Tobacco Products - Menthol
Description A young, African American man is holding an electronic counter with a series of flashing numbers. The text reads: Every year menthol cigarettes leave over 33,000 minty fresh African American corpses.
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2018 Archived
| Nametags
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Themes Youth - Prevention, Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description A young woman is making nametags for adolescents and young adults, with names such as “Sales Spike” and “Potential Customer.” The announcer explains that this is the way that tobacco companies view US youth. The final nametag written is “Your Worst Nightmare.”
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2000 Archived
| Nightclub
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Themes Youth - Prevention, Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description Two young African American men enter a nightclub with a body bag. As they reach the other side of the dance floor, an attractive woman makes “eye-contact” with the body bag and begins to dance with it. A mummy-like creature appears holding a sign that reads: “What if cigarette ads told the truth?”
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2000 Archived
| Operation Hypnosis
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Themes Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description A group of anti-tobacco activists drives through “tobacco suburbia” using night vision to film the homes of tobacco executives. During the drive, they play a recorded message to the executives in order to taunt them about the nature of their source of income.
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2000 Archived
| Parachute
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Themes Youth - Prevention, Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description A group of young men, in a small airplane, dispatches parachutes. As a crowd watches from the ground, the young men hurl the many body bags attached to the parachutes from the plane.
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2000 Archived
| Peer Pressure
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Description Two young adult African American men are holding an electronic counter that flashes a series of numbers. The on-screen text reads. “Tobacco advertising. It’s like peer pressure with a $15,000,000 a day budget.”
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2018 Archived
| Poisons ALF
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Themes Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description A young adult man is holding an electronic counter with a series of numbers. The text reads: Cigarettes. Contains 101 poisons. That’s a hundred more than rat poison.
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2000 Archived
| Porta Potty
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Languages English, Spanish
Themes Youth - Prevention, Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description Three Hispanic teens replace the toilet paper in public porta-potties with cigarette ads that they have torn out of magazines. They even approach two men and ask them to use the ads instead of the toilet paper.
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2001 Archived
| Raspa ALF
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Themes Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description A group of Hispanic young adults are selling snow cones in the park. One of the flavors available on the snow cone cart is ammonia. Their patrons are horrified at the thought of having ammonia added to their icy treat. The vendors explain that ammonia is found in cigarettes.
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2001 Archived
| Ridazit
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Themes Youth - Prevention, Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description Three teenage girls in a bathroom are discussing the embarrassment of pimples. One of the girls suggests they try a new product made of all-natural ingredients. Two seem to like the product while the other complains of intense burning. She eventually bursts into flame. The text reads that the only product that actually kills one in three people who use it is tobacco.
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2001 Archived
| Rip It Out
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Themes Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description In this Legacy Truth campaign radio ad a group of seven teens are heard ripping cigarette ads out of magazines an give reasons for their action—a young man says “for the seven people who will die from your product before this commercial is over”; a female says “This is for hooking my little brother;” another young man says “This is for the 430,000 people who die from smoking each year.” – the ad ends with a warning to “Only rip out ads from magazines that are yours.”
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2018 Archived
| Rip-it-out
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Themes Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description A young man is reading magazines and ripping out cigarette advertisements. In the background the voice of a tobacco executive is speaking about cigarette market trends. The announcer encourages you to silence the tobacco industry by ripping out every tobacco ad they see.
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2001 Archived
| Roadside Memorial
Target Audiences Adults, African Americans, Females and Pregnant Women, Hispanics, Youths and Young Adults
Themes Tobacco Industry Manipulation
Description A roadside memorial with a white wooden cross and flowers stands near a busy intersection. As people walk by in groups, they notice the sign. Finally, a boy reads the sign, which indicates that every day tobacco kills 1,070 more people than auto accidents.
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