JapanNewbie.com: Smoke

August 07, 2004

Smoke

[Update: 8/9/2004 More posters below]

Tokyo has these kick butt adds going around to encourage people to stop smoking.

The organization that does the ads is... http://www.jti.co.jp

Here they are... ads...

I haven't had a chance to check the site yet, but I imagine that they have high quality copies for there ads on there. They're really funny. Doncha think?

And if you haven't heard the rumors, people smoke A LOT. In Japan. Stinky.

-Harvey

Posted by Harvey at August 07, 2004 12:17 PM

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Awesome, post more if you get them Harvey.

Posted by: zmcnulty on August 7, 2004 02:01 PM

Found more actually. Will try to put them up tomorrow morning.

Posted by: Harvey on August 8, 2004 02:55 AM

Ya i seen a lot of pictures with people mostly young people smoking. What's up with that? Is it the in thing in japan

Posted by: Raul Velazquez on August 10, 2004 03:56 AM

lol!!! that is so coool! I wish they would bring ads like these out in Australia. We have these ones for being an organ donor at the moment which are pretty confronting. But these are just funny! nice work

Posted by: jieshi on August 10, 2004 10:32 AM

Isn't JT the only tabacco company in Japan?

Posted by: Fred Lo on August 12, 2004 01:41 AM

This stuff is great. Simple, but grabs attention. Maybe I should print them out and post them randomly around Chicago.

Posted by: Lynn on August 13, 2004 01:40 AM

why is so much written in engliah?
have i been wasting my time all these months learning japanese for my future trip there?

Posted by: jason lujan on August 13, 2004 04:06 AM

Actually the ads are to encourage people to be 'responsible' smokers not to stop smoking. Japan Tobacco is of course still interested in selling their cigarettes. They are just getting on the CSR (Corporate Social Responbility) bandwagon. Personally I think they are hilarious! But, I hope they work because I for one am sick of constanly being enveloped in a cloud of smoke whereever I am.

Well done, I think you've collected them all;-)

Posted by: keruko on August 13, 2004 10:39 AM

Japan Tobacco is of course still interested in selling their cigarettes. They are just getting on the CSR (Corporate Social Responbility) bandwagon. Personally I think they are hilarious! But, I hope they work because I for one am sick of constanly being enveloped in a cloud of smoke whereever I am.

Posted by: Alvin on January 17, 2005 04:02 PM

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