Suddenly I understand why "The Anti-drug" ads, and the TV anti-smoking campaigns, talk such utter bollocks. For the anti-smoking ones, it's explained by the fact that Phillip Morris are the people responsible for the ads. They are forced to make anti-smoking ads. What better way to increase sales of your product than by instructing parents to repeatedly tell their kids not to? What better way is there to ensure that teenagers will do something? Perhaps demanding it at gunpoint, or somehow causing peer pressure, but easier by far to fool stupid parents.
As for the anti-drug... It's surely conspiracy theory time! Bla bla, the drug trade supports the government, bla bla, thus making really awful anti-drug ads to encourage drug-taking will favour the government who are, of course, the people responsible for making those ads. Marvellous. Alternatively, if you'd rather avoid insane conspiracies, perhaps the governmental folk modelled their ads on the anti-smoking campaigns that are around at the time. After all, if a big commercial company advertises that way, it must be a good way, right?
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