by doing a story on this commercial.





Way to pick a kid that is the same age and resembles mine too. That was just awesome.
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JustErin said:

shit glad i don't smoke !

endymion said:

Ya me too, but I think this commercial goes way passed that and speaks loudly about doing anything that risks taking you away from your children.

Ugh. I feel ill.

JustErin said:

Yeah having kids does kind of make you paranoid i don't even like flying on my own now i feel like the plane will crash and i am gonna leave my kids alone in this bad sad world

thanks for the reminder Justerin

endymion said:

Why have it just ruin my day? Thought I'd ruin all yours too.

Seriously though, it's a powerful commercial, but it's just awful that they obviously really upset that little guy to get their realism.

I've seen that look on my kids faces before for just losing me for an instant in a store...and I have honestly lost sleep over the wrenching it did to my heart and stomach....my boys looked a lot like that too at that age..they are 13 and 9 now....still



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Very manipulative commercial.

that poor kid!

coolcat said:

Because it's true?

That commercial made me cry too! :cry2: Poor kid.

This is a good commercial! People who smoke who have young children don't think that far ahead.

It made me sad..and glad I don't smoke.

Ugh. Thanks for ruining my day, Erin.

CarrieLee said:

You should have seen the reaction from the people I sent it to at my office. They all hate me now.

I was talking to my mom this morning on the phone about something else and asked her if she saw it on Today today. She immediately started to cry. That meant 'yes'.

Shit like this doesn't move me at all, it makes me more angry cause the manipulative nature.

Now I'll go smoke.

lazycrockett said:

Seeing a child repsond like that doesn't move you, regardless of it's manipulative nature?

JustErin said:

If you want to show the horrors of smoking state the facts, show pictures of lung cancer etc, don't try and tug at my heartstrings with a sad little pouty face child crying cause he "lost" his mother. I don't like to be manipulated. Plain n Simple.
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lazycrockett said:

Sorry, but that's reality when a child loses a parent. I'd imagine that many who are not parents might not care, but I'll tell you right now that most parents that smoke (and many that don't) are impacted in a huge way thinking of their child in that position. I don’t see that as manipulation at all.

And the horrors of smoking have been shown many, many times and it’s not making an impact. Taking away the personal consequences and placing those consequences on someone else usually makes more of an impact on people.

I like the message, I just hate that they used a child in this way to convey it this strongly.

MoniGram said:

i agree it's a good commercial! i've never smoked in my life, and don't ever plan on it!

I've never smoked a day in my life...
But death comes in so many other ways, my biggest fear in life is to die before all of my kids are adults.

PaisleyPark5083 said:

That's why I'm not buying into it. A parent can die at any moment.

PaisleyPark5083 said:

Yes, exactly. I don't smoke either but it still really, really, hit me hard to think of ever being taken away from my little man.

JustErin said:

Little man

I still call my son my little man, and he is 25, god love him.

Smoking
Drinking
Drugs

Auto accidents
Sudden heart attack
Dying in ones sleep

self induced or natural - people die - parents die

a commercial isn't going to make me think about those kinds of things more then I naturally have

using a child in that manner to get that point across is simply wrong

just my 3.2 cents on it all

Mach said:

See, I think about these things all the time, probably a little too much. Seeing it visualized, especially with a little boy that looks so much like mine, was very tough to see and drove those worries home x a million.

JustErin said:

I don't worry about dying , I know I will
I DO take action and make better choices now that I have children then before
I had them

If I die I know I have done all I could ( will - money - support ) for my kids and that I tried to live as healthy as I can and have spent as much time with them as possible.

I really don't "worry" - when a thought comes in I look at it and make sure I have covered to the best of my abilities, what I could do - then I move forward