Anti Smoking Adverts and Posters: 2011

Effects of Smoking - Scary Smoking Facts

Here we've complied a comprehensive list of the effects of smoking on the human body and it doesn't make pleasant reading for the 1.35 billion smokers in the world. In a nut shell, smoking:

harms nearly every organ of the body
causes many diseases
reduces the health of smokers in general

Smoking and Death

The adverse health effects from cigarette smoking account for an estimated 443,000 deaths, or nearly one of every five deaths, each year in the United States.
More deaths are caused each year by tobacco use than by all deaths from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined.
Smoking causes an estimated 90% of all lung cancer deaths in men and 80% of all lung cancer deaths in women.
An estimated 90% of all deaths from chronic obstructive lung disease are caused by smoking.

Smoking and Increased Health Risks
Compared with nonsmokers, smoking is estimated to increase the risk of the following:

coronary heart disease by 2 to 4 times
stroke by 2 to 4 times
men developing lung cancer by 23 times
women developing lung cancer by 13 times
dying from chronic obstructive lung diseases (such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema) by 12 to 13 times.

Smoking and Cardiovascular Disease

Smoking causes coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death in the US.
Cigarette smoking causes reduced circulation by narrowing the blood vessels (arteries) and puts smokers at risk of developing peripheral vascular disease (i.e., obstruction of the large arteries in the arms and legs that can cause a range of problems from pain to tissue loss or gangrene).
Smoking causes abdominal aortic aneurysm i.e., a swelling or weakening of the main artery of the body (the aorta) where it runs through the abdomen.

Smoking and Respiratory Disease

Smoking causes lung diseases (e.g., emphysema, bronchitis, chronic airway obstruction) by damaging the airways and alveoli of the lungs.

Smoking and Cancer
Smoking causes the following cancers:

Acute myeloid leukemia
Bladder cancer
Cancer of the cervix
Cancer of the esophagus
Kidney cancer
Cancer of the larynx (voice box)
Lung cancer
Cancer of the oral cavity (mouth)
Cancer of the pharynx (throat)
Stomach cancer
Cancer of the uterus

Smoking and Other Health Effects
Smoking has many adverse reproductive and early childhood effects, including increased risk for:

infertility,
preterm delivery,
stillbirth,
low birth weight, and
sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

Smoking is associated with the following adverse health effects:

Postmenopausal women who smoke have lower bone density than women who never smoked.
Women who smoke have an increased risk for hip fracture than women who never smoked.

References
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Institute of Medicine

The Facts About Smoking Infographic

This infographic illustrates some simple yet alarming facts about smoking. The most alarming fact we found from this infographic is the average life expectancy of a smoker is the US is 64 years old....14 years of less than a non-smoker! 1.35 billion people smoke worldwide is another crazy smoking fact. No wonder the cigarette companies aren't short of money!

An Infographic on the Global Tobacco Trade and Smoking

Here's a fascinating infographic on the Global Tobacco Trade - follow world routes for cigarette distribution and find out revealing facts about smoking including stats about who's smoking (and where). This infographic also includes an interesting list of the chemicals found in cigarettes and cigarette smoke. Click the infographic to view full size.

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How to Quit Smoking - 10 ways that worked for me

Here we explore the 10 best and most successful techniques in quitting smoking. Thousands of people quit smoking every day using one of these 10 techniques.

You will hear most quitters say that there is not only one way to stop smoking. They will however, tell you that there's a universal truth.

You have to want to quit.

8 Anti Smoking Ads

Showcasing 8 anti-smoking ads designed to make people quit smoking.

Smoking Kills Slowly

Hard hitting anti-smoking ad with the slogan 'Smoking Kills Slowly'.

Smoking is the Stupidest Way to Commit Suicide. Quit Stupidity.

Clever cartoon anti-smoking ads here using the slogan 'Smoking is the stupidest way to commit suicide. Quit stupidity'

Kill a Cigarette and Save a Life - Yours!

These 3 anti-smoking ads are very striking using black and white with the slogan 'Kill a Cigarette and Save a Life - Yours'.

The UK's National No Smoking Day 2011 fell on March 9th. The day provides a focus to educate smokers about smoking's health issues, and to help them quit.

The UK holds a National No Smoking Day every year, with the twin intentions of educating smokers and their families about the dangers of smoking and passive smoking, and of helping smokers take the first steps in their battle to quit smoking. National No Smoking Day is organised by the No Smoking Day charity.

The latest statistics show that two thirds of smokers would like to quit smoking, but that they need help and support to achieve their aim. Smokers are addicted to nicotine, so quitting smoking is more difficult than just deciding to stop.

The theme for the 2011 campaign was chosen to be "Is it Time to Quit? We can help"

Anti-Smoking Billboard

As anti-smoking adverts go, this advertisement on a huge billboard is very effective causing maximum publicity and a strong message for those who smoke or thinking about starting to smoke cigarettes.

30 Powerful Anti-Smoking Adverts

Showcasing 30 memorable anti-smoking adverts over the years that have inspired people like myself to quit smoking for good. This hard hitting anti-smoking advertising has been shown to work best when it comes to showing people that smoking is really no good at all.

Smoking Suicide

It’s called suicide because it’s your choice. Give up smoking today!

Smoking Damages Your Lungs

We all know that smoking cigarettes can lead to lung damage but this anti-smoking ad shows message graphically

Smoking Grave

Stop smoking before it is too late!

Get Unhooked

The average smoker needs over five thousand cigarettes a year.

Smoker’s Teeth

Smokers teeth are typically discoloured and this advert exaggerates on this fact!

Secondhand Smoke Kills

We all know this too but still you see people smoking indoors with children. Your cigarette is not only smoked by you. Think about your family! There are more examples of this type of shock advertising below.

Smokers Never Win!

Simple message in this clever simple advert

Cigarettes have killed more people than you know who…

Controversial but true.....what more can you say!

A smoker’s deathbed

Clever advertising using a hospital bed as a cigarette

Smoking Time Bomb

Another simple message - every smoke inhaled takes you to an early grave. Quit Smoking!

Smoking causes cancer

It's warnings are plasstered on all packs of cigarettes but yes, smoking causes cancer!

Smoking Kills

About 106,000 people in the UK die each year due to smoking

Smoking is Murder

Picking up on second hand smoke again with this shock advert. Smoking isn’t just suicide. It’s murder.

Secondhand tobacco smoke causes many of the same diseases as direct smoking.

Smoking Is Poison

12 meter long chemical tanker that looks like a cigarette was created by Cancer Research UK to highlight the toxic smoke in cigarettes.

Passive Smoking Kills

Every year nearly 3,400 people die in UK from lung cancer caused by passive smoking

The Smoker’s Lung

The smoker’s glass lung was installed in front of public buildings in Germany to encourage people to quit smoking.

Tobacco Related Deaths

Thought provoking advertisement here and controversial.

Terrorism-related deaths since 2001: 11,377

Tobacco-related deaths since 2001: 30,000,000

World No Tobacco Day

To promote no smoking day across the world, this simple anti-smoking advert delivers the message clearly

Smoking Crime Scene

Another clever advert using smoking as a murder scene

Smoker’s Morning

Toothbrush made from cigarettes and toothpaste make from ash...nice!

Slow Death

A cigarette as a bullet is simple yet effective advertising.

Smoking causes slow and painful death. Quit now!

Effect of Smoking on Lungs

Not an advert but still a thought provoking image by Sancho Hemelsoen.

Cigarette Lipstick

Think it makes you pretty? Clever advertisement from Moscow.

Anti-Smoking Billboard

Using 15,000 cigarettes butts, glued together one by one in an outdoor panel, the Peruvian League of fight against cancer demonstrated the damage that a person who smokes causes to his family.

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