Disadvantages Of Anti Smoking

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1. This advertisement is an anti smoking campaign commercial. The advertisement is trying to express how dangerous smoking is to smokers by using a delicate approach to instill consciousness in smokers. This advertisement comes from the Thai Health Promotion Foundation.
2. This advertisement is using cognitive component. According to (McLeod, 2009) cognitive component involves an individual’s judgment or faith about an attitude object. When the smokers received the brochure from the children, they realized that smoking is bad to their body after all of them reminded the children not to smoke and they paused to think for awhile. We think the Thai Health Promotion Foundation is doing a great effort and strategy to come up with this idea.
3. This advertisement is using central route to persuasion. According to (Petty and Cacioppo, 1981) central route is a process considered by the idea of a certain message. When the children came up to the smokers and ask for a lighter to light up the cigarette, the smoker’s advice the children not to smoke and remind them about the disadvantages of smoking can do to their body. Before the children left, they gave all smokers a brochure that says, “You worry about me, but what about yourself? Reminding yourself is the most effective warning to help you quit. Call 1600 hotline to quit smoking.” When the smokers read …show more content…

As it is a social advertisement, the target markets are people from Thailand who smoke. As this commercial was shown on TV a huge amount of people saw it. In our opinion, it was the best decision in term of how to spread out the message of this advertisement, “stop killing your self”. We can say, that the audience is quite interdependent, because this video became very popular in Thailand, as well as in the Internet in general. However, if it would be shown to different audience, like another country during the televised program, the people reaction would still be very positive, because it proposes only people

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