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Star Wars PSA
Dec. 28, 2009
The entire film industry is apparently busy prepping their fabulous New Year's plans rather than producing actual news stories to report on, so here’s a really old STAR WARS anti-smoking commercial I’ve never seen before.
It features R2-D2 and C-3PO illustrating the dangers of smoking. Not sure if a robot holding a cigarette with a claw is hazardous to said robot’s health, but Threepio makes the point that they should be setting a good example for humans. Though if that’s the case, the lesson I learned from R2 about sticking my fingers into random wall sockets as a child is pretty contrary to that philosophy.
Source: Sci-fi Wire , Fuzzy Memories
Extra Tidbit: Remember "Death Sticks" from ATTACK OF THE CLONES? *rolls eyes*
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8:12AM on 12/29/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
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I mean... was Rob Reiner and other anti-smoking fascists not around to do this PSA? Seriously, if people want to smoke, then let them smoke, if they don't want to then more power to them. I think people who do smoke...
I mean... was Rob Reiner and other anti-smoking fascists not around to do this PSA? Seriously, if people want to smoke, then let them smoke, if they don't want to then more power to them. I think people who do smoke know smoking is bad for them anyways without having some conscience on their shoulder constantly reminding them.
8:02AM on 12/29/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
Besides, if that shot of R2 cranking a butt around a corner isn't enough to make this vintage ad a classic – you've just telegraphed a complete inability to appreciate kitsch and irony.
Besides, if that shot of R2 cranking a butt around a corner isn't enough to make this vintage ad a classic – you've just telegraphed a complete inability to appreciate kitsch and irony.
11:34PM on 12/28/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile
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"more than 161,000 will die of the disease... The average hospital stay cost for lung cancer in 2006 cost $14,200" That's smokers, and family members who are subjected to them and a handful of people who just pulled the short straw. You do the math on the cost.
And if the fat cow who drops her two kids off at my son's school every morning, smoking with one window cracked, feels her civil liberties are being infringed by commercials - she can suck a fat one.
I smoked plenty when I was a dip shit in college. Anti-smoking campaigns raise awareness, and definitely contribute to people moving towards a decision to quit. You can argue that media doesn't influence people, but with a name like "MoviesAreMyLife", it would be hard to take your argument with any credibility.
A little dorky, sure - but one of the few applications of Star Wars that wasn't solely designed to line Lucas' coffers.
Ugh - championing the right for people to smoke trivializes the real rights of expression and assembly that require defending, and go unused everyday by people who think the best thing the right to free speech grants them is the freedom to wear an ironic t-shirt and bitch about whomever is currently president.
2:11PM on 12/28/2009 Add as a friend | MFC profile