17 November 2009

The truth in advertisements

I wonder why consumers dont believe the only advertisements that speak the truth!
Yeah, am talking about the tobacco advertisements. They shout that you will die if you use their products.
But consumers seem to think... 'Uh huh... good one.. give me a six pack of those..'

Finally, after twenty years of abuse, when you end up sitting opposite a glum doc who is shaking his head with your medical examination report in his hand and hear
' you have a malignant tumour in the lower lungs that has reached its secondary stage.. "

you go.. "yeah.... right.. " with big doses of nods.. with an equally intense look.. and follow up with..
" whats that..?"....
Doc looks up with a look that mixes "oh dear" and .. "Oh you are stupid.." and says .. " you are going to die!!!"
"But, am only 45 doc.. "
"yeah., you are too young to die, but you've contracted cancer in the lungs and its too late for a cure.."
That's when it dawns on you .. the advertisements indeed spake the truth! If you think that they have been humbled by the moment of truth! Oh boy! you are wrong!

Sue the tobacco companies!! For they deliberately made me ignore those warnings with enticing advertisement themes that somehow made them to those big bold fonts and the sign of skull on the pack! ha ha ha.. going to get rich.. payback time folks!!!! I'm going to get back all the money i paid for those six packs!!! ha ha ha... .

Soon in the death bed, surrounded by sons and daughters who have caught on the habit as well and have just stepped back from their tenth puff for the day, and who are equally deaf and blind to the consequences of the vice as you were, whom you cannot reprimand for you were a slave of the same vice, you realize that you have not only killed yourself, you have also deliberately endangered your children who are also on the same road to death by their own hands, you realize the gravity of the situation. That one day when you were sixteen and had gone out with the boys who were trying out a new fad.. Why not? Let me give it a puff.. i don't want to sound uncool by not joining the gang.. that one moment in lapse of judgment... Wish life had an undo button!

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