{"id":1340,"date":"2014-01-01T14:31:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T21:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theloungeisback.wordpress.com\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2014-01-01T14:31:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T21:31:52","slug":"awesome-anti-smoking-ad-from-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1340","title":{"rendered":"Awesome anti-smoking ad from Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is great. Another find on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/\">Epoch Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An outstanding<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/n3\/425126-remember-this-one-best-anti-smoking-ad-ever-made\/\"> anti-smoking ad from Thailand<\/a>. Two little kids walk up to a bunch of smokers holding cigarettes asking for a light. In every case, the adults refuse to give the kids a light and instead give them a lecture about how cigarettes are poisonous and cause emphysema, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The commercial ends with the children handing adults a note, saying, &#8220;you worry about me, but not about yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And cue the adults giving the kids puzzled looks. Powerful stuff. This commercial has been playing worldwide for a few weeks:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g_YZ_PtMkw0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is great. Another find on Epoch Times. An outstanding anti-smoking ad from Thailand. Two little kids walk up to a bunch of smokers holding cigarettes asking for a light. In every case, the adults refuse to give the kids a light and instead give them a lecture about how cigarettes are poisonous and cause &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1340\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Awesome anti-smoking ad from Thailand<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,27,57,67],"tags":[82,127,615],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-tobacco-campaign","category-global-smoking","category-smoking-2","category-thailand","tag-anti-smoking-advertising","tag-global-smoking-2","tag-thailand"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-lC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3943,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3943","url_meta":{"origin":1340,"position":0},"title":"NPR report: French teens continue smoking despite government crackdown","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"August 31, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Heard a radio report on NPR last week \u00a0about how efforts to curb teen smoking in France are flagging, because smoking is still considered hip and suave among French youths. 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