{"id":2647,"date":"2014-11-15T01:01:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T01:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2647"},"modified":"2014-11-15T01:07:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T01:07:22","slug":"edgy-racy-sexy-ad-for-e-cigs-blu-e-cigs-will-make-you-as-cool-as-a-racecar-driver-or-joe-camel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2647","title":{"rendered":"Edgy, racy, sexy ad for e-cigs &#8230; Blu E-cigs will make you as cool as a racecar driver &#8230; or Joe Camel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2648\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2648\" style=\"width: 453px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/joe-camel-stephen-dorff-race-car-driver.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2648\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?attachment_id=2648\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/joe-camel-stephen-dorff-race-car-driver.jpg?fit=453%2C251&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"453,251\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"joe camel, stephen dorff race car driver\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/joe-camel-stephen-dorff-race-car-driver.jpg?fit=453%2C251&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-2648 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/joe-camel-stephen-dorff-race-car-driver.jpg?resize=453%2C251&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"joe camel, stephen dorff race car driver\" width=\"453\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/joe-camel-stephen-dorff-race-car-driver.jpg?w=453&amp;ssl=1 453w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/joe-camel-stephen-dorff-race-car-driver.jpg?resize=100%2C55&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/joe-camel-stephen-dorff-race-car-driver.jpg?resize=200%2C110&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Camel and Stephen Dorff (Yup, that&#8217;s actually Stephen Dorff) were race car drivers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OK, I am literally sending an email to the FDA about this new Blu E-cigarette ad. Man, this ad annoyed me the first time I saw it about a week ago, and it&#8217;s still bugging me.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s with our longtime Blu spokesman &#8212; washed-up actor Stephen Dorff, advertising a new cherry-flavoured Blu e-cig. Stephen Dorff is shirtless and tattooed, vaping on an e-cig, then he&#8217;s climbing a mountain vaping on an e-cig, then he&#8217;s walking on a beach vaping on an e-cig, then he&#8217;s riding a bicycle vaping on an e-cig, all, then he&#8217;s walking on a racetrack wearing a Blu racing uniform vaping on an e-cig, then he is at a formal party vaping on an e-cig, then he is at a hip bar, vaping on an e-cig, then playing pool, while vaping on an e-cig &#8230; all to a jazzy, funky song by T-Bird and the Breaks (with the refrain of &#8220;Lift me up&#8221; as in &#8220;Blu cigarettes lift me up not only with their little charge of nicotine, but with their cool hipness, too.&#8221;)<\/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\/kFVYMP1skvk?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>So, e-cigs are portrayed as sexy as hell. Funky music blaring, Dorff shirtless, partying, drinking, &#8230; heck, even driving a racecar. Blu E-cigs will actually make you as cool as a racecar driver.<\/p>\n<p>Wow, just wow, this is the most annoying\u00a0Blu commercial I&#8217;ve seen yet, blatantly stealing from the &#8220;cool, suave&#8221; school of tobacco advertising. &#8230; heck, e-cigs will even turn you into a racecar driver. Just like Joe Camel. Yup, Joe Camel was a racecar driver, too.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind the fact that activists are concerned that the candy-flavoured e-cigs are directed at kids even without the cool, hip, jazzy advertising &#8230; this is just over the top. E-cig use among teens has tripled in three years and ads like this are one of the big reasons why. This is what the FDA needs to STOP. This is a prime example of the kind of e-cig advertising they need to crack down on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I am literally sending an email to the FDA about this new Blu E-cigarette ad. Man, this ad annoyed me the first time I saw it about a week ago, and it&#8217;s still bugging me. It&#8217;s with our longtime Blu spokesman &#8212; washed-up actor Stephen Dorff, advertising a new cherry-flavoured Blu e-cig. Stephen Dorff &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2647\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Edgy, racy, sexy ad for e-cigs &#8230; Blu E-cigs will make you as cool as a racecar driver &#8230; or Joe Camel<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[95,240,241,21,22,25],"tags":[371,370,639,595],"class_list":["post-2647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blu","category-e-cig-advertising","category-e-cigarette-advertising","category-e-cigarettes","category-e-cigs","category-fda","tag-blu-e-cigarettes","tag-blu-e-cigs","tag-e-cigarette-advertising","tag-fda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/joe-camel-stephen-dorff-race-car-driver.jpg?fit=453%2C251&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-GH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1106,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1106","url_meta":{"origin":2647,"position":0},"title":"Sexy e-cigarette advertising","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"June 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I noticed this beginning a couple of months ago -- a sexy new ad campaign for an e-cigarette called Blu. I first saw an ad on TV and was shocked to see a cigarette ad on TV, then realized it was for an e-cigarette. 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Chuck Shumer calls for ban on e-cigarette advertising to minors","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"March 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This is interesting ... and becoming a bigger and bigger thorn with e-cigs -- e-cigarette advertising. (thanks to Haruko for this link) Sen. Chuck Shumer, D-N.Y., has called on the Federal Trade Commission to ban e-cig advertising to minors. Currently, unlike cigarettes, there are NO advertising guidelines in place for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;cigarette advertising&quot;","block_context":{"text":"cigarette advertising","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?cat=17"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/60290267_santasmoke.jpg?fit=650%2C306&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/60290267_santasmoke.jpg?fit=650%2C306&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/60290267_santasmoke.jpg?fit=650%2C306&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4103,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4103","url_meta":{"origin":2647,"position":2},"title":"E-cigs banned indoors in New York","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"November 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I only got savvy to this story because I get front pages from the New York Daily News. The main story here is about Bill O'Reilly, but up in the corner, I noticed the front-page headline of e-cigs smoked. Sure enough, the story is e-cigarettes are now banned indoors in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;e-cigarettes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"e-cigarettes","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?cat=21"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/e-cigs-cover.jpg?fit=797%2C573&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/e-cigs-cover.jpg?fit=797%2C573&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/e-cigs-cover.jpg?fit=797%2C573&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/e-cigs-cover.jpg?fit=797%2C573&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2744,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2744","url_meta":{"origin":2647,"position":3},"title":"USA Today editorial: If the FDA won&#8217;t crack down on the marketing of e-cigs, perhaps states should","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"December 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"USA Today published an interesting editorial this week on how to stop the explosion of e-cig use by teenagers. The editorial first brings up a shocking statistic (shocking to me, at least) -- that the percentage of kids under 18 who have used e-cigs (17 percent) is now higher than\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;E-cig advertising&quot;","block_context":{"text":"E-cig advertising","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?cat=240"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MW-CA625_pfecig_MG_20140424122434.jpg?fit=569%2C398&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MW-CA625_pfecig_MG_20140424122434.jpg?fit=569%2C398&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MW-CA625_pfecig_MG_20140424122434.jpg?fit=569%2C398&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2815,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2815","url_meta":{"origin":2647,"position":4},"title":"CNN report on the rise of e-cigarettes among teens &#8212; &#8220;Are e-cigs really the Wild West?&#8221;","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"January 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"CNN did a piece Dec. 31 (Hey, the report includes that sucky Blu ad I hate with the racecar-driving Stephen Dorff). When asked by CNN correspondent Poppy Harlow if e-cigs are \"really the Wild West,\" Mitchell Zeller, director of the Food and Drug Administration Center for Tobacco Products, responds, \"Absolutely.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;CNN&quot;","block_context":{"text":"CNN","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?cat=409"},"img":{"alt_text":"24158B5C00000578-2875243-image-a-30_1418712617844","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/24158B5C00000578-2875243-image-a-30_1418712617844.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3685,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3685","url_meta":{"origin":2647,"position":5},"title":"Research: Candy-flavoured e-cig advertisements attract teen users","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"January 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This is an article from Medical Daily about research that strongly suggests that candy-flavoured e-cigarette products really are encouraging more teenagers to take up vaping. 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