My child runs out of the room screaming each time one of these ads comes on TV....Don't get me wrong, the message is clear to take care of yourself, but on a Saturday morning when cartoons are on WPIX 11....That's just flat out wrong for these people to have these ads on TV fully knowing that children will stumble onto them.

Child actors are made to demonstrate emotion all the time, and I'm sure techniques like these are used to manipulate these actors--they would have to be. The critics can't take how gut-wrenching the ad is.

Donny Deutsch? He solved my tax problems for just twenty dollars! TWENTY DOLLARS!

Certainly these ads are gross/upsetting, but these are the facts of life. Easy enough to ignore until it's your everyday.

I hate these. I really do.

I know smoking is bad, that's why I ration my cigarettes and keep it to a pack a week. i've kept that up for years. It's hard not to smoke when you're in college. I don't plan on smoking forever, I know that I wont smoke when I have children.

I mean, shit, whenever I have a cigarette and walk by a child, I walk farther away and hold my breath.

I'm not ready to quit now. I like smoking. I enjoy my cigarettes. If I didn't like them, why would I consume them? I don't want to quit and nothing is going to make me quit until I am good and ready. That is just how it is for me.

I remember being 8 years old in the early eighties when I learned, thanks to the comments of one of my teachers, that smoking cigarettes could cause cancer. My father was a heavy smoker and I became immediately concerned. I would tell him repeatedly what my teacher told me but he never listened (or simply could not because of the addiction). 20 years later I lost him to lung cancer and, even though I was an adult already, I could not help feeling inside like the little kid in this ad. I did not cry when he died, but two days latter while in mass celebrated with his body present, I could not contain the tears anymore. To my surprise, I did not cry because he had died, but because my mother was left alone and my younger brother, his favorite, no longer had a father.

great ad!

I believe that kids who are exposed to second hand smoke can be addicted to tobacco themselves. They don't have a chance.

Geez, you have to wonder what they said to the kid to make him cry like that...

How about an ad where a girl is talking on her cell phone and walking down a crowded sidewalk flicking her cigarette carelessly into the wind while burning hot ashes fall into baby carriages?

Often you'll see conservatives bitching about losing our "freedom" if you have the nerve to tell them they can't smoke in the car with their kids.

It's not Conservatives who bitch and moan about civil liberties; it's libertarians, who often pull the "freedom card" whenever a law threatens to curb something they like or force them to acknowledge some form of social responsibility. If they sound like conservatives, it's because they've gotten lame and taken a page out of their handbook by scapegoating liberals for everything.

Doughboys in World War I called cigarettes "coffin nails" and that was 90 years ago.

Addicts are rarely guilted into giving up a drug, which this ad tries to do.

That kid seriously looks like Rue McClanahan.

Hmm, a Golden Girls fan - I won't make any "judgements" based on that...

Freddynyc: LOL. Your judgments would likely be correct.

I don't smoke and never have, but this ad seriously freaks me out every time it comes on!

Could this be another agency expense like "I Love New York" paid to an Atlanta, Georgia advark? I think it doesn't look like NYC at all, but I find often things that purport to by NYC aren't, maybe it's Vancouver? Canada? Where they also grow tobacco? Don't really see the connection, maybe a Weegee shot of a burning building would work better for affect...

Did you bother to read the article? It was commissioned by an Australian anti-cancer group, and was repurposed by New York. New York merely paid for the rights to the ad, not the production.

I think, or it was the years of smoke in my eyes, I stopped smoking using the nicotine gum from New Zealand, half the price of US gum even with airmail, the article was in a shorter form when I wrote that. I read the Sunday "Daily News" this afternoon and learned it was from Australia. It might be an addendum?