WhyQuit.Com  |  About Us  |  Contact Us  |  Link to Us  |  What's New?

Below is a partial yet growing list of links to Fall 2004 tobacco advertisements found in U.S. magazines. We cannot continue to ignore the collective message and impact of$11.2 billion in annual tobacco industry marketing if we're to have any credibility as being dedicated to youth nicotine dependency prevention.

The below cigarette and oral tobacco product marketing images are yours to take, study and share with students, parents, health educators, smokers, cessation facilitators, community leaders, political leaders, and health officials. Imagine scores of websites and hundreds of community based programs each producing their own highly effective counter-marketing campaigns. Imagine children, teens and college-aged students who are trained and able to see through the high quality bait being used to lure and hook them.

How many cigarettes does it take before stirring the senses becomes permanent (Salem)? Is menthol for flavor or throat numbing? Do grown-ups really smoke for flavor or in truth are 90% addicted to smoking nicotine under DSM III mental health standards, and smoke because it hurts when they don't. Taste? How many tastebuds are inside the average human lung? A ride on a camel or on Marlboro's bucking bronco, how long will the ride last and where does it take you? Pleasure or obedience? What pleasure is there in dying 14 years early? Why is price really so important?

The choices are simple. We can remain silent while this generation of youth is harvested at the rate of 6,000 first-time smokers daily and3,000 new daily smokers or we can devote ourselves to protecting them.

If you subscribe or have access to a magazine containing an ad not listed below please either e-mail it in .jpg (30k to 100k), .gif (larger) or bitmap (largest) format toJohn R. Polito or mail the original color image to John R. Polito, 1325 Pherigo Street, Mount Pleasant, SC 29464. If you have any questions give me a call at (843) 849-9721.

Also any organization that would like to mirror, backup, archive or otherwise host any or all of the below images, they're "all" yours for the taking. Feel free to delete WhyQuit's source reference at the bottom and add your own if so inclined. It is not necessary to credit this site in any manner whatsoever. Simply take the ads and put them to work.

I ask for your help in two important regards. First, print the below list and then drop by your community middle and/or high school and ask to see the librarian. Share a copy of the list and while there skim the library's magazines and satisfy yourself that tobacco isn't being marketed inside your schools.

Help Stir Time Inc.'s Senses

We must awaken the below magazines to the horrific role they collectively play in creating a community climate that fosters and breeds chemical dependency upon nicotine. Time Inc. owns130+ magazines around the world, including such heavily nicotine baited magazines as Time, People, Sports Illustrated, Popular Science, Field & Stream, Entertainment, and Outdoor Life. As shown below, Time Inc. is engaged in selling candy flavored holiday season cigarettes (Camel's Mocha Mint and Warm Toffee) and fruit flavored oral tobacco (Apple flavored Skoal). We invite you to devote a few moments toward encouraging Time to come to its senses. You'll find contact information on WhyQuit's"Time to Boycott Time page.

The below images are here for one purpose and one purpose only -- to take, make yours, analyze and counter with truth. Together we can, and the time for action is now.

Breathe deep, hug hard, live long!  John