Powerful Ads About Quitting Smoking
"Stroke" Television Ad Description
The ad shows a woman stepping out of her house and lighting a cigarette. The camera zooms in, showing the smoke entering her body. The scene shifts to a doctor holding a brain. The doctor sets the brain down and slices into it, showing blood draining from a clot. The scene returns to the woman.
Voiceover:
Every cigarette is doing you damage.
Smoking creates blood clots which cause strokes. Some strokes kill, blind, or paralyze. Others you don't even know you're having. This is the result of a minor stroke in a smoker, aged 38.
Every cigarette is doing you damage.
Text on screen:
For help quitting call:
New York State Smokers' Quitline
1-866-NY-QUITS (1-866-697-8487)
www.doingyoudamage.com
Sponsored by the Western NY Tobacco Free Programs
