Joe Camel And Smoking Cartoons

In the past tobacco companies used smoking cartoons and cartoon characters like Joe Camel to try and market cigarettes to kids. If you go back and look in many old kids cartoons like Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry you can find beloved childrens cartoon icons smoking. Parents who were concerned that watching these smoking cartoons would make their kids want to smoke or think it was cool to smoke started a campaign to get rid of cartoons that showed any of the characters smoking. Some parents felt that this went too far, and that a 2 second shot of Jerry the mouse smoking a cigarette for comedic effect would not make a 6 year old want to smoke a cigarette but anti-smoking advocates said that it’s never too early to teach kids that smoking is dangerous and can harm you. In the end, the anti smoking advocated won out and tobacco icons like the Marlboro Man, Joe Camel, and the snazzy “Modern Woman” who was the face of Virginia Slim cigarettes were retired.

Cartoons And Pot

Pot smoking cartoons or cartoons featuring characters smoking weed have become an Internet staple. College kids who think that cartoon characters smoking weed is hysterically funny have used their expensive computer equipment to create sometimes simple, sometimes ornate film clips or pictures of cartoon characters smoking. Some of the pictures are clips of old cartoons that can no longer be shown because they show characters smoking and some are new and though up by individual people who made little animated films of their cartoon character smoking weed. There isn’t much that can be done about smoking cartoon characters whether they are in video clips featuring cartoon characters smoking cigarettes or cartoon characters smoking weed. The internet is the last great frontier and there are very few people to patrol the material that does up on the Internet. Some people choose to express themselves by making cartoons of cartoon characters smoking marijuana and that’s what makes America great.

Using Cartoons To Get Kids To Stop Smoking

With the help of child psychologists some anti smoking groups decided to use stop smoking cartoons to try and get teens to stop smoking. These cleverly produced quit smoking cartoons use a popular form of media, cartoons , to show that smoking isn’t cool. Anti-smoking cartoons have been successful in convincing kids and teens not to smoke.