After the intentionally funny “smoking manners” poster I put up last week, I decided to go with an unintentionally funny—and deeply philosophical—one this week. I’ll post a few more of these in the future, but don’t worry, I won’t go through all 70 or so in the long-running ad campaign by Japan Tobacco.
Quite funny, are these real posters in Japan? Where are these posters situated?
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They’re real and I’ve seen them pretty much everywhere, but especially on trains and in public smoking areas.
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Really – they seem to be coming out with unique and creative ideas. I am sure they must be working otherwise they wont be doing it.
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It was a very long-running campaign, so the posters must have been effective. In fact, they might still be using them–I haven’t been to Japan in a few years now.
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aw it’s kind of cute!
At least until he chucks her (him?) in the dirt like yesterday’s trash…
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omg these new ones are amazing. now the ones I laughed at while living in Japan seem so… normal.
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I don’t think any of them are really all that new, but I know what you mean. I kept seeing the same ten or so when I was in Japan, but it turns out there are over 70 of these things.
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This is hilarious. Meet, love, the end. Oh, the sad tale of a cigarette.
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Even Shakespeare himself couldn’t have told the cigarette’s story any better…
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