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More graphic PSAs, now with crystal meth
Lately, we've been noticing some really graphic PSAs, so if you haven't seen these super-horrific ads detailing the horrors of crystal meth addiction, here's one to get you started. (Another one, with the headline, "No one thinks they'll try to tear off their own skin,” was so disgusting, we couldn't look at it long enough to post it.) The campaign, from a group called the Montana Meth Project, is backed by Thomas Siebel, the tech billionaire who is now looking to get enough financing to keep the campaign, created by San Francisco's Venables Bell & Partners, running for years. (He has kicked in his own money as well, and is eschewing governmental grants because he thinks the ads are so graphic that they’d never get approved.) In fact, some of the recent ads created by the agency were too graphic even for him, so he killed them—they showed real-life addicts doing things like shooting the drug into their neck.
—Posted by Catharine P. Taylor
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March 22, 2006 | Permalink
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Great, hard-hitting, hard-to-watch campaign. Kudos to Venables...but especially to Thomas Siebel for having the guts to run them, and of course, putting up the money. Most PSA clients say they want to be hard-hitting, then go a "safer" route when they actually see the work.
Posted by: A copywriter | Mar 22, 2006 1:04:42 PM
What's wrong with sexual intercourse in a public bathroom?
Posted by: MethMouth | Mar 22, 2006 9:57:49 PM
Nothing really, people should do anywhere they want under the influence of whatever they can find handy, it's all good, ohhh and the adverts look cool, i guess shock is popular again ^_^
Posted by: fiend | Mar 23, 2006 12:04:28 PM
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