Blackened lung cigarette lighters

Posted by Cory Doctorow, March 26, 2009 5:40 AM | permalink

I don't know anything about this public cigarette lighter shaped like blackened lungs, but I assume they were part of an anti-smoking campaign, somewhere.

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#1 posted by Auto Parts for Brains, March 26, 2009 7:39 AM

I can imagine it having a write up saying, "someday these could be yours..."

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#2 posted by Anonymous, March 26, 2009 8:06 AM

Well, like Denis Leary said in "No Cure for Cancer", you could come out with a brand called "Tumours" with a skull on the package and smokers would still line up to buy them.

It's not like people don't know smoking is bad for them, it's just that most people do not feel any immediacy to the danger when the ill effects come 30 years after you begin.

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#3 posted by Anonymous, March 26, 2009 9:36 AM

Yeah, this was part of a non-smoking campaign in India.

Courage India.

Josh G.

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#4 posted by Vinayak, March 26, 2009 9:48 AM

That's definitely India!!

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#5 posted by Vinayak, March 26, 2009 10:05 AM

part of Anti-smoking campaign by NGO called Courage India
http://adsoftheworld.com/node/35583

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#6 posted by Keir, March 26, 2009 10:11 AM

I knew they weren't British, far too subtle! In the UK it would be a real diseased lung from a dead gut and an arm would come out and rub your face in it.

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#7 posted by Halloween Jack, March 26, 2009 10:15 AM

Black Lung Cigarettes: for a cleaner, more refreshing smoke.

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#8 posted by Antinous / Moderator, March 26, 2009 12:33 PM

It would be more accurate to show someone driving it. Pollution in big cities in India is extreme.