Below please find a compilation of GPTC participants' anti-tobacco parodies, jokes, cartoons, personal anecdotes, videos, poems, artwork, and costumes. Feel free to send additional material for the GPTC website. The International Agency on Tobacco or Health (UK) also plans to include some of these examples in its future bulletins.

Parodies & Jokes

International WIN STONE competition!
-- Konstantin Krasovsky, Alcohol and Drug Information Center (Ukraine)

"Tobacco is not harmful." - Any tobacco executive.
-- Ted Collins, Red Ribbon Coalition (USA)

I recall a joke I read many years ago in Readers Digest:
A teacher had her students design a poster against smoking - picture, wording, the lot. One youngster's slogan was: "Don't smoke in bed! The sleeping bag you burn may be your wife!"
-- Colin Richardson, Adventist Health Ministries (Papua New Guinea)

Cartoons

A great collection cartoons, many animated: http://www.kamilyavuz.com
-- Elif Dagli, National Committee on Tobacco and Health (Turkey)

Personal Anecdotes

One of the true anecdotes I use frequently in speaking to students and lay audiences is that, while a third year medical student at Cornell University, one of my professors asked me to see a very unusual case with him, a woman with lung cancer. He told me that I might never see a case of a woman with lung cancer again. I always conclude that "we should have been so lucky!"
-- Marianne Prout, Cancer Prevention Education at Boston University School of Medicine (USA)

Video

Click on for a medically-illustrated rap song and much more. Requires fast internet connect.
http://www.mededu.miami.edu/Tobacco/main
-- Arthur Pitchenik, University of Miami Medical Center/VAM, Pulmonary Section (USA)

Poems

"Philip Morris"
-- Muna Hamzeh, Ministry of Health (Jordan)

"The Stick of Death"
-- Ima-Obong A. Ekanem, Nigerian Cancer Society

Art

"Infernal Chains" (image drawn by youth member)
-- Wazi Mulum, Blue Cross (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Marlboro doing what it does best... (illustration to poem "Philip Morris")
-- Muna Hamzeh, Ministry of Health (Jordan)

Costume

"Big Tobacco" & his dead partner in crime
-- Anna White, Essential Action (USA)

For more examples of tobacco control creativity go to May's Question.