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* '''Justified''':
** The ad producers are trying to motivate the audience, whether by using the ScareEmStraight angle, ReversePsychology, etc.
** SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

* '''Enforced''': SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

* '''Deconstructed''': Like anything else, these can be done well or poorly. The producers must be careful to get their message across in a believable way, otherwise it becomes a LostAesop, which is CompletelyMissingThePoint.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Someone raises their hand and says, "Yeah, what about the right lung?" or "Yeah, but that's after 20 years of smoking, not after [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin just one cigarette]]."

** The short is a hilariously exaggerated BlackComedy, a'la ''Film/KlausTheForkliftDriver.''

** The short is hilarioysly exaggerated BlackComedy, a'la ''Film/KlausTheForkliftDriver.''

** The short is hilarioysly exaggerated BlackComedy, a'la ''Film/FritzTheForkliftDriver''

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

** "The boss said I could leave early once this is done. It's my daughter's birthday, so I'm going to pick her up from school and take her and her mother out for dinner. That's never going to happen, though, because I'm about to have a terrible accident. But really, I should have known better than to try to fix a jam while the machine was still running."

** A workplace safety campaign tells why safety fatures shouldn't be circumvented.

* '''Justified''': The ad producers are trying to motivate the audience, whether by using the ScareEmStraight angle, ReversePsychology, etc.

** The ad shows how to be efficient and safe, safties or no.

* '''Parodied''': The ad is too full of {{Narm}} to be taken seriously.

** " The boss said I could leave early once this is done. It's my daughter's birthday, so I'm going to pick her up from school and take her and her mother out for dinner. That's never going to happen, though, because I'm about to have a terrible accident. But really, I should have known better than to try to fix a jam while the machine was still running."

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Played For Drama''': The ad shows the smoker slowly wasting away, and his/her family and friends dying from exposure to secondhand smoke. At the end, EverybodysDeadDave

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* '''Averted''': No such ads were made because TheyJustDidntCare.

* '''Straight''': An anti-smoking campaign ad features a comparison of a diseased lung from smoking and a healthy lung from avoiding smoke, and a [[TheLongList long list]] of [[{{Squick}} the actual ingredients of a cigarette.]]

* '''Exaggerated''': The anti-smoking campaign shows someone lighting up a cigarette. [[SpaceWhaleAesop They then explode]].

* '''Inverted''': The anti-smoking ad shows someone who ''didn't'' smoke becoming the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, HappilyMarried with two great kids, winning the gold medal at the Olympics, being crowned in a beauty pageant, etc, all because they don't smoke.

* '''Subverted''': The ad begins with someone lighting a cigarette and going about his/her day.

* '''Double Subverted''': [[CompressedVice Only to show them at the end of the ad, dying of cancer]].

* '''Lampshaded''': "This is your left lung. This is your left lung after 20 years of smoking. Any questions?"

%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

** The workplace is a NightmarishFactory with safety guards the sole line of defense against death and dismemberment.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Exaggerated''': The anti-smoking campaign shows someone lighting up a cigarette. [[StuffBlowingUp They then explode]].

* '''Basic Trope''': A government or other organization has AnAesop for the audience.
* '''Played Straight''': An anti-smoking campaign ad features a comparison of a diseased lung from smoking and a healthy lung from avoiding smoke, and a [[TheLongList long list]] of [[{{Squick}} the actual ingredients of a cigarette.]]

* '''Justified''': The ad producers are trying to motivate the audience, whether by using the ScareEmStraight angle, ReversePsychology, etc.

* '''Deconstructed''': Like anything else, these can be done well or poorly. The producers must be careful to get their message across in a believable way, otherwise it becomes a LostAesop, which is CompletelyMissingThePoint.
* '''Reconstructed''': They aren't any more {{Anvilicious}} than necessary, and the message is believable (no CompressedVice or SpaceWhaleAesop or CantGetAwayWithNuthin here!) so the audience actually learns something.

* '''Lampshaded''': "This is your left lung. This is your left lung after 20 years of smoking. Any questions?"

* '''Enforced''': SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped

* '''Discussed''':
* '''Conversed''':

* '''Played For Drama''': The ad shows the smoker slowly wasting away, and his/her family and friends dying from exposure to secondhand smoke. At the end, EverybodysDeadDave