Remember This One?—’Best Anti-Smoking Ad Ever Made’

By Tara MacIsaac, Epoch Times
December 31, 2013 Last Updated: July 18, 2015
Children in a Thai anti-smoking campaign ad that had millions of views online and was said by some to be the most effective anti-smoking ad ever (watch below). (Screenshot/Ogilvy/YouTube)

How would you react to a child smoking? This Thai anti-smoking ad went viral when it was released last year, sparking a renewed interest worldwide in the effects of smoking. The video was produced by the agency Ogilvy Thailand for the Thai Health Promotion Foundation. The foundation had a 40 percent increase in calls from people asking how to quit smoking within a week of the video’s release, according to a Daily News article from that time.