I remember seeing hundreds of anti-drug commercials when I was younger. I remember seeing a person with an egg and a frying pan. I do not think that there is anyone who does not remember this famous phrase, “This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?” The commercial that I selected is one of the most remember able and most entertaining. The commercial features Rachel Leigh Cook in a small kitchen. She is holding an egg and a frying pan. The egg is supposed to represent your brain, while the frying pan is heroin. She puts the egg on the counter and smashes it with the frying pan. The residue that was still on the pan represents what your body does through. While in a crazy motion Rachel takes the pan and starts to smash everything that is in the kitchen. This is done so that the public could be able to see how heroin ruins everything else in your life. When I turn on the television there are so many anti-smoking commercials than illegal drug commercials. It just seems backwards because cigarettes are legal and marijuana is illegal. There are so many problems with smoking. Everyone claims about the smoking ban, which is in effect in Ohio, is criticizes smokers because they cannot smoke in public but they have to pay taxes. It is also a personal chose that a person can do what they want because it is their body.

After I saw that commercial for the first time it made me laugh. Granite I had no idea what heroin was nor did I care but the commercial seriously made laugh. I even remember as a child running up to my mother to ask her if I could trash the kitchen just because I thought it looked cool. Even growing up I remember all the programs that were around to prevent children from doing drugs. One of the largest programs in my school was the DARE. We were taught to “Just Say No” even though I had no idea what drugs were. It was also ironic that our instructor, who was a police officer, was arrested for drug charges. There’s not a mixed message.

With all the programs, advertisements, and commercials that are still around I wonder whether they truly work. I ask this because you always hear about the individuals who “experiment” or “try it once” think about everything they learned from those programs. In my graduating class there was one student who organized a student assembly about the dangers of marijuana, even though him and his friends were high every day before class. I wonder if my school did not have the DARE program would more students would have drug problems.

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