Like the ones about if you smoke you might beat your wife is stupid…I smoke and its annoying to hear "you better quit" all the time from someone who has never picked up a cigarette, much less smoked one.
It gets better, it’s your tax money that’s paying for them.
The UK’s most complained about advert in 2007 was an anti-smoker (whoops, sorry that should be anti-smoking) advert that was paid for out of the NHS budget.
To give you some idea of the scale of the government anti-smoker drive in the UK, their costs were £17.34 million in 2003-4, £24 million in 2004-5 and £22.7 million in 2005-6 (I can’t find figures for any later than that, but the quantity seemed to increase).
Compare that with the cost of the children’s hospital that’s just been built near me (£30 million, of which they had to fund-raise half themselves).