Cancer Patients Aid Association (CPAA)

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Cancer Patients Aid Association (CPAA) is a registered charitable non-governmental organization which was established in the year 1969 in India. Ever since then, it has been working towards the total management and prevention of cancer as a disease. CPAA has a tradition of offering service to needy cancer patients from all over India and the neighboring countries. “Smokers are liable to die young”, one of the many ways through which CPAA discourage smoking because of the role it plays in lung cancer was first aired in 2010 and has been around since then. Looking at fig. 1. “cemetery”, it is obvious that the advertisement is targeting smokers (mostly the young), telling them how detrimental smoking could be to them and their loved ones. …show more content…

This message is effective because of its credibility. We live in a society where we respect things that come from prestigious organizations or persons. This advertisement recognizes that because it’s coming from a well-respected organization, Cancer Patients Aid Association, that’s been around for decades. Also, the presence of a priest in the picture shows how reliable it is. As many of us would like to think “a priest won’t play with a cemetery, unless it is something serious”. As a result, the advertisement has effects on viewers. The CPAA uses those two merged pictures to appeal to our sense of reasoning. From the picture to the left, we can see that the two young men smoking isolates themselves from family and friends who are trying to warm them how they could die from smoking. Not minding the loved ones, they continued to smoke and eventually, they died. They ended up in the same cemetery that they’d been previously warned against. The logic is inescapable: if you smoke, you’re liable to die before your time. If you really want to enjoy life to the fullest, quit smoking and for those that haven’t started, don’t start at

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