Nedra is a consultant, author and speaker who uses social marketing to promote health and social issues for nonprofits and public agencies at Weinreich Communications.
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The Above the Influence website created by Fleishman-Hillard for the Office of National Drug Control Policy's Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign has just won a Webby Award in the youth category. Take a look at it as an excellent example of a social marketing campaign using the internet to reach a youth audience.

Especially when the main target of the commercials are kids/pre-teens that don't know any facts.
Those commercials don't actually tell any real facts and instead have fancy little special effects and little catchphrases simply to sway their audience.
The "Above the Influence" campaign misinforms (by not informing at all).
It allows its audience to automatically dismiss marijuana or whatever else without giving them a chance to decide for themselves.
So while smoking marijuana may not be the smartest thing to do (in your own opinion), blindsiding a whole demographic can only lead to more problems in the future.
FUNDED BY ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO COMPANIES