Please Extinguish Your Ego
The "Smoker's Style" ad campaign from Nipponese cig purveyor Japan Tobacco ("Delight World") has been going on for quite awhile now, and it's simultaneously direct, wistful, and honest about the ugly manners of smokers. The little stick-figure illustrations are concerned with smoking etiquette, expressed in parables, aphorisms, or other sage truisms. Since we can't smoke in bars or restaurants in New York anymore, the one-third of Gawker's editors who no longer indulges in coffin nails can afford to be nostalgic about smoker culture; it's easier to reminisce fondly about all the little rituals and cruelties of smoking when actual, current smokers are forced to lurk outside in the elements with the hoboes and interns. This figure about smokers liking their own smoke (versus that of others) is a particular favorite, though there are several that could quite easily translate to your favorite Cafe Press product.
