Posts tagged anti-smoking

Put out your butts: Army awards grant for anti-smoking game

by David Hinkle (Jul 11th 2009 2:00AM)

The Texas Medical Center reports that the U.S. Army recently awarded a $3.7 million grant to Alexander Prokhorov, M.D., Ph.D.,to develop an anti-smoking video game for Army personnel. But, in its infinite wisdom, the U.S. Army failed to realize there's already a game that can help you quit ...

Floridian anti-smoking ad looks very familiar

by Griffin McElroy (Jun 29th 2008 7:30PM)

Anti-smoking organization Tobacco Free Florida recently released a local TV spot featuring a fake FPS title, which for all intents and purposes, may as well be titled Haylo, created by little-known developer Spungie. The ad shows the unwisely unhelmeted hero laying waste to a squadron of ...

Florida Anti-Tobacco Ad rooted in games

by Xav de Matos (Jun 25th 2008 2:15PM)

A fantastic anti-tobacco ad from Florida, discovered by GamerTag Radio, takes place within a Halo-esque videogame world where the battling hero survives a vicious robotic onslaught -- only to succumb to smoking. Part of the Tobacco Free Florida campaign, the videogame themed advertisement is the ...