The style of the advertisements was to use morbid or “black” humour and somewhat macabre or bizarre scenarios to engage the viewer and underline the messages (figs 2 and 3). One advertisement started with Cleese as a dead man on a slab in an empty, lonely, morgue. As the camera pans in, he sits up to “talk seriously about giving up smoking”. He then talks about the dangers of smoking, gives encouragement in the form of figures on how many others have succeeded in stopping etc, before finishing with “give up - it’s better than being one of these”. He lies down again and pulls the cover over himself . Another scene has him sitting at a table, facing the camera, pouring ashes from an urn onto the table, “let me show you how much ash a 20-a-day smoker makes?”. The initial impression is that he is saying smoking is messy, unpleasant, and that cigarettes produce just a lot ash. He finishes with the words, “of course, they’re not all cremated—some are buried”. Many of the scenes featured him “toughing out” withdrawal symptoms after he had quit and giving tips on how to get through the month when they are more severe. Another scenario has him in a domestic situation as an ex-smoker confronted by a smoker. The smoker is portrayed as a robot, who repeatedly and mechanically tries to get him to take a cigarette