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D&AD Annual 2020

Quit for Your Pets
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  • DirectDirect Response/Film

Country

  • New Zealand

Client

  • Health Promotion Agency

Creative Director

  • Anne Boothroyd
  • Scott Maddox

Copywriter

  • Erin Mattingly

Art Director

  • Jack Wadham

Group Account Director

  • Ben Hopkinson

Client Service Director

  • Emma Dalton

Advertising Agency

  • YoungShand

Design Agency

  • YoungShand

Smokers are well versed on the harmful effects of cigarettes. While this is well understood, quitting for good can feel impossible and take several attempts, with smokers becoming desensitised to messaging over time. The challenge was to deliver a message that smokers couldn't ignore. So, YoungShand showed them what their habit does to an unexpected member of their family - their pet. NZ has one of the highest rates of pet ownership in the world. It's this special connection that the campaign centres around, educating smokers that when you smoke around pets, they're twice as likely to get cancer.