Northwest Georgia Public Health’s Health Services Program Manager, Lisa Greeby, smiles at the ironic juxtaposition of tobacco advertising and the Georgia Tobacco Quit Line promotion on the Gas Station TV pump screen at a Floyd County Walmart.
“We’re working with Gas Station TV (GSTV), the largest national away-from-home television network, to deliver 30-second spots promoting the Georgia Tobacco Quit Line to a captive audience at a natural pause point in their day when they can’t channel surf or skip past the message with a DVR,” explained Health Services Program Manager Lisa Greeby.
“We have people’s undivided attention; there’s no multi-tasking, just pumping” Greeby said. “Using GSTV, we’re able to reach viewers at the pump in nine of our ten counties with one-to-one public health messaging. The four-week buy will deliver about a quarter-of-a-million impressions at nine northwest Georgia Walmart multi-pump, multi-screen gas stations.”
Greeby said at-the-pump television is an effective, targeted media buy. GSTV delivers Nielsen Media Research-verified information on viewership, demographics, dwell time, network size and recall. “When you’re going head-to-toe with the tobacco industry on a comparatively infinitesimal budget, it’s crucial every penny is spent wisely and cost-effectively,” said Greeby. “We get that with GSTV.”
Public health research studies show northwest Georgia’s per capita tobacco-use rates for adults and youth are considerably higher than the state average. Not surprisingly, lung cancer rates in Georgia’s northwest quadrant also surpass the state average. “Public health works hard to prevent people, especially children, from ever starting to smoke,” Greeby said, but we also work hard to help people quit.”
Northwest Georgia Public Health’s Georgia Tobacco Quit Line awareness campaign is being executed in conjunction with the Georgia State Department of Public Health’s Tobacco Use Prevention Program.
Or train 100 parrots to say tobacco kills and have them on every street corner. You have got to be kidding me.
This is why taxpayers are so frustrated with the government. We have 10% unemployment in Gordon County,
Teachers have to take cuts in pay through furlough days. Taxes are already high enough. We tax tobacco companies and use the money to put TV’s on gas pumps that tell us smoking will kill you.