Preganews Pregnancy Detection Card, manufactured and marketed by Mankind Pharmaceuticals is the leading brand in its category. For years, it has been bringing ‘good news’ to the mom-to-be.
To take the relationship with its user further, Preganews has just launched a new campaign #QuitBeforeYouStart specifically targeted at couples planning a family. The toll of young smokers in India and the world over is increasing swiftly. Usually women stop smoking before they start planning a baby. But in the case of men, it is very rare that they quit. Through the study done by National Health Society, United Kingdom, it is observed that men who continue smoking while planning a family, run the risk of damaging the DNA of the fetus permanently. Highlighting this issue Prega News urges the ‘would be fathers’ to quit smoking before they start planning a family.
#QuitBeforeYouStart is an urge from Preganews to the fathers to quit smoking for a healthy child. Commenting on the campaign, Mr. Rajeev Juneja, CEO, Mankind Pharma said that “Prega News is already the leading brand in the category. It is now the responsibility of the brand to take up relevant issues concerning pregnancy. For a healthy child it is the responsibility of both the mother and father to quit smoking. This takes our corporate philosophy of serving lives further”.
The campaign has been conceptualized and executed by ADK Fortune, a WPP agency. Akashneel Dasgupta, NCD, ADK Fortune adds “Planning a family is a huge decision taken by the couple. People are aware about the side-effects of mother’s smoking at the time of pregnancy. But when it comes to men there is a lack of awareness that even the father’s habit of smoking can harm the fetus. With this campaign we would like to break this misconception and highlight the fact that it is equally important for both the partners to quit smoking. If the father is smoking at the time of conceiving, it might damage the DNA of the child, leading to disability for the rest of the child’s life. Through our campaign #QuitBeforeYouStart we make a humble request to quit smoking before it is too late”.
The campaign is timed around Father’s Day and World No Tobacco Day, which would be supported with other communication stimuli apart from the film. More about the campaign can be obtained from the Prega News website and Facebook page.
Mankind Team
CEO: Rajeev Juneja
Brand & Marketing Team: Joy Chatterjee, Gunjan Virmani
ADK Fortune Team
Managing Partner: Subroto Pradhan
NCD: Akashneel Dasgupta
Account Management: Shruti Negi, Itee Gupta
RBF Productions Team
Director: Tathagata Singha
Producer: Rajesh Bhanushali
