The campaign comes after police admitted the proliferation of suburban drug labs was beginning to resemble the hit US TV series Breaking Bad, about a chemistry teacher who cooks up meth. Backyard drug labs had become a reality of modern life that police were increasingly having to deal with, NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione said. "They're quick return for not a lot of work but high danger - not only to those making the drugs but to the community," he told reporters on Tuesday. The fact is the chemicals that are pouring out of those backyard factories are simply poison. They kill people, that's the reality. The campaign will feature a poster identifying seven telltale signs a house is being used as a clandestine drug lab. NSW Drug Squad commander Detective Superintendent Nick Bingham said that already this year police had closed down 86 labs used to manufacture drugs including ice, speed and ecstasy, and 163 hydro houses where cannabis was grown. People shouldn't be afraid to act on their suspicions by informing authorities, Police Minister Michael Gallacher said. "Don't sit there quietly and ignore your suspicions," he told reporters in Sydney. If you think there's something going on ... then do something about it. However Det Supt Bingham warned members of the community against going into suspected drug labs, which provide an explosive combination of dangerous chemicals and unregulated settings. "It certainly does look like an episode out of Breaking Bad with the explosions we've had at Barden Ridge, and we had another one overnight," he told ABC Radio earlier on Tuesday.