CDC launching graphic anti-smoking ad campaign
Photo credit: AP/CDC | The government is trying to shock smokers into quitting with a graphic nationwide advertising campaign. Shawn Wright, pictured in this ad, had a tracheotomy after being diagnosed with head and neck cancer.
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Tobacco taxes and smoking bans haven't budged the U.S. smoking rate in years. Now the government is trying to shock smokers into quitting with a graphic nationwide advertising campaign.
The billboards and print, radio and TV ads show people whose smoking resulted in heart surgery, a tracheotomy, lost limbs or paralysis. The $54 million campaign is the largest and starkest anti-smoking push...
