I just got this from a friend. I looked around a bit, it seems that the ad agency responsible was DDB Auckland, and that it is pretty recent, like maybe the last week or so, but I could be wrong about that. The text reads:
Terrorism-related deaths since 2001: 11,337 ยท Tobacco-related deaths since 2001: 30,000,000
For help, call 0800 ASH INFO
Kind of makes me want to smoke a cigarette, like maybe this is outrageous enough to make smoking cool again...
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Unless you only ever buy & use products listed in the likes of the Good Shopping Guide, then you are ingesting and exposed to cancer-causing toxic poisons all the time. Every bite you eat, no joke. *ironically, it's drugs like cannabis and LSD that are extremely non-toxic. Their LD-50 tests either have no limits, or the toxic limits are so high that it's either pracitcally impossible to take that much, or (in LSDs case for example) it's only if you actually manufactured or distributed it that'd you ever come into contact with that much acid that it could be biologically toxic.
Some tobacco manufacturers claim the additives make the leaves burn better and taste better, um NO you just add them to make people get sick and unhealthy.
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