British Fish Hook Anti-Smoking Poster Scares Children

17 May 2007

Topics: Random Politics

Did you hear? Apparently smoking is bad for you. No shit, that’s what people keep telling me. On TV, in the newspapers, in the streets. In service of this breakthrough news, the British Government recently unveiled a new anti-smoking campaign that has fish hooks hooked deep into a woman’s mouth and yanking her sideways. It’s a groovy poster (image below), and if I didn’t know it was a lame Brit attempt to make people stop smoking, I’d think Eli Roth and his “Hostel” guys were at it again. Anyways, apparently the ads are scaring the crap out of British kids, and over 800 complaints have already been lodged.

Eli Roth ain’t got nothing on the anti-smoking people:


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