Saturday 16 November, 2024

Canadian ad compares social smoking to farting

Are you a social farter?

“JUST BECAUSE I fart at parties now and then, it doesn’t make me a farter”.

That’s the logic being applied to social smoking by this new ad from Canada’s Ministry of Health as part of the “Quit the Denial” campaign.

YouTube/Nikolay Slavov

Graphic images to appear on cigarette packets>

1 in 3 women in Ireland are smokers>

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Emer McLysaght

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Canadian ad compares social smoking to farting

Graphic images to appear on cigarette packets>

1 in 3 women in Ireland are smokers>