Animation Smokes, Cabs Get Ads, Feminine Wash Ingeniously Gross

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– For the Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi, Maris, West & Baker has created a new commercial called Candy Factory that teaches children about the harmful effects of smoking.

Here’s a pretty cool promo for MTV2’s Sic’Emation animated programming block. The promotions was created by AMP.

– The Chicago City Council has approved taxi cab advertising and 2,175 of the city’s 6,900 cabs have asked to carry ads which will be sold by two companies.

– Pittsburgh’s Iron City Beer gets Presidential mention.

– Students at the University of Pittsburgh have won the Hinda Fit Marketing Challenge besting 17 other schools. The winning entry may be used in an upcoming campaign.

– We wouldn’t know anything about feminine wash products but this ad for Summer’s Eve is ingeniously gross.

– Sometimes even the best efforts at removing graffiti are completely pointless.

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