WTFvertising Used to Get Kids Off Tobacco

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Three high school kids stand at the side of a track. One pulls out some chewing tobacco, then everyone’s attention is captured by a rabbit with antlers. Bad taxonomy job? The creature spits tobacco out on the kids, everybody goes “Daaaang,” suddenly somebody’s missing a front tooth, and the moral is, don’t chew tobacco.

“Dip. It can make your teeth fall out!”

By EnviroMedia for Spit It Out Texas. I don’t get it. Off-topic, anti-tobacco ads — no matter how disgusting — always make me nostalgic for Big League Chew.

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