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Put a Sharron Angle celebrity endorsement on the cigarette packs. Women smokers will be horrified by the lizard skin and dentures, and men will be unable to get it up for a week.

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(a) Cheech Marin (b) Bob Denver (c) Woody Harrelson (d) Ashton Kutcher

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Mr. (Ms.?) Soros, imagine for a moment that a new product of any sort comes onto the market that causes lung cancer in 1% of users. It could be the most enjoyable thing imaginable, it could even cure acne or hemorrhoids or male pattern baldness, but with a cancer risk like that, there is no fucking way American society would allow it, even with the power of Pfizer and GM behind it.

Lifetime risk of lung cancer for American men who smoke is 17%, for women 11%.

The 5-year <i>survival</i> rate for all lung cancers is about 15%.

COPD is a nasty way to die, too, I hear. So yeah, smoking is stupid, and it's a big threat.

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Let's imagine for a moment a world where Ron smoked a LOT more...unfiltered too.

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"Celebrity endorsements are lazy."

-Don Draper

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Sex appeal is everything in advertising. Maybe they could show a guy with a green fog of smoker's breath coming out of his mouth, and the girl next to him with a 'oh no way I'm gonna bone this guy' look on her face.

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i'm waiting for the fda's meth campaign.

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Kindly disregard. They pretty much did this. Not in green but still.

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