New Anti-Smoking Ads Warn Teens 'It's Gay to Smoke' [video] // Current

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Here's the latest development in the anti-smoking campaign aimed at teens: television ads that claim smokers are gay (and of course, no one wants to be gay, right?)

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  Megs_duh
- i SO thought this was real. i really did. and not until the end when the chick was just a bit too enthusiastic did i think "maybe its a joke...."
  
  i was getting really worked up too.
  
  what a relief. i thought i was going to have to write an angry worded letter.
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  FrankyFourFingers
- You almost had me Onion News!!
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  mjseydel
- This is hysterical!
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  funkadelic83
- that's pretty funny. i wouldn't be surprised if this fake ad would actually work.
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  Numbz
- I want to watch about the songerwriter who writes about sea creatures... when it's really about sex.
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  hunzedog
- smokers like putting dirty little round things in their mouth and sucking. SAVOR THE FLAVOR !! 1200 died today in marlboro country
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  extracrazykiwi2008
- So that is why some many of my gay friends smoke...
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  EmperorThan
- Hey I got an even better one for the British crowd
  
  "Don't be a fag, don't smoke fags."
  
  Ehh? Ehh?
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  S3th
- Dammit...Sorry...I just posted this one and saw you already had!
  
  I could actually see the religious right begin a campaign like this though.
  
  Anyone remember the teletubbies fiasco?
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  CalgarC
- i can guarantee you that 90% of those teens will say, but my mommy and daddy smoke and they had me...
  
  the older ones will just shrug their shoulders and ignore it...
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  UrbanSuperman
- Don't mean to ofend but it was just so obviouse = )
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  UrbanSuperman
- "So, who wants a quick fag?" hahahahaha... No
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  xTHHxAimiForevr
- Funniest thing I've seen all day. I thought it was fake. It's fake right....?
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  irtehjoe
- i love the onion lol
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