New York gets more amputee-smoker ads

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New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene continues its gruesome efforts to fight smoking with a new set of ads featuring “Marie” from the Bronx, who has lost various fingers and possibly bits of feet (only her fingers are shown in the ads) due to poor circulation caused by smoking. Here’s one of the TV spots; the department’s Web site has a few more. The attention to detail is impressive—the ads show the actual bone saw used in Marie’s operations.

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