Pepcid ad should give women heartburn

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A current Pepcid AC spot (doesn’t appear to be available online), showing a man who suffers from heartburn in an airport about to recklessly eat a burrito, has one element that is ridiculously distracting. The ad shows the guy, an average, balding, overweight middle-aged man, in slo-mo about to take a bite of the burrito when his family panics and comes running to the rescue to stop him. His two kids look about right: teens or pre-teens, a son and daughter.

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