Throat-Hole Guy didn't even have it this bad
Here's an amusing parody of the Throat-Hole Guy school of anti-smoking shockvertising. The man here lost his voicebox to cancer, and things went seriously downhill from there. The PSA ends with a stern warning: "Smoking contributes to and empowers the imminent robot death squad apocalypse." The surgeon general would surely agree. Via Make the Logo Bigger.
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