Brita Built a City Out of Sugar to Show You What a Lifetime of Soda Looks Like

A can a day eventually adds up to 221,314 cubes

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In the past, water filter brand Brita has targeted plastic bottles as public enemy No. 1, but now it has its sights on a new foe: soda.

A new spot created by DDB California uses towering piles of sugar cubes to show the impact of drinking one sugary soda a day (which would be pretty a moderate intake for some families). In the ad, we see a stack of cubes illustrating a single day of cola, followed by a skyscraper modeled from a year's sugar, ending on a cityscape built from the 221,314 sugar cubes a soda fan could consume "over an average adult lifetime."

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