Anti-Smoking Ads Are History

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Arnold’s decade-long “Make smoking history” campaign for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, one of the nation’s oldest and best-known anti-smoking initiatives, is going off the air.

The effort, arguably the most recognizable campaign in the Commonwealth, has been suspended following Gov. Jane Swift’s decision to cut the MDPH’s overall $50 million budget for the current fiscal year ending June 30 by a third. About $8 million was earmarked for paid media, and about $3.5 million had been spent.

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