'Where's The Outrage?'

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The Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Tobacco Control Program last week released a new round of commercials that ask, “Where’s the outrage?”
Created from unused footage of previous anti-smoking ads, six spots seek to put into context the death toll caused by smoking.
In one spot, grainy black-and-white images of an elderly woman on life support are juxtaposed against shots of a 12-year-old girl taking puffs from a cigarette.
“The tobacco industry needs your children,” intones a male voiceover.


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