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\"TobaccoMadness2014_Bracket_R2\"<\/a>OK, I honestly thought I had seen every insane cigarette ad there was, but thanks to the Respiratory Health Association and Lungchigaco.org, I’ve found some more.<\/p>\n

They’ve got a game going called “Tobacco Madness,” <\/a>in which two insane cigarette ads are paired against one another, and you have to pick the one that is the most nuts. (It took me a while to get the links straightened out to this. The bracket is tiny, but if you click on \u00a0this,<\/a> it should be readable.)<\/p>\n

Here’s some of the more insane ads blown up in a slideshow. Really demented stuff. I mean the ad tying e-cigs to breast cancer awareness is really the most twisted one I’ve seen:<\/p>\n

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OK, I honestly thought I had seen every insane cigarette ad there was, but thanks to the Respiratory Health Association and Lungchigaco.org, I’ve found some more. They’ve got a game going called “Tobacco Madness,” in which two insane cigarette ads are paired against one another, and you have to pick the one that is the … Continue reading Tobacco Madness bracket — some truly insane tobacco and e-cig ads<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,240,241],"tags":[588,242,639],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cigarette-advertising","category-e-cig-advertising","category-e-cigarette-advertising","tag-cigarette-advertising","tag-e-cig-advertising-2","tag-e-cigarette-advertising"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/TobaccoMadness2014_Bracket_R2.jpg?fit=590%2C594&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-xa","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2191,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2191","url_meta":{"origin":2056,"position":0},"title":"Great article comparing today’s e-cig ads to vintage cigarette ads","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"May 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a point I've been making for weeks now. 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