{"id":2767,"date":"2014-12-20T02:48:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T02:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2014-12-20T02:48:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T02:48:28","slug":"really-awkward-and-uncomfortable-ad-for-copd-medication-symbicort-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2767","title":{"rendered":"Really awkward and uncomfortable ad for COPD medication Symbicort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this ad in National Geographic, and frankly, I just kind of blanched when I saw it.<\/p>\n<p>I get the point. It\u2019s an ad for Symbicort, which aids in breathing for people dealing with COPD. It\u2019s a drawing of the Big Bad Wolf trying to burn down the pigs\u2019 house, but he can\u2019t because he has COPD. (There is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispot.tv\/ad\/7CM2\/symbicort-wolf\">television commercial\u00a0<\/a>with the same motif\u00a0that I have never seen)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/drCWcLnWGP8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>That part isn\u2019t too weird, but what bothered me, was a depiction of the three little pigs laughing at the wolf with COPD. It made me think they\u2019re making fun of someone strugging to breathe because of their COPD.<\/p>\n<p>I dunno, maybe I\u2019m reading too much into it and being anal retentive about it, but it bugged me. It didn\u2019t outrage me, it didn\u2019t infuriate me (Like Rand Paul blaming cigarette taxes for Eric Garner\u2019s death). The depiction of people laughing at someone with COPD simply bothered me. On every level imaginable, COPD is not a joke and it\u2019s not funny. It came off tone deaf and awkward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this ad in National Geographic, and frankly, I just kind of blanched when I saw it. I get the point. It\u2019s an ad for Symbicort, which aids in breathing for people dealing with COPD. It\u2019s a drawing of the Big Bad Wolf trying to burn down the pigs\u2019 house, but he can\u2019t because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2767\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Really awkward and uncomfortable ad for COPD medication Symbicort<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[19,386],"tags":[590,702],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-copd","category-symbicort","tag-copd","tag-symbicort"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/COPD-ad1.jpg?fit=772%2C692&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-ID","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":398,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=398","url_meta":{"origin":2767,"position":0},"title":"Danica Patrick joins COPD campaigndrive4","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"February 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't follow car racing (I mean, I don't follow it with extreme prejudice), but I have of course heard of Danica Patrick -- I mean you can't hardly get away from those Go Daddy! commercials of hers. 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