The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched a national ad campaign depicting illness and damage caused by smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke.
Beginning March 19, ads will run for at least 12 weeks on television, radio, billboards, and online, as well as in movie theaters, magazines, and newspapers nationwide. The ads focus on smoking-related lung and throat cancer, heart attack, stroke, Buerger's disease, and asthma.
The campaign also features stories of former smokers living with smoking-related diseases and disabilities and the toll smoking-related illnesses take on smokers and their loved ones.
The ads will include the 1-800-QUIT-NOW and the www.smokefree.gov website link, which provides free quitting information.
