"Hey you put out that cigarette! I didn't make public my love for the penises of other men just so that you could kill me with your homophobic second hand smoke!"
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If anyone ever says that, I think it's perfectly legal to administer a roundhouse boot to the head. How did the whole smoking issue become a gay thing? Has the non-smoking regime* hit a dead end with their advertising? Honestly, those Crazy World ads were getting to be pretty weak sauce but I didn't think that they were doing that bad. Just look at the guy on the left, for crying out loud! He looks so pissed off that they made him put his arm around the other guy. And the other guy still doesn't know how to feel, he's just happy to be working and, the strange tickle in his pants is making him wonder if gay-for-pay is really that bad.
What happened to the smoking ads that really rammed the point home? What ever happened to the creepy old lady who smoked out of her neck? What happened to the ads that showed you the end result of your glamour habit? Black tar covered lungs? Depleted and sickly old men who can't walk without a oxygen tank? You would watch those commercials and you would be left with a sense of dread that maybe your early morning cough wouldn't be going away anytime soon. Those commercials were effective at putting the fear of God into you. Now, who is going to look up at that soon-to-be-covered-in-birdshit gay billboard and say to themselves "Hey! I can totally relate to what that fag ass billboard is saying"? Don't strain yourself trying to figure it out the answer is: fucking no one. You know what? I was trying to quit smoking myself, but now I think I'll light up, just to thumb my nose at the gay community.
* everyone else is using this word so i figured I'd sneak it in here somewhere.
