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Smokers face horror  

Jump to full article: News Interactive Network/News Limited/News.com (au), 2006-11-12
Author: Marg Wenham

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AUSTRALIANS were last night presented with the most gruesome anti-smoking advertisement aired yet.

The ad, depicting a female smoker whose face is hideously disfigured from mouth and throat cancer, was broadcast after 9.30pm due to its graphic nature.

At the ad's launch yesterday, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health, Karen Struthers, said she believed the anti-smoking commercial was the most graphic ever produced in Australia.

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