12/21: anti-smoking ad features dead guinea pig
 

http://cellar.org/pictures/guineapigad.jpg

The full story is at <a href="http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=33678">Ad age</a>.

I would like to know whether this is Photoshop trickery, or if the photo agency had to kill the animal to get their shot.

Next we'll invite PETA to the table, so we can see whether the animal-rights people are more tenacious than the anti-smoking people. Let's make it a steel cage match, shall we?

Re: 12/21: anti-smoking ad features dead guinea pig
 

Hmmm...not bad. I prefer a battle royale. If it's a last-man-standing deal, and if the anti-tobacco folks win, all the animal-rights folks must eat a 16 ounce sirloin steak. If animal-rights wins, the anti-tobacco folks must smoke a pack of Camel non-filters.

I hear that occasionally guinea pigs die of natural causes, so perhaps this was merely an effort to make an otherwise empty death one that was noble, and counted for something.

Or, they killed it.

I hope they didn't waste the meat.

Tits up. Smoke em if ya got em.

Guinea pig kinda tastes like crocodile. I don't recommend it.

mmmmm...smoked rodent

Dear Sirs,

My name is Hugh G. Goh from Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe. I represent the People for the Ethical Treatment of Smoking Guinea Pigs (PETSGP). You have 24 hours to remove this picture from your Internet site as we feel it denigrates the image of smoking guinea pigs that my firm and I represent. It also conveys a false image that all smoking guinea pigs die from smoking. This, as we all know, in entirely not true, as many guinea pigs die each year from natural causes such as old age, being wrapped in duct tape and used as prophylactics (only in Indianapolis), and being shoved up famous movie star asses.

Please do yourself a favor and comply with our request. Failure to do so in the time allotted will result in our intern Guido "Knuckles" Aiello coming over to your house to collect legal evidence in the form of kneecaps, pinky fingers, and teeth.

The ball is in your court, act accordingly.

Mr. Hugh G. Goh, Esq.
Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe

Alllllllllllllllllright, that sucked!

hehe. Gn'R references suck.

It would be wise to remove that section on Indy otherwise we will be forced to litigate.

I.M. Feltcher Mayor Ind.

If you didn't see NOVA's '"Safer" Cigarettes: A History' check out this link.

I would agree, I was actually hearing a Scotish Mike Myers' voice with a twist of Denis Leary. All part of the great latticework though, eh?

Heh. I dunno if you got mine.

At the end of "Don't Damn Me", track 13 on "Use Your Illusion I", Axl sings:

"Smoke 'em if you got 'em!"

and then screams

"Alllllllllllllllllllllllright, that sucked!"

so it was just me being dorky, not you :)

wait... I *own* some of that dorkdom.

You own Guns N' Roses? :P