Smoking Towers

This poster was designed in the hope a local anti-smoking group would use it in its campaign:

View large image The poster superimposed images of the WTC over two cigarettes. The artist claimed the image was created to generate awareness and therefore wasn't in poor taste:

The visual is fresh in people's minds so it has an impact ... four million people die [each year] from smoking.

He then went on to say tha commercial use would have been in poor taste.

Wouldn't selling to the anti-smoking lobby be commerce?

At least the chairman of the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health realised the poster was inappropriate:

I have no doubt that what [he] has done is quite imaginative but we have to walk a fine line, and we want people to look at tobacco deaths on its own merits. I think there is huge scope to introduce punchy, dramatic images without using the World Trade Centre.

Tacky.

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