Hotline: The ASA bans anti-smoking ad campaign

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned the Department of Health's anti-smoking ad campaign featuring people with hooks through their faces. The TV, poster and print executions, created by Miles Calcraft Briginshaw Duffy, attracted 774 complaints and were deemed distressing by the body.

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