The lady with the hole in the throat on that commercial died.

[RammerJammer]

ATLANTA (AP) - A North Carolina woman featured prominently in a graphic government ad campaign to get people to stop smoking died Monday of cancer.

Terrie Hall died at a hospital in Winston-Salem, N.C., federal officials said. She was 53.

"She was a public health hero," said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which conducted the campaign. "She may well have saved more lives than most doctors do."

A former smoker whose voice box was removed years ago, Hall took a leading role in the campaign that showed how smoking-related cancer ravages the body. Officials believe the "Tips from Former Smokers" campaign led as many as 100,000 Americans smokers to quit.

Hall's first ad showed her putting on a wig, putting in false teeth and covering a hole in her throat with a scarf. It was the campaign's most popular spot by far, receiving more than 2.8 million views on YouTube.

It was the federal public health agency's largest and starkest anti-smoking push, and its first national advertising effort.

In another ad, the Lexington resident addressed the camera in the buzzing sound of her artificial voice box. She advised smokers to make a video of themselves reading a children's book or singing a lullaby. "I wish I had. The only voice my grandson's ever heard is this one," her electric voice growled.

Hall's oral and throat cancer was caused by the cigarette smoking she began in high school, CDC officials said. This summer, the cancer spread to her brain.

 

[illadope]

Good for her, now people will (possibly) listen to her message instead of laughing/cringing at it.

 

[Remote]

They sure went pretty hard with the hyperbole.
No, she did not save more lives than doctors do.

That said, at least she did play a role in trying to get people to quit smoking.

 

[#1 pick]

Damn, just 53. I assumed she was 70.

 

[AAKing23]

RIP but damn that commercial scared the fukk out of me

 

[klientel]

 

[Ronald McDonald]

shyt creeped me out had to change the channel whenever that commercial came on

she looks exactly like an older version of this girl i know

 

[MikelArteta]

smoke brehs

 

[Money Be Green]

smoke cigarettes brehs

Fixed

 

[MAKAVELI25]

I don't understand the appeal of cigarettes. How can you live with the knowledge that you're slowly killing yourself? This goes for those of you obese nikkaz/bytches who can't stay away from the sweets too

 

[Dooby]

Looks like she won the warhead challenge

 

[the cac mamba]

 

[thoushallhustle]

I don't understand the appeal of cigarettes. How can you live with the knowledge that you're slowly killing yourself? This goes for those of you obese nikkaz/bytches who can't stay away from the sweets too

everyone that smokes doesnt get cancer. my grandpa smoked for awhile and hes 85 and strong as an ox..

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

How did she give head in her private sexual life?

I wanna know

 

[Heelish]

How did she give head in her private sexual life?

I wanna know

Deep throat