MTV Criticized for Promoting Marijuana at Video Music Awards

In a move only somewhat less in the spirit of rock-and-roll than the MTV Video Music Awards themselves, anti-smoking advocates the Reality Effort, the driving force behind those dangers-of-cigarette commercials developed to instill a sense of fear in viewers so strong that some might really count on cigarettes to get their nerves under control post-viewing, have criticized MTV and complained to MTV’s moms and dad company that the current Video Music Award broadcast glorified making use of marijuana.

The Truth Effort seems irked to have actually paid to run two anti-smoking advertisements throughout the MTV VMAs on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2015. Billboard reported that Eric Acshe, the chief marketing officer of the Fact Effort whose surname’s assumed pronunciation is fairly paradoxical, has specified, “It is entirely reasonable for audiences to be puzzled, after hearing so much about cannabis throughout the VMA broadcast, to see an effective ad about...

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