ATLANTA, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- This year's graphic, emotional ads showing real people living with smoking-related diseases generated 150,000 calls to smoking quitlines, U.S. officials say.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Tips From Former Smokers campaign -- which ran for 16 weeks, March 4 through June 23 -- produced more than 150,000 additional calls to (800) QUIT-NOW, which links callers to their state quitlines.