You know the ones I mean. Pharmaceutical companies and anti-tobacco campaigns seem to be the worst.[ul]A four or five year old boy says, “Grandmom couldn’t come with us. She couldn’t breathe right”–until she takes some new anti-asthma wonder drug.[li]Or we see a goldfish flopping on a table while another little kid tells us "When I have an asthma attack I feel like a fish with no water. Sometimes my parents have to take me to the hospital.And the worst…another little four or five year old boy is contemplating an empty cradle because, as we infer from the[/li]subtitles, his mom was a CIGARETTE SMOKER, and there’s ‘something wrong’ with his baby brother, who hasn’t been brought home from the hospital yet. Probably he has three eyes and and extra leg or two. “Where’s my baby brother?” the young star of this commercial asks during the fade-out.[/ul]
Is it me, or has this sort of thing gotten way out of hand lately?