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Animals do their part in anti-smoking campaign 

Billboards with pictures of animals on them are being used to spread anti-smoking messages.

With a grant from the Tennessee Department of Health, billboards featuring a chimpanzee, pig, duck, collie and fawn with cigarettes hanging from their lips or beak are going up in four Cleveland locations. The headline above them reads, "It looks just as stupid when you do it."

It's just part of an anti-tobacco campaign in a state where burley tobacco was once a top cash crop.

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