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Woman in graphic anti-smoking ad dies from cancer

September 17, 2013 / iv:54 PM / AP

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

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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, manager of the Centers for Illness Control and Prevention, which conducted the campaign. "She may well have saved more lives than most doctors do."

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A onetime smoker whose vocalization box was removed years agone, Hall took a leading part in the entrada that showed how smoking-related cancer ravages the body. Officials believe the "Tips from One-time Smokers" campaign led as many as 100,000 Americans smokers to quit.

Hall's first advertizement 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 near popular spot by far, receiving more than 2.eight million views on YouTube.

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

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

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