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Macabre Soda Ad Finds Suicide Funny

By Erin R. Brown | December 17, 2008 | 15:25

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One “very very very lonely calorie” uses poison, among other methods, to commit suicide in a PepsiCo advertising campaign in Germany that has been pulled amidst controversy over its horrific depictions. 

The ad, aimed at generating sales for "Pepsi Max," the company’s one calorie drink, has drawn ire from people whose lives have been affected by suicide. Pepsi apologized to one woman via Twitter, a text message-based social networking service.

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