Extreme Advertising: Expression, Dishonesty, or Plain Ridiculous

As you can see, the above advertisment is talking about how if you eat too much, you may get diabetes, and eventually lose a limb.  It includes a peson who's leg was amputated sitting there.  There's just one issue.  The actor whose picture was used for the ad isn't missing any limbs, and was apparently shocked to find out that he was altered to be used like this as he's worried it may harm his ability to get acting jobs later as people will think (or expect) him to be missing a limb.
A spokesperson for the New York City health department said, 'This issue isn't about one actor but rather the 700,000 New Yorkers who struggle with diabetes, which kills 1,700 people a year and causes amputations in another 3,000.  Advertising to warn the public about health concerns saves lives, and we will continue our efforts to warn New Yorkers about diabetes.'

Still I think that they could've found one of the, uh, 3,000 people who'd had a limb amputated to be the model for the picture.  While this is pretty bad, at least it isn't as bad as UGG's attempts to make UGGS manly (which aren't working).  I will not do myself the discredit of featuring the commercials, or athlete involved here, simply becuase I don't like him that much.  Which teaches two lessons:
People just don't like certain things
Don't pick a poster boy who's hated by about as many to more people than like him.