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Group In A Huff Over Wendy's Ad

Wendy's is drawing some fire for a TV commercial that shows floating after inhaling helium, with one group charging it sends a bad message to children about inhalants.

The spot, which has Wendy's patrons standing next to a pressurized tank talking in high-pitched voices and then rising in the air, is tagged "filling up with just anything, that's wrong." A Wendy's spokesman says the company has gotten a small number of calls and for now, the ad is staying put. He says it depicts an absurd scene and is "a situation that is not real because people don't float on the ceiling."

But Harvey Weiss, director of the National Inhalant Prevention Council, claims it could give youngsters "inappropriate ideas." Some 20 people contacted him to complain about the ad, he says, including a Pennsylvania woman whose son died from "huffing," i.e. inhaling various chemicals to get high.

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