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Published: August 27, 2008
Ad claims hot dogs are risky
The Cancer Project spot may overstate the possible harm
By Lindsey Tanner
CHICAGO — A new TV commercial shows kids eating hot dogs in a school cafeteria and one little boy's haunting lament: "I was dumbfounded when the doctor told me I have late-stage colon cancer.”

It's a startling revelation in an ad that vilifies one of America 's most beloved, if maligned, foods, while stoking fears about a dreaded disease.

But the boy doesn't have cancer. Neither do two other kids in the ad ...

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