Snoop Dogg, advertising wizard

What a joke, he fooled us all: Last week Snoop Dogg announced

Does your role model really need to quit smoking? That would be like reality stars suddenly stopping getting tattoos – or Gordan Ramsay stopping swearing.

Of course not. A few days later the rapper called it quits: it was just a PR stunt for a smoke-free fireplace.

The tough gangster rapper.

Promotes a smoke-free fireplace.

So. It’s not the first time that badass Snoop Dogg has promoted something that isn’t even that gangster-ish. We remember the following campaigns:

With turtle.

With BFF Martha Stewart.

With an animated general in the passenger seat.

(Anyway.)

The art that apparently only Snoop Dogg has mastered: shooting all these campaigns without looking absolutely ridiculous.

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