Pub­li­cis for­goes light­heart­ed hol­i­day mes­sage for more se­ri­ous HPV warn­ing with celebri­ty guest

When is an an­nu­al hol­i­day greet­ing more like a dis­ease aware­ness ad? That’s the case in this year’s video from French-based ad­ver­tis­ing hold­ing com­pa­ny Pub­li­cis Groupe fea­tur­ing chair­man and CEO Arthur Sadoun and his pre­de­ces­sor Mau­rice Lévy.

The typ­i­cal­ly jovial in­ter­ac­tion be­tween the two quick­ly takes a se­ri­ous turn to HPV can­cers and vac­cines — along with a guest star ap­pear­ance by ac­tor Michael Dou­glas.

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