This is a quarter page from front page of TOI today. This is the way I guess the ad was meant to sound:
In 2013, I promise to stop habits like smoking and chewing tobacco, instead (I will) switch to Nicorette so that I can kick habits which I (presumably) want to get rid of. Fair enough?
Now read carefully and unless my English is feeble, this is how it actually sounds:
In 2013, I promise to stop smoking. If I don’t quit smoking (for my own bloody well reasons), then I am most definitely going to start chewing tobacco from tomorrow. And it says it twice (read fineprint below as well).
The ad copy guy should be fired, it has to be a guy (and not a girl) who can be so shabby for a first page ad in TOI. I have to include my favorite peeve into this post as well 
, this is what phooking phasebook does to our collective use of the English language.
The Mayans are dead, long live the Morons.
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