Armpit Billboard Ditched: Unilever's Dove Relents to New Jersey Outcry

Armpit Billboard Ditched: Unilever's Dove Relents to New Jersey Outcry
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TRENTON, NJ - FEBRUARY 25: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie delivers his budget address for fiscal year 2015 to the Legislature, February 25, 2014 at the Statehouse in Trenton, New Jersey. The $34.4 billion state budget proposes increased spending for schools and healthcare and also includes the largest -ever payment to the public worker pension fund. (Photo by Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images)

An armpit billboard has been ditched by Dove soap after New Jersey residents made a stink over the "offensive" and "insulting" nature of the advertisement, which refers to the Garden State as the "armpit of America."

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