Ethics of the Advertisement “Don’t Talk While He Drives”

Analyze the advertisement “Don’t Talk While He Drives” from an ethical perspective.

You are the editor of a news magazine and have to decide if it is ethical to run the advertisement “Don’t Talk While He Drives”. The ad forms part of a campaign against using your mobile phone while driving. It uses the slogan: “Don’t talk while he drives”, and shows a woman, presumably from India, who averts her face from the phone, which has blood gushing out of it.