Do humorous cancer campaigns help or hinder the cause?

UBC marketing professor Charles Weinberg commented on the trend for using humour to promote awareness of diseases affecting reproductive body parts.

“The question is, once they have your attention, what happens after that? Does that attention transfer to the cause?” Weinberg told the Globe and Mail. “The danger is that you spend so much effort going for the joke, but there won’t really be a link between your cause and the joke.”