An advertisement in Moscow with the tagline “Smoking kills more people than Obama” has gone viral on social media. Russia’s only liberal MP Dmitry Gudkov, who shared a photograph of the advert on Facebook on Tuesday, wrote in his post, “I’m disgusted and ashamed of what appears on the streets of the Russian capital.” The post has already been shared more than 300 times and received both positive and negative comments.

The advertisement has a picture of United States President Barack Obama smoking a cigarette. The entire tagline reads, “Smoking kills more people than Obama, although he kills lots and lots of people…Don’t smoke, don’t be like Obama.” The ad neither carried any attribution, nor has anyone claimed authorship yet.

This isn't the first time the US president has been targeted in Russia. In January, a Russian art group had replaced the word “hope” in Obama’s 2008 US presidential election poster with “killer” and hung it on a building opposite to the US embassy in Moscow.