One woman's health message is another man's pornography.

And now the difference of opinion could become a House disciplinary matter.

Rep. Don Marostica, R-Loveland, asked House Speaker Terrance Carroll on Friday to determine if a flier left in his office by an anti-smoking activist is a breach of ethics or "just bad behavior and bad judgment."

Stephanie Steinberg, executive director of Smoke-Free Gaming of Colorado, stopped by Marostica's office Thursday to discuss a bill that he was thinking about offering to make Colorado's indoor smoking ban less restrictive. The Loveland Republican had decided earlier in the day that he would not run the bill.

Steinberg said that while talking to one of Marostica's staffers, she showed the woman an ad run by the United Kingdom's National Health Service that linked cigarette smoke to impotence and erectile dysfunction. The caption reads, "Smoking damages the tissues in your penis."

Marostica got a copy of the ad from a 19-year-old male aide and deemed it to be "very inappropriate and offensive material." He went to the House floor Friday morning to speak out about it and said he would not even display the ad for other legislators because of its content.

Then he asked House Speaker Terrance Carroll, D-Denver, if the incident should be considered an ethical matter.

"I don't want someone doing that to your interns and aides," Marostica told colleagues. "I don't know if it was bad judgment on that individual's part or just bad behavior."

Steinberg said she was taken aback at the idea that an ad created by another country's government could be mistaken for a dirty picture. She suggested that if the ad is turning Marostica's face a little red, he should think about what exposure to cigarette smoke can do to discolor someone's lungs.

"That's hysterical," she said of his reaction. "I have pictures of diseased lungs. Would he be offended by that, too? I'm a health advocate, and I want to talk about health."

Rather than apologize, she said she is considering sending copies of the ad to every member of the legislature.