According to the French smoking is the same as being forced to give strangers oral

The_Minister

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/french-in-uproar-over-oral-sex-antismoking-posters-2076556.html?from=dailynews

French in uproar over oral sex anti-smoking posters
rench advertising companies are often criticised for using sexual images to sell everything from designer spectacles to sweetcorn.

Now, for the first time, a controversy has erupted in France over the use of sexually suggestive posters as a deterrent.

A campaign to discourage young people from smoking shows male and female teenagers kneeling in front of a man, as if being forced to have oral sex. A cigarette takes the place of the man's sexual organ. The caption reads: "Smoking is to be a slave to tobacco."

The campaign, which was devised for a pressure group supporting the rights of non-smokers, has been attacked as "scandalous" and "potentially counter-productive" by feminist and pro-family campaigners.

The advertising agency behind the posters says only a shock campaign can halt the rise in smoking amongst 13 to 15-year-olds in France.

Marco de la Fuente, the leader of the project for the BDDP et Fils ad agency, said: "The old arguments – tobacco is bad for you – don't work any more. The message here is that tobacco is a form of submission. In the popular imagination, oral sex is the perfect symbol of submission."

Gérard Audureau, the president of Les Droits des Non-fumeurs (The Rights of Non-smokers), the pressure group which commissioned the ads, said health arguments did not reach teenagers. "Young people think that they are invincible, immortal," he said. "Fear of sexual exploitation worries them more than illness."

Opposition to the ads – to be shown in bars, clubs and newspapers – has been widespread. Florence Montreynaud, of the feminist pressure group Chiennes de Garde (Guard Bitches), said that it was "inadmissible" that an image implying underage sex should be exploited, even in a good cause.

Christiane Terry, of the conservative group Familles de France, said she will lodge a complaint with the French advertising standards watchdog. "Mixing up tobacco dependence and sex is ridiculous and scandalous," she said.

Surveys suggest smoking is, overall, in decline in France but becoming more common among teenagers. The number of French 13 to 15-year-olds who smoke is estimated to have increased by 66 per cent between 2004 and 2008. Almost one in five French 16 to 20-year-olds now smokes, compared to one in 10 a decade ago. However, in the population as a whole 55 billion cigarettes were smoked in 2009, down from 97 billion cigarettes in 1991.

Last year, however, there was a slight increase – 2.6 per cent – in overall smoking as the effect of the 2008 ban on smoking in bars, cafes and restaurants began to wear off.

The non-smokers' rights group says it does not care if adults are shocked by its posters. Mr Audureau said: "Very few anti-smoking campaigns catch the attention of the young. You have to use extreme images to make them take notice."

Source: London Independent

- John Lichfield in Paris

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Who the hell thought that was a good idea?

bonerm

Haha he has a tiny weiner.

RobbieTheRobber

The problem here is the french are fags!




Taxi for rob!

whiskeyman

feminist pressure group Chiennes de Garde (Guard Bitches),

A feminist group calling themselves bitches??

Vive la France!

Delirium

She'll never light the cig that way:p

pikachucheeks

Perhaps the man's size will be indicative as to how off-putting smoking is!

Biggins

The first thoughts that came to mind when I saw the pic was "Come on baby, light my fire".

Boom Boom

how is she expected to perform fellatio when it's clear she's on her smoke break

she'll burn the c0ck of him

DazMarz

Only the French... if it was a Greek ad it would have been a bloke kneeling down...

Wazdakka

That pic would make me want to smoke..

Midnight_EG

Shite pic to be totally honest :mad:

keepkeyyellow

I've just forwared this to all my french friends

Mimikyu

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Bonito

Soooo if I'm ever in France again and I see a girl lighting a smoke I now have permission to whip it out and stick it in her gob?



/books ticket to paris :cool:

drdeadlift

i hate the French

pickarooney

I saw this at lunchtime. Utterly stupid ad.

Cunsiderthis

drdeadlift wrote: »

i hate the French

I'm sure they are all quaking in their boots in that knowledge. I wonder do many other hate the french but are not compelled to tell everyone else?

Bazzy

to be fair your one would get it

Corkfeen

Does this mean that I get oral sex if a girl takes a cigarette off me? Crazy french.

bonerm

Bazzy wrote: »

to be fair your one would get it

What's 'it'? Cancer?

Bazzy

No the pork sword in her mouth

moonpurple

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/french-in-uproar-over-oral-sex-antismoking-posters-2076556.html


well done Frenchie, the camera never lies

:pac:

phasers

THis ad encourages men to smoke if anything

they should use this one, which features an androgynous male

http://www.ladepeche.fr/content/photo/biz/2010/02/24/3766-20100224113429_w350.jpg

bonerm

phasers wrote: »

THis ad encourages men to smoke if anything

they should use this one, which features an androgynous male

http://www.ladepeche.fr/content/photo/biz/2010/02/24/3766-20100224113429_w350.jpg

Replace the cigarette with a crucifix and you've got a ready-made recruitment poster for the Catholic Priesthood.

AnonoBoy

Ooh la la?




Yeah I know it's a sh*t comment but I'm tired so leave me alone.

moonpurple

take a look at the picture used..

summarises the relationship between 15 year old new smokers and the golfing smart alec senior executive of big tobacco...very very well


http://www.herald.ie/multimedia/archive/00518/2402_frenchad_suppl_518705t.jpg

big tobacco needs new smokers as their existing clients die prematurely

ejmaztec

I thought the French only did hand jobs?

Mr Benevolent

It's Guard Dogs, not Guard Bitches. Stupid English journalists.

ejmaztec

Confab wrote: »

It's Guard Dogs, not Guard Bitches. Stupid English journalists.

That would be if it were "chiens", but they've written "chiennes".

antodeco

Im so going to take up smoking if it means Ill get blow jobs

Oneironaut

Can't wait for the anti-second hand smoke campaign.

homerjay2005

lol, thats f*cking funny stuff...those french eh?

pickarooney

ejmaztec wrote: »

That would be if it were "chiens", but they've written "chiennes".

Yeah, but 'chiennes' doesn't have the more popular conotation of 'bitch' in English.

'Guard Sluts' would be closer.

ejmaztec

pickarooney wrote: »

Yeah, but 'chiennes' doesn't have the more popular conotation of 'bitch' in English.

'Guard Sluts' would be closer.

Yeh, you should know:P, but why would a bunch of French feminists be referring to themselves as sluts?

pickarooney

ejmaztec wrote: »

Yeh, you should know:P, but why would a bunch of French feminists be referring to themselves as sluts?

Either it was one of those 'really not thinking it through properly' moments or they're trying to claim it back, NWA style.

General Zod

Guard bitches is the best translation, although it's not literal.

BTW the one in the ad doesn't look too unwilling.

pickarooney

I find the 'popular association of oral sex with submission' baffling to be honest. Is it the 50s again?

Kanye

I wonder how they'd explain my addiction to tuna sandwiches.

And why I also like cheese with them.