Racy French Anti-Smoking Ad – A racy ad campaign by a French anti-smoking group has caused an uproar in France over the suggestive photos.
The racy anti-smoking ads show reluctant male and female teens with their heads held to a man’s crotch and a cigarette in their mouths.
“Smoking is being a slave to tobacco,” the ads read.
Smoldering feminist and family organizations have lashed the campaign for using images of underage sex to sell a message, and some critics plan to file complaints with the French advertising watchdog agency.
But the ad agency behind the posters insist that only a shock campaign can reach the young teens whose cigarette consumption has zoomed 66% in a few years.
“The message here is that tobacco is a form of submission. In the popular imagination, oral sex is the perfect symbol of submission,” said a company spokesman.
The racy anti-tobacco ads will be shown in newspapers, bars and clubs.
And that’s the latest from Action News about the Racy French Anti-Smoking Ad.
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February 28th, 2010 at 8:07 am
Love it Love it Love it
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:29 pm
I love the smoking advertisement and they do things differently in France
March 4th, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Who knows what is the right thing to do?
May 7th, 2010 at 11:58 am
Its bad for u. i know this amazingy
February 3rd, 2011 at 1:23 am
I don’t understand how this is un-feminist. There’s a boy there too. Which I think makes it doubly effective, now they’re tapping into people’s fear of homosexuals as well.