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Anti-smoking ads spark scandal in France

World Feb. 25, 2010 - 07:09AM JST ( 10 )

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MrUSAFeb. 25, 2010 - 12:45PM JST

These ads are not sexually explicit at all. Looks like the minister has too much time on her hands.
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The758Feb. 25, 2010 - 01:30PM JST

Haha, sounds funny (and I'm a smoker)
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AzraelFeb. 25, 2010 - 01:43PM JST

I think an ad that (further) sexualizes smoking would most likely backfire into attracting more people to cigarette addiction. Sadly, popular culture worships sex and as it's common knowledge, sex sells.
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skipthesongFeb. 25, 2010 - 04:06PM JST

No ad that gets humans off that disgusting habit can ever be wrong. As for being a slave, I have to agree. If you smoke, you are a slave. I have a friend who at late night at my house, knowing he can't smoke in my house, would actually walk up to Nishi Azabu crossing so he could smoke come back for a drink. What a slave.
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TriumvereFeb. 25, 2010 - 04:21PM JST

A case of trying a bit too hard, pit would seem...
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IvanCoughalotFeb. 25, 2010 - 05:31PM JST

anyone got a link to these ads? It would be nice to make up our own minds about what they look like.
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HeyLarsFeb. 25, 2010 - 05:58PM JST

The ad with the girl is a bad idea. Somebody seems to think that most women don't actually like giving oral. I question whether that person is truly French!

The one with the teenage boy might give most men and boys a negative reaction though. Associating a cigarette with a tube steak could keep many away from cigarettes.
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LIBERTASFeb. 25, 2010 - 07:05PM JST

Pictures here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/24/french-oral-sex-anti-smokn474909.html but they're mild compared to Canadian blood & guts cancer photos.
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TheQuestionFeb. 26, 2010 - 12:18AM JST

The ads are different but far from ban worthy. If the pictures featured actual oral sex to a man with a cigarette in place of his face, that would be scandal worthy.
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goddogFeb. 26, 2010 - 12:25AM JST

French kid on his back smoking some one else? Sounds typical of the French. Was the puff of white smoke looking like a waving flag?