Anti-Smoking Campaign Shocks With Oral Sex Reference

A series of avertisements in France, by the Non-Smokers' Rights Association, have caused controversy, because they show youths with a cigarette in their mouth, on their knees before an adult.


The Ads have the caption: "Smoking Means Being a Slave to Tobacco."

The anti-smoking group defended itself by saying:. "The first cigarette is often viewed as a rite of passage toward the adult world and an emancipation. The campaign seeks to reverse that impression and make people aware that smoking isn't a defiance of authority, but instead a sign of submission and naiveté — a behavioral, psychological and physical submission to an addictive drug that will control their acts, dirty their bodies and cost them dearly."