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French anti-smoking campaign compares smoking to oral sex

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

February 24, 2010 | 1 min read

A French anti-smoking campaign has caused outraged as it uses sexually suggestive imagery involving teenagers.

The shock poster campaign released by Association Les Droits des Non-fumeurs and created by ad agency BDDP & Fils aims to discourage teenagers from smoking by comparing it to being forced to perform oral sex while the tagline reads "Smoking is to be a slave to tobacco."

French politicians have labeled the campaign as ‘inappropriate’ with a growing call to ban the posters.

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