Oh the French always know how to do it.

I have to admit, being an avid fan of the sport,  these images make me want to rush out and buy a carton of smokes.

For some reason that wasn’t the intention of this French anti-smoking campaign. “Fumer c’est être l’esclave du tabac”, or  “Smoking, be a slave to tobacco,” is the caption under each photograph.

Needless to say there is a big brouhaha in France over this campaign. The intention was to get people talking.  It didn’t get me talking,  it got me fantasizing something that I’m pretty sure is a federal offense.

Now who would create such provocative images? The answer would be the Association for Nonsmokers’ Rights.

The group’s director Mr Parola says they are not about sex at all:

“The visuals have a sexual connotation, that I can’t deny, but it’s really a way to start a discussion with young people to get them to understand the dangers of smoking.”

Now I’ve done a lot of things, but I’ve never sucked cock and smoked. I’ve eaten and smoked. I am going to have to give a try though.

The marketing company who designed this campaign certainly did get people talking, but I’m not so sure the images I’ve just conjured up are quite what they were thinking off.

Mr Parola continues:

“Traditional advertisements targeting teens don’t affect them. Talking about issues of health, illness or even death, they don’t get it,” the group’s director, Remi Parola, told The Associated Press in an interview. “However, when we talk about submission and dependence, they listen.”

I have to disagree, teens will listen when you start talking about fellatio – the new second base, parents beware.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s an interesting idea, but in my humble view this is what happens when one over intellectualize an idea to the point that it actually sounds like it will work.

How many hours did high level “ad men” huddle around the idea of sexual submission – and really is it submissive to be on one’s knees?

I don’t think they know how hard it is to get a guy off orally sometimes. There ain’t no submissiveness there, just shear determination.

I digress.

Kids listen up, the moral of the story is if you are going to go to second base, make sure you’re a non-smoker, and make sure the business man pays you.