French ads compare smoking with oral rape

There's an interesting debate going on in Paris about these new anti-smoking ads, which liken teen cigarette addiction to forced oral sex. The images themselves are mildly scandalous, though they don't quite seem to match with the tagline, "To smoke is to be a slave to tobacco." But beyond their vaguely pornographic motif, the ads have sparked a fascinating and complex discussion about sexual abuse. According to The New York Times, one commenter on the anti-smoking site said the campaign "trivializes sexual abuse—worse, it implies guilt on the part of the abused."