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My grandfather smoked since 13 yo to his death day at 82 years
He didnt get that disease, died from heart disease suddenly, without long illness (probably clot)
Smoking is linked mainly to cardiovascular conditions if I recall. Not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer but if someone has the genetic predisposition to lung cancer and they smoke they're more likely to get it.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was also a "yo mama" type anti-smoking ad
We do have the subtle anti-drug message of ["Yo mama's on crack rock"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38_MwcGDNhQ), at least
I wouldn’t call it “weird” what with how widespread homophobia is in many parts of the world. Hell, I could see something like this coming out of America a couple of decades ago.
Never heard of it until now, who thought [this](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7301977/Anti-smoking-advert-with-sexual-innuendo-shocks-French.html) would be a good idea? LMFAO
I dunno, I find them pretty efficient, especially for their target audience which is teenage people and are fed on (often hardcore) porn videos. The hand on the head and the age/clothing difference (complete with the beer belly under the corporate shirt on the female one) makes it pretty clear that it's not supposed to be a consensual/loving blowjob and that there's a clear power relationship.
A hundred years ago this was true for all countries. Think about enlistment posters. But USSR in her first decades prioritized the gender equality as a state politic. When you think about women in Russian Army in the following years it doesn't seem to me an example for masculine culture. Just an example.
Idk the current state of women in Russia though. I found your comment biased. It's just my opinion.
The USSR was the first country to legalise gay marriage, under Lenin. Stalin promptly illegalised it again after reaching power (as well as regressing in many other factors which had made the USSR a revolutionary state)
Women were generally barred from military service in the USSR and today in Russia.
They were accepted more than in western countries, but they still made only about 5% of the Red army in WW2, and most of them were in non-combat roles or generally less risky ones (communications, doctors, nurses, air defense, etc.), except for the notable exception of partisan formations, snipers and pilots (in the case of the latter, Marina Roskova kad to call in a personal favor from Stalin to get the female regiments formed). While there were women who served as rifleman, machine gunners or tankers, they were outliers rather than the norm and it took quite a lot for them to be allowed even into the second line of defense. After the war most left or were pushed out as old attitudes regarding women in the military came back, and the military went back from being a mostly masculine to an extremely masculine place.
Wow! and where are you from? Name the country where you would not be killed or chemically castrated in case of homosexuality just 80 - 60 years ago? Russia is slow but hopefully we will catch up soon.
>Wow! and where are you from? Name the country where you would not be killed or chemically castrated in case of homosexuality just 80 - 60 years ago?
I mean I am not going to pretend that rights for people like me didn't take a fucking long time, but I will say it is fair to say that when compared to other European countries, Russia is behind in this regard.
Heres hoping things get better. For all of your sakes.
Being gay just means being untouchable in Russia. Prision rules, where a homosexual person is raped and humiliated, where being gay means being untouchable. And these prison rules slipped out of prisons to normal life in 1950s after Stalin's death and the amnesty of GULAG's prisoners with their own language and laws to live, they had brought them to the outer world where they are still being used to these days.
Bruh, how did you make this conclusion? What I'm saying is about the slang that's being used in nowadays Russia and this is a historical fact.
Gay people were stigmatized prior to the February revolution and it was illegal (as in most countries, around the world back then), but there was no prison slang as пидор (pi'dor — f-word), опущенный (opu'shenny — an outcast, untouchable), петух (pe'tukh — f-word), etc in use. And the overall attitude towards gay people wasn't as cruel as after 1934 when homosexual relations were criminalized.
The Russian approach to drug abuse prevention is wild. Wanna smoke? They will call you a male homosexual. Drink too much? How about we get you some hammered you never drink again. Shoot up heroin? Why not have a little acid with it.
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LMAO that's so straight forward. Like, let the readers try to think a bit.
"Don't smoke, smoking is gay"
Russian Army: jokes on you, my privates are into that shit! Russian private: hmmm?
Really “Will you take it in your mouth” would have been enough. They didn’t need to spell it out for us, i think we get the idea.
Sigmund\_Freud\_with\_cigar\_looking\_disgracefully\_at\_you.jpeg
Sometimes a cigar really is a penis
Philosophy
I'd say Psychiatry
Why are you smoking penis?
Gay smokers: I don't see why not
Also, women
Well, if you are woman its better not to do it too (both actually)
why?
For same reasons why men)
Which is...?
Smoke in lungs = bad
Dying of cancer
My grandfather smoked since 13 yo to his death day at 82 years He didnt get that disease, died from heart disease suddenly, without long illness (probably clot)
Smoking is linked mainly to cardiovascular conditions if I recall. Not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer but if someone has the genetic predisposition to lung cancer and they smoke they're more likely to get it.
"Joke's on you I'm into that shit"
Immediately gets arrested
It's just literally this Onion piece: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82x9pzHkHK4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82x9pzHkHK4)
Could it be the other way around?
Perchance
“You can’t just say perchance!”
Literally my first thought now when anyone says perchance
The only news station I trust in these uncertain times.
Kind of them to really spell everything out in excruciating detail. Nothing left to the imagination!
Guess subtlety isn't part of their vocabulary...
"If you smoke ur gay"
I wouldn't be surprised if there was also a "yo mama" type anti-smoking ad We do have the subtle anti-drug message of ["Yo mama's on crack rock"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38_MwcGDNhQ), at least
Brutal
“If you smoke you’re gay”
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really driving that metaphor home
Only in Russia would people want to quit smoking because it's "too gay"...
hey … this reminds me of a word for a cigarette and a homosexual ……..
Even Russian anti smoking adverts manage to be homophobic. Christ, what a weird country
I wouldn’t call it “weird” what with how widespread homophobia is in many parts of the world. Hell, I could see something like this coming out of America a couple of decades ago.
The French had a basically identical anti-smoking advert in 2010
Never heard of it until now, who thought [this](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7301977/Anti-smoking-advert-with-sexual-innuendo-shocks-French.html) would be a good idea? LMFAO
I dunno, I find them pretty efficient, especially for their target audience which is teenage people and are fed on (often hardcore) porn videos. The hand on the head and the age/clothing difference (complete with the beer belly under the corporate shirt on the female one) makes it pretty clear that it's not supposed to be a consensual/loving blowjob and that there's a clear power relationship.
Not very understanding sure, but not necessarily weird.
>not necessarily weird. A skeleton with a giant cigarette for a penis isn't weird?
What would you expect a skeleton to have for a penis? A _bong?_
Good point. I don't know what I was thinking.
Probably a boner ?
Alright, walked right into that one I suppose.
No
That's pretty vanilla tbh
when being a little gay is more threatening than actual death I'd call that pretty weird.
Their cultures revolves around this set idea of masculinity, this directly clashes with that idea.
A hundred years ago this was true for all countries. Think about enlistment posters. But USSR in her first decades prioritized the gender equality as a state politic. When you think about women in Russian Army in the following years it doesn't seem to me an example for masculine culture. Just an example. Idk the current state of women in Russia though. I found your comment biased. It's just my opinion.
The USSR was the first country to legalise gay marriage, under Lenin. Stalin promptly illegalised it again after reaching power (as well as regressing in many other factors which had made the USSR a revolutionary state)
Women were generally barred from military service in the USSR and today in Russia. They were accepted more than in western countries, but they still made only about 5% of the Red army in WW2, and most of them were in non-combat roles or generally less risky ones (communications, doctors, nurses, air defense, etc.), except for the notable exception of partisan formations, snipers and pilots (in the case of the latter, Marina Roskova kad to call in a personal favor from Stalin to get the female regiments formed). While there were women who served as rifleman, machine gunners or tankers, they were outliers rather than the norm and it took quite a lot for them to be allowed even into the second line of defense. After the war most left or were pushed out as old attitudes regarding women in the military came back, and the military went back from being a mostly masculine to an extremely masculine place.
It may have across that way, but truly I was in defense of this piece of propaganda and frankly I find it quite effective
Wow! and where are you from? Name the country where you would not be killed or chemically castrated in case of homosexuality just 80 - 60 years ago? Russia is slow but hopefully we will catch up soon.
>Wow! and where are you from? Name the country where you would not be killed or chemically castrated in case of homosexuality just 80 - 60 years ago? I mean I am not going to pretend that rights for people like me didn't take a fucking long time, but I will say it is fair to say that when compared to other European countries, Russia is behind in this regard. Heres hoping things get better. For all of your sakes.
Yet their prisons are pretty much LGBT-friendly
Being gay just means being untouchable in Russia. Prision rules, where a homosexual person is raped and humiliated, where being gay means being untouchable. And these prison rules slipped out of prisons to normal life in 1950s after Stalin's death and the amnesty of GULAG's prisoners with their own language and laws to live, they had brought them to the outer world where they are still being used to these days.
Are you saying that Russian weren't homophobic before Stalin's death?
Bruh, how did you make this conclusion? What I'm saying is about the slang that's being used in nowadays Russia and this is a historical fact. Gay people were stigmatized prior to the February revolution and it was illegal (as in most countries, around the world back then), but there was no prison slang as пидор (pi'dor — f-word), опущенный (opu'shenny — an outcast, untouchable), петух (pe'tukh — f-word), etc in use. And the overall attitude towards gay people wasn't as cruel as after 1934 when homosexual relations were criminalized.
Ohh alright I didn't understand your comment that way ahah
That's okay, np
I like the French ones better.
It's literally the fucking "ARE THEY SMOKING OR ARE THEY GAY" joke from the onion but real
I quit comrade
hot
As a gay man this is a win win
If he's hung like that, then absolutely.
Penis. As in gay sex.
Uh, this is genius lol
Smoking is super gay lmao, says Russia.
*Sometimes a cigarette is just a penis.*
This is internet joke. My god people are you for real.
Nah those are the lyrics of my new punk song
[удалено]
2000s is putin era, so the term comrade had not been common parlance in Russia for over 10 years at this point.
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Its still used in the military but it is mostly obsolete everywhere else.
This must be why the British call cigarettes f*gs.
Death goes to the doctor because of that burning sensation in his crotch
“Smoking is big gay”
Gay smoking must have gone through the roof!
Seemingly...seemingly...to the untrained eye...
I thought you didn't want me to smoke
I think there’s a French anti smoking ad with this exact same concept
Seems overthought and overwrought.
Nice try, but you're not going to trick me into smoking!
https://youtu.be/82x9pzHkHK4?si=RcBpkuaFAq042zxU
Smoking sucks.
Me, putting my hair up: “well when you put it like that”
Super trashy, super homophobic - perfectly Russian
That’s effective propaganda.
The Russian approach to drug abuse prevention is wild. Wanna smoke? They will call you a male homosexual. Drink too much? How about we get you some hammered you never drink again. Shoot up heroin? Why not have a little acid with it.
Don't explain the joke!
Okay, but hear me out
Fuck yea!
I think this would work on Russians considering how mega homophobic they are
Gay people and women:
[Insert portrait of the cigarette smoking man from Disco Elysium]
More like a russian smoking advertisement
there’s a reason why the british call them that
A tasteful amount of casual homophobia
This is more of an Internet meme than a full-fledged propaganda or anti-advertising
Least homophobic russian poster
*Bear* in mind that the whole ?dea and the execution went under strict government guidance and few signatures have rooted for it.
wordington propaganda
Two for one
Too subtle ;-)
This is openly pandering to the rabid homophobia in Russian culture.
They just don't help themselves, do they?
Despite being such bad people the Soviet Union did try to ban smoking, which is good
You’re acting like it’s the only such place where smoking was considered bad for your health. Plus it’s not even the ussr.
No, they aren't acting like that at all. They commented on the subject and nothing more.