While the Tobacco Free Month challenge began a few days ago, we take a look back at a popular culture that celebrates cigarettes more than healthy lungs.
I know, it’s bad. The Tobacco Free Month challenge started on November 1, and here is a hymn to cigarettes. It’s true that French-language songs are full of these celebrations of the cigarette – certainly, not all as insolent as I smoke by Brigitte Fontaine in 2001. In the poetic and sensual genre, Melina Mercouri also recorded a masterpiece.
In the second episode of These songs that make the news broadcast this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
Brigitte Fontaine, I smoke, 2001
Melina Mercouri, Cigarette smoke, 1972
Marcel Amont, Tomorrow I stop smoking, 1985
Richard Gotainer, Bye bye cigarette, 1992
Renaud, Stop smoking, 2006
Femmouzes T, Smokers-non-smokers, 2005
Jul, Listen to this, 2015
Aldebert, The Lady of Camel Light, 2005
Sabine Paturel, The stupidities, 1987
Eric Charden, 14 years the Gauloises, 1974
Yves Simon, The Blue Gauls, 1973
Léo Ferré, The dog, 1969
Léo Ferré, When I smoke something other than Celtics, 1977
Léo Ferré, The Gaul, 1964
Léo Ferré, Gypsy, 1972
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