France prohibits smoking in almost all public public spaces – National

Puff, puff … over?

In a movement to protect his youngest citizens, France has announced that it will determine a national prohibition smoking In all country estates that can be visited by children, which means that your dreams of lounging in a French park with a cigarette are about to go into smoke.

“Where children are, Tobacco must disappear“The French Minister of Health and the family that Catherine Vautrin told Ouest-France on Thursday, and added that the freedom to smoke” ends where the right of children to breathe fresh air starts. “

The prohibition, which will come into effect on 1 July, extends to parks, bus stops and areas near schools, the French Ministry of Health said on Friday, in one step to “to denorm and limit the attractiveness.”

People caught breaking the ban are confronted with fines of up to 135 euros (C $ 210).

And while France is often seen as a country where smoking is à la mode – it is not difficult to imagine that people on a Paris terrace or paved street light up – the country has established increasing limitations on the use of tobacco in recent years.

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Smoking forbidden in places such as playgrounds, airports, train stations, night clubs, restaurants and workplaces are already in force. Hundreds of beaches have not been smoking throughout France for several years.

That said, the iconic café terraces of France are exempt from the new ban, as well as electronic cigarettes.

Currently, no decision has been made to prohibit the sale of cigarettes to younger than 18 years, Vautrin said, but the country is ‘nothing pronunciation for the future’.

Asked for an increase in tobacco tax, she said that is not on the table now.

According to the French monitoring center for drugs and drug addiction23 percent of the French population smokes daily.

The National Committee of France against Smoking says that more than 75,000 smokers die every year from tobacco-related diseases-13 percent of all deaths.

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