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Paris – France will ban smoking on beaches, in public gardens and near schools from July 1st to protect young people from tobacco and to limit the influence of smokers on them.

“Tobacco has to disappear where there are children,” said Health Minister Catherine Vautrin in an interview with the French newspaper Ouest-France on Thursday. Vautrin emphasized that freedom to “smoke,” ends, where the right of the children, begin to breathe clean air “.

Central and high schools will also be affected by the ban, in particular to “prevent students from smoking from their schools,” said Vautrin.

Every American visitor in France will be impressed by the number of smokers in general and in particular the number of young people blow away on café terraces.

But tobacco consumption in France was actually on the Waste In recent years. Smoking has been at the lowest level since the 1990s, with 23% of the adult population illuminating every day. Tobacco consumption also drops 16% of the 17-year-olds in young people NUR to smoke while it was 25% six years ago.

The expansion of smoke -free zones is one of the measures described in a national plan to reduce tobacco consumption and the achievement of a tobacco -free production by 2032.

Almost 7,000 smoke -free zones have already been created by 1,600 voluntary cities, including beaches, parks, skiists and areas around schools.

The new measure has strong public support. According to a survey for the French league against cancer78% of those surveyed wanted to abolish cigarettes in new public spaces.

Daniel Thomas, a spokesman for the French Society of Tobacco Studies, called it “an excellent measure” that expands the space for den moral tobacco consumption.

France banned smoking in public buildings in 2007, a ban, that was extended At cafés, restaurants and night clubs in 2008. Many believed that the ban in view of the place where the Smoky Café in French cultural tradition would be difficult.

While it was immediately successful, smokers simply wandered outside and turned the sidewalk to the place to avoid when they are a non -smoker.

The French Ministry of Health Attributes around 200 deaths a day on tobacco consumption, which makes it the leading avoidable cause of death.

The social costs of the tobacco are estimated at € 156 billion per year. It is also a large pollutant that has thrown 20,000 to 25,000 tons of cigarette rods annually.

The city of Paris has just started a new campaign to reduce the 2 billion cigarette butts on the streets every year.

The new ban does not apply to e-cigarettes that have increased in the past five years. 6% of adults say they use them now.

On a park bench under a tree in the 15th arrondissement in Paris, the 26-year-old student Ouadere dasvet enjoys smoke. Children play nearby in a jungle fitness studio. Although he cannot do this after June, Deavet says that he is for the measure.

“We can always find other smoking spots such as outdoor cafes,” he says. “It hurts children, so we shouldn’t do it around them.”

Deavet says he has become smokers after playing around with cigarettes with his teenage friends. He believes that the measure could have a major influence.

“I think the restriction of the places to smoke could get many people to stop.”