Puff, puff … past?
In one step to protect its youngest citizens, France has announced that it will say goodbye to a nationwide ban on Smoke In all places outdoors that can be frequented by children, their dreams, to laze around with a cigarette in a French park, means rise in smoke.
“Where there are children Tobacco has to disappear“French Minister of Health and Family Catherine Vautrin told Ouest-France on Thursday and added that freedom of” smoking “ends,” where the right of children to breathe fresh air ends. “
The ban that will come into force on July 1 extends to parks, bus stops and areas near schools, the French Ministry of Health said on Friday to “deny tobacco to denilize and to limit its attractiveness”.
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People who have violated the ban are faced with fines of up to 135 euros (210 c $).
And while France is often seen as a country in which smoking is à la mode -it is not difficult to imagine how people illuminate on a Parisian terrace or cobblestone street -the country has enacted increasing restrictions on tobacco consumption in recent years.
Smoking bans at places such as playgrounds, airports, train stations, night clubs, restaurants and jobs are already in force. In addition, hundreds of beaches across France have had non -smokers for several years.
However, the iconic café terraces of France are freed from the new ban, as are electronic cigarettes.
At the moment, no decision was made to ban the sales of cigarettes to young people under the age of 18, said Vautrin, but the country “does not exclude anything for the future”.
When asked about a tobacco tax hike, she said that this is currently not on the table.
After French surveillance center for medicines and drug addiction23 percent of the French population smoke every day.
According to the French National Committee against smoking, more than 75,000 smokers die from tobacco-related illnesses 13 percent of all deaths every year.
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