In a movement to protect their young citizens, France has announced that it will do so and act throughout the country of smoking in all outdoor places that children can frequent, which means that their dreams of resting in a French park with a cigarette are about to go to smoke.
“Where there are children, tobacco must disappear,” said France’s Minister of Health and Family on Thursday, Catherine Vautrin told Ous-France on Thursday, adding that the freedom to smoke “ends where the children’s right to breathe fresh air begins.
The prohibition, which will enter into force on July 1, extends to parks, bus stops and areas near schools, said the French Ministry of Health on Friday, in a movement to “denormalize tobacco and limit its attraction.”
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And although France is seen as a country where smoking is fashionable, it is not difficult to imagine the people who illuminate on a Parisian terrace or a cobblestone, the country has acted and acted increasing restrictions on the use of tobacco in recent years.
Smoking prohibitions in places such as playgrounds, airports, train stations, nightclubs, restaurants and workplaces are already in force. In addition, hundreds of beaches throughout France have been not smoking for several years.
That said, the iconic terraces of France coffee are exempt from the new prohibition, as well as electronic cigarettes.
Currently, no decision has been made to prohibit cigarette sales to young people under 18, Vautrin said, but the country “does not rule out anything for the future.”
When asked about an increase in tobacco taxes, he said that is not on the table at this time.
According to the French drug monitoring center and drug addiction, 23 percent of the French population smokes daily.
The National Committee of France against smoking says that more than 75,000 smokers die each year of tobacco related to 13 percent of all deaths