I am shocked at the French ban......

[samintx]

no smoking in railway, govt building etc and in a year no smoking in bars,hotels etc.

I am mazed the French would ban this terrible habit. I'm glad, tho

[mikebw]

yeah, I would have guessed the French to be the last to impose such a ban.

[voodoopenguin]

[quote mikebw]yeah, I would have guessed the French to be the last to impose such a ban.
why?

[spearmint]

37% of French smoke. It's going to be rough.

[voodoopenguin]

Quoting from the link provided by samintx:

1) But France was also in the forefront in the anti-smoking movement in Europe, passing the toughest legislation on the Continent in 1991. Smoking was banned in most public places, including restaurants, except in designated areas. Tobacco products were required to carry health warnings.


2) Still, about 12 million of the French — about 20 percent of the population — are smokers, according to official government figures, and more than 70,000 people die in France every year from smoking-related illnesses and secondhand smoke.

[OWC Jamie]

[mikebw]

Without reading the article, I would have thought that since smoking had generally been a fashionable thing to do, and France/Paris are widely viewed as being fashionable as well that the two would not easily be separable.

I didn't know that France was in fact rather proactive with such health issues.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

There's been a movement afoot in France for many years now to restrict public smoking.

[Seacrest]

Now if they could just enforce the 'must bathe' requirement...

I keed, I keed!

Sacre Bleu!