En Twas differs in Jardin du Luxembourg, in the center of Paris. Tourists who are looking for relaxations in the shade of chestnut trees do not know why. On the other hand, pensioners who talk along with a small copy of the statue of freedom know about it and are satisfied with this: no one smokes more in this park. However, if you are looking specifically, there is a smoker. This is called Ibrahim and comes from Turkey.
Currently, he visits Paris with his girlfriend and pulls the smoke of cigarettes in the lungs during a break in green. Right next to the children’s playground. He did not know that this was forbidden throughout France since last Sunday, and a double violation, he says, says a little guilty. He wants to express and throw his half a cigarette. But he must leave this, because it will be the third reason for the fine.
No, there is no such thing in his house in Turkey, says Ibrahim, who is surprised by the list of prohibitions related to tobacco consumption. The rule determined by the Minister of Health Katherine Vautrin is actually easy to understand: wherever the children are, there should be no tobacco smoke. Already existing smoking zones (restaurants, hotels, bars, discos, schools, offices and other work rooms) are expanding to green areas, sports facilities and the environs of schools and kindergartens.
But what clearly offers the most conversation is a ban on smoking on the beach. And there are also protesters: in all the media, both on the Atlantic coast and on the Mediterranean and on the lakes, smokers are mostly evil. “This is a little exaggerated,” says a woman named Claudin in a Francoblu report in Basksky Ange. “Since I smoke the box per day and depends, it really becomes a problem if I am not allowed to smoke on the beach!” She explains. You also always have a small container for ash with me.
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Belmondo without tilt in the corner of the mouth?
Unfortunately, not all smokers are so convenient. This confirms on the same beach that Benjamin, the father of two babies: “Of course, tobacco smoke is violated, but, first of all, all the tips that the children take in the hand.” Lucy Padovani from the Surfrider NGO Foundation knows how to sing a sad song about this: every year, volunteers who need to do better, have to collect hundreds of thousands of cigarette cigarette butts on the beaches with enormous efforts. Because they are really dangerous. The only tip can poison up to 500 liters of water, and, according to researchers, it can contain up to 7,000 different harmful or toxic substances, also confirms the microbiologist Marianne Kvemeyur.
Neither in the Jardin du Luxembourg, nor on the beaches are not immediately intended for violation if violation violation. According to the government, law enforcement officers who should have controlled compliance with more stringent rules should give smokers whose mentality, however, is quite difficult to change.
France, it seems, has a particular problem, because this mentality is not only attached to individual habits, but also deep in French culture. Like Jean-Paul Belmondo or Jeanne Moro with their smoking, many stars of the last canvas without a cigarette in the corner of his mouth could not imagine.
From 2015 to 2019, according to the cancer league, there were twice as much as in Hollywood productions of 90 percent of French tobacco films. How do minors should understand that smoking is not “glamorous”, but completely a passenger?
