Just like war, serfdom and the plague, some things are just better left in the past. In a country where 80% of the population is against smoking and littering the air with pollution that damages the lungs and health of children up to adults, France is finally inching closer to becoming a smoke-free zone. Yea I know, smoking is cool and lung cancer, heart attacks and emphysema are really great fun as well so thanks, but no thanks. The Big Tobacco pro-pollution fascists love claiming the rights of individuals...sure, what about non-smokers who have to breath that stuff? Don't we have individual rights too or are they just saying that their individual rights are more important than those who don't want to breathe smoke?
Great job though and I can hardly wait to live in a smoke-free country. Us 80% people are smiling with this news.
But as in other European countries, smoking in public increasingly has fallen out of favor here. This week, after a five-month governmental inquiry, a parliamentary committee approved a proposal to ban smoking in public areas.Under the measure, cafes, hotels, restaurants, discos and casinos could designate spaces for smoking only if they could be hermetically sealed areas, furnished with air-extraction systems and subject to extremely rigorous health norms.
