THE OBSERVER: This week’s restrictions are the latest step towards the country’s target of creating a tobacco-free generation by 2032
A loosely dangled cigarette would once have been de rigueur for anyone spending a summer’s day at a beach or park in France.
So what? Now it is evidence. A ban on smoking in outdoor spaces is not just a health intervention. It’s a milestone in a 50-year cultural shift that has seen
• tobacco consumption fall across France;
• smoking restrictions extend deeply into public life; and
• the French people fall out of love with Gauloises and Gitanes.
Continue reading » | Xavier Greenwood | Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Quel dommage ! France will never be the same again! – © Mark Alexander
