{"id":143430,"date":"2025-05-30T06:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T06:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143430\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T06:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T06:40:12","slug":"france-to-ban-smoking-on-beaches-in-parks-and-near-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143430\/","title":{"rendered":"France to ban smoking on beaches, in parks and near schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>France will ban smoking in all outdoor areas where children may be present, Health and Family Affairs Minister Catherine Vautrin announced on Thursday, the 29th of May, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c7873veygv2o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ban will come into force on the 1st of July and will also apply to beaches, parks, public gardens, schools, bus stops and sports grounds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTobacco must disappear where the children are,\u201d said Vautrin in an interview published by the Ouest-France newspaper. She added that \u201cthe freedom to smoke must end where the freedom of children to breathe fresh air begins\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The outdoor terraces of caf\u00e9s and bars will be exempted from the ban, she said. Violators face a fine of 135 euros.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister said the police would monitor compliance with the law, but added that she had great faith in \u201cself-regulation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although electronic cigarettes are an exception, Vautrin said she was working to introduce limits on the amount of nicotine they contain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the French Drugs and Drug Addiction Monitoring Centre, 23.1% of the French population smokes every day, the lowest percentage ever recorded and a drop of more than five points since 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The French National Committee against Smoking has pointed out that more than 75 000 smokers die each year from tobacco-related diseases \u2013 13% of all deaths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since 2008, France has banned smoking in establishments such as restaurants and nightclubs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A major move to ban smoking on beaches, in parks and other public places was expected in 2024, but the necessary decree was never adopted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, more than 1 500 municipalities have already voluntarily banned smoking in public places and several beaches across France have been smoke-free for years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A recent report by the French cancer association \u201cLa Ligue Contre le Cancer\u201d shows that almost 80% of French citizens support a ban on smoking in public places.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Also read:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/bnn-news.com\/media-eu-level-push-to-drastically-raise-excise-duty-on-tobacco-products-268193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media: EU-level push to drastically raise excise duty on tobacco products<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100063786828490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BNNNEWSCOM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France will ban smoking in all outdoor areas where children may be present, Health and Family Affairs Minister&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,1123,36,8212,22468,61926],"class_list":{"0":"post-143430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-featured","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-public-spaces","13":"tag-smoking","14":"tag-smoking-ban"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114595418816154820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}