“France will prohibit smoking at all external places that can visit children”, said the Minister of Health and the Catherine Vautrin Health Minister.
The prohibition will enter into force 1. July and will include beaches, parks, public gardens, spaces in front of schools, bus cells and sports facilities.
“Tobacco must disappear where there are children,” Vautrin said in an interview, which published a daily Ouest-France, reports the BBC.
She added that ” freedom of smoking must end where the freedom of children begins to inhale fresh air. “
The outdoor spaces of cafes and bars, known as terraces, will be exempt from the ban, she said. Breaking rules will result in a fine of 135 euros.
Regular police will conduct a ban, but Vautrine adds as it firmly believes in “self-regulation.”
Although electronic cigarettes are exempted, it stated that it worked to introduce the limitations of the amounts of nicots that contain.
According to the French Drug Monitoring Center and drug dependence, 23.1 percent of the French population smokes every day, the lowest ever recorded percentage and decrease of more than five percent since 2014. years.
The French National Smoking Committee says that more than 75,000 smokers die every year from tobacco related diseases – 13 percent of all deaths.
(Vijesti.ba)
