The iconic image of a smoking Parisian is becoming a thing of the past as France has banned smoking in most public areas. Ramy Inocencio reports.
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35 Comments
When did France become puritanical?
🇺🇸 🚬 anything else every where
Sacre Bleu!!!
What happened? They used to love smoking.
i have been campaigning for this. the US will have such a law soon.
Well this is crazy!!!
Stop smoking and start dry vaping.
i even included "banning tobacco use in public areas" as an interest of mine on my SSD paperwork today, hours before this video was publicized. coinky dink.
Zig zag would be sad .. there's a gd liquor store on every street
They need to wear deodorant
please do so in america please
But not vaping?
What is overreach? What is BS? What is a need to control others? Ask a mental health expert!
Folk should really stop using children as their scapegoats and as their cover-ups for their own lack of self control!
… "blame the children", they say!
What is a public health crisis?
What is self control?
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No kids then, smoking shouldn't be a problem since, they're the "reason" for the bans.
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What is self control? Is abortion a second hand decision?
"My body", "my choice" is only relative to abortions… ehhh?!
Maybe there should be a total ban on abortions, this way the smoking ban can stick.
Time to quit everybody. Come on. It’s 2025. You can do it.
This law is at least 60 years late. Still 75000 people dying every year from smoking alone, only in France. We as a species are unbearably stupid to allow this.
Don't think it'll happen in the US. Too much lost tax revenue and don't even mention the associated medical tax bills when you have lung cancer
Trade thc laws for tobacco laws
If you want to have clean air outdoors, ban gasoline.
I don’t care if you smoke or not but this is blatant restrictions of personal freedom
But Europe has never been free has it?
A dated lifestyle and known carcinogen.
We all pay for this with higher health insurance premiums.
Please, no whataboutism.
It's just embarrassing.
Coming from a family of smokers, why tf anyone would start that idiotic habit is beyond me. Well done France!
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Man I must have smoked 30 packs last month in france 2nd hand. Mon deiu
Some of those in the video don’t look very French , FOREIGNERS OUT!
I’m guessing they didn’t ban everyone peeing in the street?