‘There, where there are children, the smoking It must disappear, “her health and family minister explained FranceKatrin Votrien, in an interview.
The French government announced today (29.05.2025) that it will ban smoking outdoors from July 1, where children such as beaches, parks and public gardens, spaces outside schools, bus stops, sports facilities may be located.
A fine of 135 euros could be imposed to fail to comply with the prohibition, Botrien said, who estimates that the freedom to smoke “stops where the right of children begins to breathe fresh air”.
The measure concerns beyond kindergartens and elementary schools, high schools and high schools, in order to avoid the possibility of “high school and high school students to smoke in front of their schools”.
On the contrary, the ban does not concern the outdoors of coffee or electronic cigarettes.
On the contrary, the Minister of Health wants to “reduce the permissible nicotine threshold” in these products and “reduce the number of fragrances”.
The generalization of no smoking sites, as announced by the Minister of Health, is part of the measures presented under the National Battle of the Battle of Smoking 2023-2027 by the then Minister of Health Erelian Rousseau, with the ambition of “to respond to the Authorities of the 20th”.
Organizations in the fight against smoking are concerned as they do not see the government’s decisions to be implemented. Smoking causes 75,000 deaths a year in France.
According to a poll conducted by the Ligue Contre Le Cancer Association, six out of 10 French (62%) are in favor of a broader ban on cigarettes in public spaces.