About bloody time!!
When you are used to non smoking in meal areas of hotels and go to
a country where they still allow the filthy habit, it hits you like a
rocket,
making you realise what it was like before ones own country banned smoking
in restaurants.
Smoking should never have been allowed in workplaces anyway.
Aiurcfonditioning plants are only designed to bring in about 8-10% of fresh
air
where the remainer is recirculated and gets worse by the day if smoking is
allowed.
I nearly choked on my meal in a Paris restaurant in 2004
when the idiot at the table next to,me lit up on a cigar.
I am glad I can now eat without having to drown in smoke from
others disgusting habit.
People who light up while others are eating are inconsiderate oafs.
If you want to kill yourself, go ahead , but dont involve others in the
habit by making them passively smoke due to your lack of manners.
John H
Australia
"Au revoir les fumeurs" wrote in message
news:ko84s2t8bc27g17c51uq4rlh7i5es15ts2@news...
> Smoking Ban Goes Into Effect in France
> Thursday February 1
>
> Smoking Ban Goes Into Effect in France, to the Chagrin of Many of
> Country's Smokers
>
> PARIS (AP) -- A ban on smoking in public spaces went into effect
> Thursday in France, prompting exasperation among many of the country's
> estimated 15 million smokers.
>
> The ban prohibits lighting up in workplaces, schools, airports,
> hospitals and other "closed and covered" public places. Bars, cafes
> and restaurants are exempt for the moment, but are also to go
> smoke-free next year.
>
> Many in France fear the ban may alter the way of life in a country
> known for its smoke-filled cafes, and some French smokers have decried
> it as attack on their personal freedoms.
>
> Barbara Laru, a saleswoman at a shop in Paris' mammoth Saint Lazare
> train station, called the ban "ridiculous."
>
> Laru -- who risked a 68 euros ($88) fine from one of the ban's 175,000
> enforcement agents by lighting up -- explained she had no choice but
> to break the law because leaving the station for a smoke took too
> long.
>
> "I can't take breaks all the time," she said. Ironically, Laru's work
> ethic could end up costing her employer: Under the ban, bosses who let
> smokers light up in the workplace risk fines of 135 euros ($174).
>
> The French government has said it will help smokers kick the habit by
> reimbursing up to 50 euros ($65) per person per year for stop-smoking
> aids. It also will allow companies to invest in strictly regulated
> smoking rooms inside the workplace.
>
> With the ban, France joins the ranks of Italy, Spain, Belgium, Britain
> and Ireland, which already have enacted broad anti-smoking laws.
>
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