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Cette article est en anglais il est tiré du journal The daily Telegraph.
Le phénomène concerné est l'interdiction de fumer en France.
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Voici l'article:
Nicotine patches and chewing gum will replace Gauloise and Gitane when a ban on smoking in public places is imposed in France today.
The French government announced that it is to spend an initial £70 million on nicotine replacement therapy to help smokers adjust to a major cultural shift for a nation where lighting up is as characteristic an action as the Gallic shrug.
Those used to sporting a smouldering cigarette between their lips will be eligible for a £35 coupon towards cigarette substitutes. The coupons will be handed out to all smokers who register with doctors or at health clinics.
The government has outlawed smoking in public buildings, including shops, hospitals, theatres, stations, airports and museums. There will be no less than 175,000 "cigarette police" deployed across the country to enforce the ban, which is being introduced in two stages.
Cafés and restaurants have until Jan 1 next year to prepare for the second stage of the ban, which will also include casinos and nightclubs. Even academics and students – renowned for discussing high-minded ideas over endless packets of cigarettes – will have to leave their universities for a drag. If not they face a £48 fine, while the institution in which they are caught must pay double that.
While many recognise the health benefits the nation will reap, hardened smokers are furious. "They're taking away our small pleasures," said a secretary, as she shivered with her cigarette outside her workplace
The health minister says that smoking is responsible for 60,000 deaths a year in France, including 8,000 people who had never smoked. Lawsuits have been filed by some who claim to be victims of passive smoking.
"This is the end of the enforced co-habitation between smokers and non-smokers." Smoking in all French bars and restaurants has, technically, been banned since 1991, except for designated "smoking" areas. In practice, entire premises have been marked as "smoking areas", with almost everybody simply ignoring the ban.
The cost of smoking in France is still far less than in Britain. But over the past decade taxes have been pushed up by 40 per cent.
But the number of smokers is still rising, especially among teenagers. Smokers account for 32 per cent of 15 to 75-year-olds, and almost one in two in the 18-25 age bracket.
Some high schools have only just outlawed smoking. Others allow 16-year-olds to smoke in the playground, arguing that this is safer than having them cluster around the road outside, where they could be hit by cars.
Some are still fighting the ban. The Confederation of Tobacconists has filed a suit with the Council of State, France's highest administrative court, to annul the ban, which was made law by government decree rather than parliamentary vote.
