Sacre Bleu!

[tikistitch]

French cafes set to ban smoking

France is poised to extend its smoking ban to bars, cafes, restaurants and discos, but the measure will not be enforced fully until 2 January.

The health ministry said smokers would be allowed a 24-hour "grace" period for the New Year festivities....

France has about 13.5 million smokers among its population of 60.7 million....

The new ban is seen as a big cultural shift for France, where smoky cafes have long been the haunts of famous artists and philosophers....

EuroStitch predicts the fall of Western Civilization.

Comments

[blythou.livejournal.com]

we still can smoke outdoors at the sidewalk cafés, thank god... Euro Stitch is right, though ;-)

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

What I have to ask is, every time Mr. Tiks and I have gone into a French cafe with Philip, no matter what the hour, there's inevitably a Middle Eastern dude in there, just sitting and smoking. Every cafe, different dude, but he's *always* there. What the heck is Cafe Smoker Dude gonna do now? You can't sit at a cafe and chew gum for hours, it's just not the same!

[blythou.livejournal.com]

Poor Café Dude... Maybe he can sit outside on the heated terrace where it's still allowed to smoke !