Butting out in France
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An end of an era. The beggining of the end for smoking in French cafes brings to a close decades of international reknown and some might say ill repute as outdoor cafes in France now face financial penalities for smokers who contravene the law.
Smoking Banned in the Cafes of France
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Of course you are going to have your small contingent of complainers,whiners,naysayers and grimly silent fop wearing artistic types who disagree with the molly-coddling "interfering" government.
The good news is lower health costs,improved quality of life, longer lives for elderly people and happy kids who need a chance to grow up healthy first.
It could also mean a boon for tourism. I mean who needs 'Paris in the spring' when all the lovely daffodil smell is corrupted by the smell of burning tobacco weed? Mind you, I am thinking American brands here and I know France has an intellectual cultural superiority complex over America but now what will they have left to "discuss" about the US in their much overstated glorious cafes?
How much are they becoming like America?
"Before you could walk down any street and walk into any cafe and have your entire nasal and nostril system vexated and washed over with pure pungent tobacco smoke already exhaled from someone elses lungs or off the tip of somebody elses cigarrette, but now the streets are filled with pure clean unadulterated air and you can even smell the gardens from 12 blocks away. I dont know. I am getting tired of being told what to do, what to eat, what to drink...what about sex? Im getting tired of this government maybe next time I vote for somebody else. Or maybe we have a national strike to protest r I will collect my butts for 6 months and throw them on the governemnt lawn" - Maurice DeLavilier, shop owner,43
From where I post here in Canada, one aspect of our law that has changed in the past ten years (since 1997) is that:
Tobacco companies may not:
Use "lifestyle" advertising featuring glamour, recreation, excitement, vitality, risk or daring, or other associations that might appeal to young persons.
So over the past decade, after since having been exposed to countless full page,billboard and outdoor advertising for 30 years of my life, I slowly had my intake of glamouros ads weaned from my psyche.
As far as my daily visual landscape goes, I certainly am not complaining.
Did you know that Marlboro was originally a womans smoke?
I hope France begins to enjoy the exhileration of its new found era. At this moment, the majority of people who smoke from around the world are gays and lesbians, Korean men and US Navy personel and poor people from India. And oh jah, that favorite group that tobacco companies would love to hook: youngsters.
I wonder how many people consider smoking phallic and is an extension for women to replicate in themselves Freuds theoretical 'penis envy'? Perhaps on that tangent is has given rise to all kinds of man hating right wing feministas.
I mean if you are influenced by this type of ad, (posted here--> purely for reference sake 
you might be thinking along the same lines as this tobacco warning disclaimer stipulates in the mind of the user.
There are more than 4000 chemicals in cigarette smoke. Some of them are also in wood varnish, the insect poison DDT, arsenic, nail polish remover and rat .
daniela-reimann.de
Begginining since 2005 there has been no smoking inside Machs Cafe.
Posted by mach1231
at 1:29 PM PST
Updated: Tuesday, January 1, 2008 2:09 PM PST
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