France to ban smoking on beaches, parks and other public places

The French authorities is banning smoking successful each places wherever children walk time, including beaches, parks and extracurricular schools.

It will travel into unit connected July and beryllium enforced by police, reports nan BBC.

Health and Family Minister Catherine Vautrin told French media nan purpose was to free cigarettes from each places frequented by children.

She said that "the state to fume must extremity wherever nan state of children to respire caller aerial begins".

Smokers who breach nan rules will beryllium fined €135 ($237). While nan prohibition will beryllium enforced by regular police, Vautrin said she hoped group would show "self-regulation" .

The outdoor terraces of cafes and bars would beryllium exempt from nan caller rules.

Electronic cigarettes besides do not autumn nether nan ban, but nan authorities says it is readying limits connected nan amounts of nicotine they contain.

Data from nan French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction shows 23 per cent of France's organization smokes regular - nan lowest percent ever recorded.

Blanket smoking bans for beaches, parks and different nationalist places were expected to commencement past year, but nan required authorities was ne'er brought in.

But hundreds of beaches person prohibited smoking for respective years aft astir 1500 section governments introduced their own bans.