France due to enlarge smoking ban to protect childrens' health

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(28 Jun 2025)
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Paris - 24 June 2025
1. Various of Arc de Triomphe and Eiffel tower in distance
2. Cafe
3. Various of man smoking at cafe
4. Ballons in front of a carousel
5. Children playing
6. Pedestrians
7. Various of people smoking
8. Various of bus stop

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Nice, France - 9 June 2025
9. Wide of beach
10. People on promenade

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Paris - 26 June 2025
11. Exterior of French League Against Cancer building
12. SOUNDBITE (French) Philippe Bergerot, President, French League Against Cancer:
"For World 'No Tobacco Day' on May 31st, we conducted a survey, as we had done a few years ago, which fully confirmed the stance of the French people. Two-thirds of the French wanted to expand smoke-free areas, and in particular, to be a bit stricter on tobacco regulations. When we delved further, eight out of ten French people wanted smoking to be banned around schools, in parks, on beaches, and in places where there are children. What we are saying is not to ban for the sake of banning, but also to promote what we call denormalization. In people's minds, smoking is normal. Our aim is to encourage the younger generation, the children, and around places where there are children, not to smoke to show that in recreational areas, smoking is not necessary. This applies to a park, a beach, and so on. Gradually, we are trying to accustom this new generation not to smoke because we know very well that when there are parent who smoke, in more than half of the cases, the children become smokers. So we are really trying to work on this new generation."

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Paris - 24 June 2025
13. Mid of people walking in park
14. SOUNDBITE (French) Anabelle Cermell, mother of infant son:
"Having a little three-month-old baby, I think it's actually a good thing. Indeed, every time there are cigarettes, it bothers me. I tell myself, oh, it's really not ideal for him, but there's not much I can do about it, or I would have to, I don't know, avoid terraces, not take the bus, not go to parks, and so on. So I think it's good for the health of little ones and children."
15. Mid of people in park, one person smoking
16. Close of cigarette being extinguished
17. SOUNDBITE (French) Natacha Uzan, Paris resident:
"In restaurants, it matters, we no longer have to endure passive smoking. Now outside, in parks, I find it becoming a bit repressive and for me, I don't know if it represents a real danger, but maybe I don't know much about this subject."

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18. STILL Actor Jean Paul Belmondo receiving a pack of cigarettes while seated next to actor Ursula Andress

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ARCHIVE: Pireaus, Greece - 19 February 1971
19. STILL Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo smoking

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Paris - 24 June 2025
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Victoria Shakhova, Paris resident:
"Here we have a lot of space, and if the space was small, I would probably feel much more that you have this tobacco around. So I think it's a bit overdramatized, and actually, frankly speaking, I can't imagine in France that it's forbidden fully but the initiative can be considered."

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Paris - 26 June 2025
21. Philippe Bergerot in office
22. SOUNDBITE (French) Philippe Bergerot, President, French League Against Cancer:

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Paris - 24 June 2025
23. Wide of buggies in park, people sitting on grass
STORYLINE:
France has struggled to kick its smoking habit, but a new public health decree published Saturday aims to change that.

























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