Country who has made smoking sexy is breaking with cigarettes

Paris: Brigit Bardot pointed to a barefoot on a Saint-Tropze beach, which draws dull puff from its cigarette. Another actor, Jean-Paul Belmondo, dropped the Champs-Elisis down with a curling of smoke from his defunct lips, capturing a generation’s restless rebellion.In France, cigarettes were never cigarette – they were cinematic statements, flirting and rebellion that were wrapped in rolling paper.Still starting from July 1, if the scenes of the iconic film of Bardot and Belmondo were repeated in real life, they will be subject to 135 euros (USD 153) in fine.After glamorizing tobacco for decades, France has been preparing for its most broad smoking ban so far. The new restrictions declared by Health Minister Catherine Watrin will smoke in almost all external public areas, where children can collect along with beaches, parks, gardens, playgrounds, sports places, school entrances and bus stops.“Tobacco should disappear where there are children,” Watrin told the French media. Smoking freedom “stops where children begins to breathe in clean air”.If Watrin’s law reflects public health preferences, it also indicates a deep cultural change. Smoking has defined identity, fashion and cinema for so long that the new remedy seems like a calm French revolution in a country whose relationship with tobacco is famous.According to French League Against Cancer, from 2015 to 2019, more than 90 percent of French films had smoking scenes – more than double the rate in Hollywood products. Each French film smoked a three-minute on-screen, effectively performed similar to six 30-second television advertisements.Cinema has been particularly impressive. Belmondo’s rebel smoking in Jean-Leuk Godard became a shorthand to disregard the worldwide. Bardot’s cigarette smoke worked through “and God Create Woman”, which symbolizes unbalanced sexuality.Nevertheless, there are results of this glamorization. According to French public health officials, about 75,000 people die every year from tobacco related diseases. Although the recent smoking rate has been submerged – less than 25 percent of the French adults now smoke daily, a historic low – habit remains constantly embedded, especially between young people and urban chic.France’s relationship with tobacco has long been filled with contradiction. Air France did not ban smoking on all its flights until 2000, as Major American carriers excluded it in the late 1980s and early 90s. The delay slowed a country to reduce its cultural romance with cigarettes at a distance of 35,000 feet.The most trendyst neighborhood in Paris, walking through the stylish roads of Le Maris, was the reactions to smoking restrictions from practical acceptance to indifferent disregard.“It’s about time. I don’t want my children to think that smoking is romantic,” a 34 -year -old fashion buyer Clemens Laurent said, a crowded cafe submerging Espresso on the roof. “Certainly, Bardot has created cigarettes that she looks glamorous. But Bardot did not worry about today’s warning on lung cancer.” In a nearby boutique, 53 -year -old vintage dealer Luke Bodri essentially saw the ban as some attack on French. “Smoking has always been a part of our culture. Take cigarettes and what have we left? Kail smoothie? “He bluffed.Across her, 72 -year -old Jean Levi surprised her, her voice encouraged deeply – she said – for decades of decades of golloies. “I smoked my first cigarette genes and smoked,” she confessed, flickering eyes behind vintage sunglasses. “This was his voice-dhokrapan, sexy, alive. Who did not want that voice?” Indeed, Jean Moro’s gravel, nicotine-scrapped voice converted tobacco into poetry, which became immortal in classics like Francois Trufot’s “Jules at Gym”. Smoking acquired an existential glamor, which left unimaginable for generations of French smokers.France’s new law reflects broad European trends. Britain, Spain and Sweden have implemented significant smoking sanctions in all public places. Sweden smoked outdoor restaurant roofs, bus stops and school gardens in 2019. Spain enhances its restrictions on the cafes’ roofs, the spaces still exempt in France, at least for now.In Paris Park Place Des Voseges, literature student Thomas Bouchord drank an electronic cigarette, which is still free from the new ban and shrunk.“Perhaps vapping our compromise,” he said, exiting slowly. “A little less sexy, perhaps. But less wrinkles too.”