France has struggled to kick its smoking habit. A new public health decree published Saturday aims to change that. In the coming days, smoking will be banned in all French parks and sports venues, at beaches and bus stops, in a perimeter around all schools, and anywhere children could gather in public.

  • normalexit
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    1 day ago

    I’m usually for personal choice, but smoking needs to go. Good job France.

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      I do not see how that’s opposed to personal choice, one’s liberty to smoke stops where another person’s liberty to not deal with the smell and refuse begins

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        I respect (scope: smoking) child carriages as long as they are not next to the road (i.e., car traffic). Then it’s free game.

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        10 hours ago

        I think we should expand this logic to petrol vehicles and loud motorcycles!

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        I hate more the fact that it’s super toxic, then the smell comes

        10+% of all people that die due to smoking die of passive smoking, so inhaling the smoke from other people

    • console.log(bathing_in_bismuth)@sh.itjust.works
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      We are a small time away from mandatory DNA collection and genetics testing based insurance costs, with probably an increase of monthly costs if you have unhealthy habits. You’ll end up dead sooner and increased in chemo or cell edited cancer mediation will be covered by the increased costs.

      That’s a fucking L btw.

      We can all agree on smoking prob, but where to draw the line? Increased costs so you can have a single cheeseburger a month allowance?

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        3 hours ago

        They would do anything but attack the root of the problem (phillip morris and others). They demonize kids who sell hashish but sell a product that kills millions of people each year and you’ll be fine.

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        11 hours ago

        The problem is the basic idea, what an insurance is.

        In the anglophone world, insurance companies developed from brokers who offered bets on whatever you wanted to insure.

        In my country, many insurance companies develeoped out of historical mutual aid societies – everybody contributes to the insurance’s fond, and get’s the (reas/in)surance to receive help when needed. That’s especially true for all kind of social insurance or fire insurance companies.

        US health insurance seems to be of the betting kind and no mutual aid society. That’s a problem with deep roots.

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        1 day ago

        The prohibition is not for your health, it’s because everyone else also has to breathe your smoke.

        Smoke in private, not in public places, and especially not in public places where children play.