Smokers fume as France mulls ban on 'too cool' Gitanes and Gauloises

[OwlHoot]

What is the world coming to?!

2016-07-20 Smokers fume as France mulls ban on 'too cool' Gitanes and Gauloises

The news was enough to have French smokers choking on their morning cigarette: France is considering banning some tobacco brands because they are just too cool.

Among those threatened are Gitanes and Gauloises, beloved of Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge Gainsbourg, who was said to puff through five packets of filterless Gitanes a day.
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The ban, which could also cover the Lucky Strike, Marlboro Gold, Vogue and Fortuna brands, is the logical conclusion of a new public health law – based on a European directive – which stipulates tobacco products “must not include any element that contributes to the promotion of tobacco or give an erroneous impression of certain characteristics”.

Reporting the ban, Le Figaro said that while the directive was “relatively vague”, it clearly covered anything suggesting “masculinity or femininity, physical slimness, youth or sociability”. ...

A lot of French people will be mightily peed off with the EU if this petty and vindictive measure is brought into effect, and rightly so!

[Mordac]

What is the world coming to?!

2016-07-20 Smokers fume as France mulls ban on 'too cool' Gitanes and Gauloises



A lot of French people will be mightily peed off with the EU if this petty and vindictive measure is brought into effect, and rightly so!

As if the French didn't have enough to worry about...

[AtW]

As if the French didn't have enough to worry about...

Smoking kills more than terrorists

[original PM]

Smoking kills more than terrorists

I think the words freedom of choice are needed somewhere in here!

[administrator]

I think the words freedom of choice are needed somewhere in here!

For terrorists or smokers?

[original PM]

For terrorists or smokers?

Anyone whose life choices do not involve killing other people.

Don't start on secondary smoking.

;-)

[Mordac]

Smoking kills more than terrorists

Yes it certainly does, but as others have subsequently pointed out, smokers have a choice. Victims of terrorism don't. Are we there yet?

[AtW]

Yes it certainly does, but as others have subsequently pointed out, smokers have a choice.

Smokers still have a choice, nobody banned tobacco yet, but why allow companies who profit from deaths to hook up more and more people??? Smoking is a preventable bad habit.

After smoking ban in UK pubs and streets much nicer, only people in Treasury are weeping at the loss of money from taxes and longer lives of people who stopped smoking.

[Malcolm Buggeridge]

What is the world coming to?!

2016-07-20 Smokers fume as France mulls ban on 'too cool' Gitanes and Gauloises



A lot of French people will be mightily peed off with the EU if this petty and vindictive measure is brought into effect, and rightly so!

but not Disque Bleu?

[Mordac]

Smokers still have a choice, nobody banned tobacco yet, but why allow companies who profit from deaths to hook up more and more people??? Smoking is a preventable bad habit.

After smoking ban in UK pubs and streets much nicer, only people in Treasury are weeping at the loss of money from taxes and longer lives of people who stopped smoking.

You mean those empty pubs which are now building sites? Pubs now smell of BO and farts, so much so that even non-smokers can't stand it. Be very careful what you wish for...