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    France is implementing stricter anti-smoking policies to reduce smoking rates. The country aims to lower the smoking rate from one in three adults to the British rate of one in five by 2024. Smoking bans have been introduced since the 1970s. While smoking rates have declined for men, rates for women have increased and are now equal at around 30%. Additionally, smoking rates for French teenagers have risen to 30%. New policies include banning smoking in cars with children, plain packaging for cigarettes, and larger health warnings on packs. The health minister's goal is to eventually abolish smoking over the next 40 years.

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    France is implementing stricter anti-smoking policies to reduce smoking rates. The country aims to lower the smoking rate from one in three adults to the British rate of one in five by 2024. Smoking bans have been introduced since the 1970s. While smoking rates have declined for men, rates for women have increased and are now equal at around 30%. Additionally, smoking rates for French teenagers have risen to 30%. New policies include banning smoking in cars with children, plain packaging for cigarettes, and larger health warnings on packs. The health minister's goal is to eventually abolish smoking over the next 40 years.

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    France is implementing stricter anti-smoking policies to reduce smoking rates. The country aims to lower the smoking rate from one in three adults to the British rate of one in five by 2024. Smoking bans have been introduced since the 1970s. While smoking rates have declined for men, rates for women have increased and are now equal at around 30%. Additionally, smoking rates for French teenagers have risen to 30%. New policies include banning smoking in cars with children, plain packaging for cigarettes, and larger health warnings on packs. The health minister's goal is to eventually abolish smoking over the next 40 years.

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    Student name:____________________ term objective is to reduce the French smoking

    rate – one in three adults – to the present British


    Date:________________________ rate of one in five adults, by 2024.

    France set to ban smoking Until the late 1960s, almost two-thirds of French
    men smoked – but far fewer women. From 1976, a
    series of increasingly tough measures has been
    introduced, culminating in a ban on smoking in all
    public enclosed spaces, including bars and
    restaurants, from 2006.The smoking rate among
    French men is much reduced but the habit has
    spread among French women. The smoking rate is
    gender equal now, just under 30%.

    However French teenagers are now smoking as


    much as their parents. Officially, the smoking rate
    among 17-year-olds is 30 per cent.Tobacconists
    have successfully lobbied for a slowing of price
    increases which had led to an apparent boom in
    tobacco smuggling.

    France, where once every famous actor was seen


    True, False or Not given?
    smoking is set to become one of the toughest anti-
    smoking countries in the world. 1. Many famous French actors were once seen
    smoking.
    Bright colours and brand names on cigarette
    packets will be replaced by health warnings in large 2. The fine for smoking in public places is 500
    letters and by big photographs of the diseased Euros.
    organs of smokers. Car drivers and passengers will
    3. Ms Touraine wants to abolish smoking by 2016.
    be banned from smoking with children under 12 in
    the car.Although this will not take effect until 2016, 4. A higher percentage of people in Britain smoke
    a TV and radio campaign started today, warning than in France.
    that tobacco kills one in two smokers.
    5. As many men as women smoke in France.
    The Health Minister, Marisol Touraine, said: “We
    can no longer accept the fact that the number of 6. French teenagers smoke as much as their
    deaths caused by tobacco in France is the parents' generation.
    equivalent of an airliner crashing each day with 200 7. Increasing cigarette prices leads to increased
    people on board.” smuggling.
    Ms Touraine’s long-term objective is to abolish Source - The Independent - abridged and simplified
    smoking over 40 years by discouraging new
    generations from taking up the habit. Her medium-
    Discussion topics

    Do you or does anyone in your family smoke?

    Not, my family is Christian and I have never seen anyone smoke.

    Does smoking disgust you?

    I have never smoked, so I don't know if it disgusts me and when I have a person nearby
    smoking it does not bother me to feel the smoke.

    How would you feel if you were in a car with a smoker?

    Would you say anything if you saw someone smoking near a baby?

    Do you think France is right or wrong to have these new laws?

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