A year after taking away Jean Paul Sartre's cigarette the French government has decreed that nobody shall smoke in public in the entire country. While this is unquestionbly good - it's a partial health boon and a partial boon in the undoubtedly enormous collection of fines the police will collect from violators - at the same time, it is a little sad to think of Paris without her cigarettes. Helas, even the city of romance has to grow up. Will Canadians give up the donut next? [GT]
Ban threatens French lifestyles
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