I thought that France had prohibited smoking in most food venues as well??
They have signs up in restaurants and no one obeys them. The French have a nice anti-government side to their nature - just check out those yellow jacket folks.
I don’t blame Hockney. He’s a good artist, he’s old and rich, he should live where he wants and eat, drink and smoke like a chimney if he wants.
I abhor smoke nazis.
As someone who has traveled the world, I've noticed that smoking prohibitions are obeyed only in America. In other countries, they are ignored or treated as a social violation akin to driving slow in the left lane.