Brigitte Bardot avec cigarette
Hell is other people removing your cigarette (Sartre photo airbrushed to comply with French law)
Great Britain 17,000 blinded by fags (Smoking, that is)
Great Britain Next, a ban on smoking in our parks and open spaces (indoor ban began yesterday)
Keef escapes fine for lighting up, but Stones will keep puffing on stage (Stones defy smoke ban)
Pub patio heaters for smokers will produce 'as much pollution as a small city'
SCOTLAND BANS SMOKING (Nationwide ban in all enclosed public places)
U.K. Riot police storm pub after a smoker lights up in protest to the ban
Bangladesh bans smoking in public places (Scofflaws face 83 cent fine - nearly a day's avg. wage)
Brigitte Bardot avec cigarette
>Jacques Chirac, who, according to a recent unauthorised biography, slept with a packet of Marlboros on his bedside table.
OMG! Smoking American cigarettes??
Hey, Jascque! - toss me one of those cowboys ...
Sounds like the French still have that rebellious spirit the socialists have beaten out of this country. We have become a nation of sheeple.
Well if a full scale revolt against the smoking ban stupidity is going to happen it would be in France. The Italians accepted it meekly, and so have Americans. I wish I smoked so I could defy the bans myself.
I can’t imagine that declaring yourself a communist is a rite of passage in France.
Your teenage years are supposed to be years of rebellion against your parents’ values.
Socailism is mainstream in France. Where is the rebellion in being a Trotskyist.
Now declaring one’s self to be a Reaganite that would be rebellion in France!
Adults take responsibility for their own actions, but children need caretakers.
No Smoking within 150 feet of store entrance
I thought to myself, hmm, 150 feet would put me in the middle of the highway. Ridiculous
A smoking ban? Mon Dieu! The next thing you know, they’ll be making them bathe every day.
Nanny State Ping
The French aren’t always in favor of such things :)
Who would have thought that France would be so far behind the curve in the socialist, foundless smoking ban hysteria?
Tobacco free meaning no smoking, no chewing tobacco or any kind of tobacco whatsoever anywhere on Boeing property. This means if factory workers want to "suck a fag", they have to walk ~10 blocks or more to get off-property before lighting up. I can't wait to see how this is going to go over. Should be very popcorn-worthy.......
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
- C. S. Lewis
I do wish Jean Paul was around to comment on this.
There is nothing that says France more than the smell of Galoise cigarettes or worse still the burning rubber smell of Gitanes.