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    France set to ban smoking rate – one in three adults – to the present British

    rate of one in five adults, by 2024.

    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


    France, where once every famous actor was seen
    slowing of price increases which had led to an
    smoking is set to become one of the toughest anti-
    apparent boom in tobacco smuggling.
    smoking countries in the world.

    Bright colours and brand names on cigarette


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

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    Discussion topics

    -Do you or does anyone in your family


    smoke?

    -Does smoking disgust you?

    -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?

    Key
    1. True
    2. Not Given
    3. False
    4. False
    5. True
    6. True
    7. True

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