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Quelqu'un allume une cigarette- Someone lights up a cigarette

Kailas N N - 12:58am Nov 2, 1998 (1.)

I found it intersting that most of the responses on the french side resulted in the individual either asking the smoker to stop or doing something to counteract it.

My impression of europe in general is that lots of people smoke there, and something like someone violating no smoking rules would be commonplace. Is this not the case? I assumeed that the response from the french to this would be like Americans reacting to someone not using their turn signal(it's not legal or polite, but no one screams or honks). Maybe that's a bad example, but my point is the same. If something impolite becomes commonplace, people generally tend to ignore it.

Has smoking not reached that stage? If it has, is there a strong anti-tobacco campaign?

Caroline C- 03:57am Nov 2, 1998 (2.)

Je crois que ton opinion sur l'ampleur que prend les fumeurs s'avère exact en France. Dans le train, par exemple, les wagons non fumeurs ne sont plus respectés, et même quand un controleur passe dans le coin, et voit une personne fumer, il ne lui demande rien. Cependant certaines personnes ont encore du savoir-vivre et savent s'abstenir de fumer dans certains lieux.

Gwenael D- 04:14am Nov 2, 1998 (3.)

Salut à tous!

Malheureusement je suis bien obligé de faire comme vous ce triste constat. Les français fument beaucoup (plus que les américains?). Et rien ne semble pouvoir empêcher cela. On augmente les prix, les gens continuent de fumer. On montre combien ils détruisent leur santé, ils continuent de fumer. Je pense donc que ce n'est pas parce qu'on dira à ces personnes qu'elles sont dans un train, que cela les empêchera de fumer. Le gouvernement a beau nus pondre une belle loi, je ne pense pas qu'elle soit applicable dans la réalité. Comment empêcher quequ'un de fumer dans un café ou dans un pub?

Nisha C- 06:05pm Nov 2, 1998 (3.1)

know in boston that they recently banned smoking in all restaurants. that's just one measure the government is taking to try and stop smoking. i think the french and american responses were very similar. i noticed overall that the french were more direct. more people would just tell the person to stop smoking. however, there were a quite of few americans that would tell the waitress or indirectly make it known that their smoking was bothersome.

Cynthia A R- 07:36pm Nov 2, 1998 (4.)

I was also surprised to see that the french would take the initiative to ask someone to stop smoking. When I visited France, smoking was so commonplace that I could not imagine asking someone to stop.

I definately think that a larger percentage of the people in France smoke in comparison to the US.

Do French restaurants have non-smoking areas? And how do the compare in size to the smoking areas?

In the US, in the restaurants that having smoking areas, the smoking areas are significantly smaller.

Kailas N N - 02:27am Nov 3, 1998 (5.)

Is there a very big anti smoking campain there in france?

Allen S - 06:28pm Nov 3, 1998 (6.)

Hi!

I was wondering if any of you who would ask someone to stop smoking in a non-smoking section are yourselves smokers? Also, which "type" of people smoke in France? Do educated people smoke, or mostly uneducated? It is ironic that here in the US we have a very strong anti-smoking campaign, yet we are very overweight and have the highest incidence of heart disease in the world, mostly because of our high intake of fat and cholesterol!!