{"id":3943,"date":"2016-08-31T05:05:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T05:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3943"},"modified":"2016-08-31T05:05:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T05:05:46","slug":"npr-report-french-teens-continue-smoking-despite-government-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3943","title":{"rendered":"NPR report: French teens continue smoking despite government crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Heard a radio report on NPR<\/a> last week \u00a0about how efforts to curb teen smoking in France are flagging, because smoking is still considered hip and suave among French youths.<\/p>\n

According to NPR, smoking remains wildly popular among teenagers in France. This despite a very aggressive anti-smoking campaign in France over the past several years. (Check the photo I included of a French anti-smoking ad. That image of a girl giving a blow job to a tobacco executive? That’s a real French anti-smoking ad. There’s another one with a teen boy.).<\/p>\n

Anyway, according to NPR, in spite of all the anti-smoking efforts, smoking remains deeply entrenched in French culture \u00a0About 40 percent of French teens smoke, according to NPR. That compares to less than 10 percent of American teens that now smoke (Smoking among teens in America has declined partly because of an aggressive Truth anti-smoking campaign and higher cigarette taxes, \u00a0and to a very large extent because of the meteoric rise of popularity of e-cigarettes among kids.).<\/p>\n

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Real, honest-to-goodness French anti-smoking ad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

France is implementing a number of measures to cut that smoking rate, including bans on menthol cigarettes and prohibiting sweet e-cigarette flavours. France will also soon\u00a0mandate\u00a0disgusting images of tobacco-related diseases on cigarette packs and \u00a0there have also been some very edgy anti-smoking ads there over the years and the government will crack down on tobacconists who don’t card underage customers. Apparently, in France, tobacco shop (cigarettes are primarly sold in tobacco shops in France) owners have not been carding kids buying cigarettes.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, kids interviewed by NPR said the plain packages won’t stop them from smoking, but higher taxes probably would. Higher taxes in America have proven very effective in pricing kids out of the cigarette market. Teens simply can’t afford the $6 to $8 a pack cigarettes cost in most places.<\/p>\n

One quote in the NPR piece made me kind of want to smack this kid (metaphorically smack her … I would never actually smack a kid around). From the story:<\/a><\/p>\n

Smoking is often popular among girls, who see it as a rite of passage and a part of French culture, says Naomi Finel, 16.<\/p>\n

“If you’re young and you walk in the streets and you’re in Paris, you will see people at cafes smoking and having a glass of wine,” she says. “And it’s like, ‘Good. They seem happy. They seem to enjoy their life.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, honey, you little French nitwit. They won’t be enjoying their smokers’ hack in the morning. They won’t be enjoying their loss of lung capacity. They won’t be enjoying their arthritis, heart disease, COPD or cancer that their smoking will likely give them. Smoking is not about\u00a0joie de vivre, <\/em>smoking is death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heard a radio report on NPR last week \u00a0about how efforts to curb teen smoking in France are flagging, because smoking is still considered hip and suave among French youths. According to NPR, smoking remains wildly popular among teenagers in France. 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