“Today, the subject is to denormalize tobacco consumption“: guest of franceinfo this Sunday morning, the president of the League against cancer demands from the government the generalization of non-smoking areas around the 60,000 schools in France, within a radius of about 500 meters. According to Daniel Nizri, this could be one of the means which “will perhaps achieve the objective announced by the Head of State last February, a generation without tobacco in 2030 “.
Local initiatives are multiplying to create tobacco-free zones around schools in France, this is already the case around hundreds of schools according to the JDD. But the association now wants a national directive. 75,000 people die each year in France because of tobacco.
200,000 young people use cigarettes each year
“This is to make smoking behavior abnormal, less banal., explains in the Journal du Dimanche Karine Gallopel-Morvan, professor at the School of Advanced Studies in Public Health. It goes through a decrease in visibility of cigarettes in the environment. “
“Since it is no longer possible to smoke in establishments open to the public, we have all observed that a certain number of smokers concentrate around a certain number of places.“, underlines the president of the League against cancer. He also recalls that”200,000 young people use tobacco for the first time each year, and that about two out of three will remain smokers, this is very important“.