French Smoking Ban in Full Force
January 2, 2008 By ELAINE GANLEY , Associated Press Writer
A tourist enjoy a cigarette at the terrace of a cafe-restaurant on the pavement of the Champs Elysees in Paris, Tuesday Jan. 1, 2008, the only place where it is allowed to smoke, on the first day of the total ban of smoking in French cafes, restaurants and bars.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
(AP) -- France's most drastic measure to curb smoking went into effect Wednesday with a full ban on lighting up in cafes, restaurants and discotheques, a sea change for a country where the cigarette came to symbolize the French way of life.
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