France will ban smoking on beaches, in parks, outside schools and in other locations to protect children, France’s health and families minister said.
The ban will come into effect in July, Catherine Vautrin said in an interview with the Ouest France newspaper late on Thursday. It will exempt cafe terraces and will not apply to electronic cigarettes.
“Where there are children, tobacco must disappear,” Vautrin said. “From July 1, beaches,
