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The French surprised even themselves when they banned tobacco ads three years ago, and created smoke-free zones in public spaces. Even then, ___(1)___ seemed a little too American. Now some French lawmakers are preparing to end the act as reform that simply cant work in a country __(2)___.: X: F% H/ \9 l+ K
Law or no law, smokers and nonsmokers mingle __(3)__, whose owners generally ignore requirements to create separate no-smoking sections. French smokers __(4)___, in hospitals and directly under no -smoking signs. There are stiff fines for violating the smoke-free areas, but they are never imposed. "We have more important things to do", says a Paris official.
: g6 R: r7 i& h3 E: s The 1992 laws most controversial provision is the tobacco-ad ban. An exception has been made for motor sports, which are underwritten by tobacco firms. And fans shouted angrily when French TV blacked out a soccer game from abroad because of "secondary" tobacco and liquor ads at the local stadium. Still, those __(5)___ credit the ad ban for a 15 percent drop in smoking among French teens in the last three years.
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! L u# z) D9 B- H/ Q" j2 B A) without apparent friction in Paris café and restaurants, \7 B2 y- e/ ^" c) a- ]
B) light up in train stations
6 B N$ Q1 C$ j' v C) doing great harm to the smokers health
7 I1 b) }* A& @, ] D) the attempt to legislate good health' L/ z% A" Z; h- ?! E4 F, u: X1 u
E) who are against smoking# _6 c! O& C) U
F) that has always aided lifes petty vices
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