Should the fight against smoking go through a ban on cigarettes in the cinema? The question was asked again on November 16.
While the senators adopted a measure devoted to the increase in the price of tobacco by 2020, the PS senator of Sarthe, Nadine Grelet-Certenais, questioned the Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn, on a subject which is not not new: the influence of cinema on smoking in France.
“We must go beyond the wallet (…) by focusing in particular on cultural incentives to smoke. I am thinking for example of the cinema which promotes the practice”, declared the senator, as reported. Public Senate. “The League against cancer shows in a study that 70% of new French films show at least once a person smoking”. The senator deplores this “kind of diverted advertising for the consumption of tobacco”, especially that the young people “are the first consumers of films and series”.
Steps in the next tobacco control plan
The Minister of Health approved this speech, declaring that she did not understand “the importance of cigarettes in French cinema”. She announced that she would take action in the next national tobacco control plan and that it was important to “denormalize the image of tobacco in society” and work on its “social marketing”. Agnès Buzyn also declares to have already spoken about it in the Council of Ministers to Françoise Nyssen, Minister of Culture and promises “firm action” on the subject.
On the Internet side, mocking reactions did not take long to appear on social networks in the face of such a measure. On Twitter, @ LeCinémaestmort ironically: “In addition, the characters in French films will now have to eat five fruits and vegetables a day”. Others state all the behaviors that would then have to be censored to follow this logic: drug use, alcohol, speeding, murders … “The thrillers will take a hit”, sums up La Tribune de l ‘ Art (@ltdla).
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