A sin sanctioned insensitively by the godsIn a market which is less than last year 6Or more likely there has been invited by the Kremlin3 billion against a positive outcome of 6As sales where the automaker expected sell 9This requires that give meaning to the crisisEurope is sometimes difficult to speak with one voiceA litigant may not benefit from its contradictionsCalifornians of the Senate and the House are the key committees All are capable of passing alliances of circumstance with the other sideNothing done there. Or the "day of anger" tobacconists organized today neither the position taken by Nicolas Sarkozy to "geographical adaptations" of the prohibition of smoking in public places seem to enter into the determination of the Government. The President of the UMP, wishing that the issue is not addressed in the same in the coffee shops of small towns and cities, Xavier Bertrand, Minister of health, between firmness. It reaffirmed, Friday morning, France 2, that he would not "two weights, two measures", and that the rule would be the same for all that have to be "in a large metropolis or in rural areas", recalling with force the position adopted by the Government and defended early October by the Prime Minister.
"We need to protect employees in places exposed to smoking, so a decision of the Court of cassation forced us", still argued Xavier Bertrand, who does not seem to worry about the electoral consequences of such a measure. Indeed, a survey BVA requested by the Government and carried out Thursday and Friday to 1.008 people shows that 76 of the French themselves favourable to the total prohibition of smoking in public places, a score rose by 6 points from the end of September. The large majority of the political class appears to support the choice of the Government, with the exception of a few members of the majority, which, in circumstances, still fear the sanction of the polls. "I would prefer that he is appealed to volunteering and we leave bars-tobacco deciding their orientation in the field", explains the UMP MP Hervé Novelli.
15,000 protesters expected
Xavier Bertrand is cure and wants to go even further. "I intend to propose that there is no room closed for smokers in the State administrations", he said Friday this measure did not apply to local communities. This is a new advanced, since according to the decree in preparation, public places affected by the ban retained the possibility of creating spaces closed smokers except in hospitals, schools, colleges, high schools and universities. Xavier Bertrand should begin by applying this rule in his own Department before attempting to convince his colleagues to do the same in their jurisdictions. It still needs to address the problem of retirement homes. He was pronounced for a prohibition extended to the rooms, either in hospitals or institutions for elderly people. But "private space, the House must be regarded as a home," said Pascal Champvert, President of the Association of Directors of accommodation for the elderly.
Lessees of tobacco are, themselves, raise the pressure. Today, they have planned to demonstrate everywhere in France against the decision of the Government: 15,000 demonstrators are expected in 70 departments. President of the Confederation of tobacconists, René the Pope, claims a report of the order or a period of five years to apply it. This text should be submitted this week to the social section of the State Council for publication in the "Official Journal" before the end of the month, according to the Ministry. How to make the irreversible decision. The Decree provides for the implementation of the prohibition of smoking in public places to February 1, 2007 for administrations and businesses and January 1, 2008, for hotels, restaurants, cafes, the barstabacs, casinos and discos.
