As the smoking ban makes Paris the city of dead

Either there is smoke, despite smoking or go to illegal clubs

Paris - is the day the "City of Love" or something like that as a world city, but at night there is a yawning boredom. "In a cemetery is more going on," said Paris and get increasingly frustrated in the planes of various low-cost airlines and fly to Berlin for 39 euros, the current "in-city" of the French. Others organize so-called "underground parties" establish, and slowly but surely a shadow of gastronomy.

Reason for the death of the former night city of night life is primarily the rigid ban on smoking in France. As people stopped smoking in restaurants, they may go before the Local to light a cigarette, followed by their smoking but also non-smoking friends. This creates anger among local residents who are disturbed in their sleep and call the police. This will display the hosts, which increasingly can not pay the fines and close down their local need.

Prior to the declining number of outstanding companies build up the people and thus create more noise. Angry neighbors who sleep can not press charges and the catering dying continues. Under the hood, and more often addresses the illegal premises or places where is (illegally) to be smoked, passed on. A shadow is established restaurant, which is consumed mostly but not only tobacco and alcohol, but because you do anyway is already in hiding, and increasingly hard to get drugs easily.

But even during the day, the culture has changed in the French capital. The typical French bistro exist any more. Bernard Quartier, president of the French Institute counted restaurants before, had that in the Paris region alone last year, close 2000 bistros. In the country every week, two bistros close its doors forever.

Missionary health campaigns against the dangers of alcohol and tobacco use to ensure that the typical French bistro is difficult to find. The decades-long culture of the French "living room of the little man", where people have come together to drink, to smoke and talk, is replaced by the food service, from luxury boutiques and health food stores.

Thus France lost important meeting places. Those who can afford to fly to Berlin or organize private parties. The younger organizing underground events, where the former social control is no longer present and the older generation must remain at home.

Here, the smoking ban completely missed the desired effect. Cigarette sales in France rose, like the cigarette group BAT reported happily, until by 2008 2009 by two billion to 55.6 billion units. That's two per cent more cigarettes sold within one year after the introduction of strict smoking ban in France.

On the part of the anti-smoking lobby will still try to push the reasons for the death of culture in Paris on other things such as the fact that the last metro leaves shortly after midnight. But this was even before the smoking ban so and had previously held the people not to celebrate legally in Paris.

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