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• France comes out smoking against cigarettes 

Jump to full article: The Independent Online (IOL) (za), 2003-05-29

Intro:

The French government warned this week that it was considering a 25 percent increase in cigarette prices, as part of a drive to reduce nicotine addiction, especially among teenagers.

France is also to ban the sale of cigarettes in tens - known to tobacco companies as "children's packets" - and, for the first time, will make the sale of tobacco to anyone under 16 a criminal offence.

Four days before World Non-Smoking Day, Health Minister Jean-François Mattei signalled that France plans to abandon its traditional tolerance of tobacco and smoking over the next few years.

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