Smokers know the dangers of smoking cigarettes, but many find it hard to stop: "I can’t help myself!" Smoking for pleasure, to fight anxiety, or to emancipate yourself.... What are the reasons why French people smoke?
Reportage. 614 young people under 30 have agreed to embark on a ferry in Marseille to participate in the anti-tobacco experiment offered by Radio France. The spa guests will spend 5 days on board the Massalia to try to stop smoking permanently. Comment on images of the cruise alternating with the interview of Daniel Scaller, animator Life and Health and the testimony of a curist.
Feature on women’s smoking. Smoking would have been an extension of women’s empowerment. Smokers testify: they do not want or cannot quit smoking, their first cigarette, cigarette to fight anxiety, the pleasure of smoking. Interview with Odile LESOURNE, psychoanalyst: we must differentiate the reasons why we start smoking and those why we continue to smoke; smoking calms women’s anxiety and stress.
Interview of Simone VEIL on the occasion of the anti-smoking campaign led by the government: "in this campaign there is a determined will of the public authorities".
Microsidewalks to smokers about the risks of lung cancer they incur: the majority consider that this risk will have no influence on their behaviour and that they will not stop smoking.
The tobacco control centre is launching a campaign to ban smoking in the city’s public facilities. Bordeaux is the city of France where the most cigarettes are sold. The city council has decided to take sanctions on the one hand against coffee owners and on the other hand against customers who will smoke in the city’s public establishments. The majority of respondents on the street think this is a good idea.