More and more measures are emerging to try to reduce smoking in France. Currently, a quarter of French people are daily smokers. Since November 1st, it has been smoke-free month. It’s a challenge to try to stop smoking for 30 days – and if possible then continue to stop smoking. Anyone can register onlinethere are already more than 112,700 participants for this ninth edition.
“The tobacco-free month is one of the most effective measures”details Marie Van Der Schueren, tobacconist at CHU de Caen, “in certain studies, it has been shown that the month without tobacco allowed 900,000 people to stop smoking. We know that if people stop smoking for a month, there is a five times greater chance of stopping smoking. long-term smoking”.
No smoking around the CHU
In addition to the tobacco-free month, another system is becoming more and more common: the ban on smoking in certain outdoor public places, like around schools or hospitals. This is particularly the case around the Caen University Hospital, so that people who come to the hospital are in a healthy environment.
This device also allows “a denormalization“cigarettes according to Marie Van Der Schueren, particularly around schools.”Cigarettes must no longer appear in our daily lives.“, she explains, “if we achieve this denormalization, there will be fewer and fewer children who will smoke later.”
The idea of a “tobacco-free campus” is also being considered in Caen. The idea is that there are large public spaces where smoking is restricted to certain areas.
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