France wants to ban smoking on all beaches as well as in public parks, forests and near schools after Emmanuel Macron promised to create “the first tobacco-free generation” by 2032, reports The Guardian.

“From now on, no-smoking areas will be the norm,” said the health minister, Aurélien Rousseau.
There are already 7,200 smoke-free zones in France, including in Nice, which was the first to set up a cigarette-free beach in 2012, gaining the approval of France’s League Against Cancer.
The government stated that central government would introduce a nationwide ban, rather than leaving the decision on smoke-free zones to individual local authorities. “We are now shifting the responsibility and establishing a principle which will become the rule,” Rousseau said.
According to the report, taxes on cigarettes will be increased: a pack of 20, which currently costs around EUR 11, will rise to EUR 12 by 2025 and to EUR 13 the following year.
Emmanuel Grégoire, the left-wing deputy mayor of Paris, said the capital was ahead of the government by setting up hundreds of smoke-free zones across the city, including in public playgrounds and outside schools, crèches and sports centres.