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While it is already prohibited at the national level to smoke in the playgrounds, the Alsatian capital wanted to set an example by becoming the first major French city to extend the ban to its parks and public gardens. The walkers of Strasbourg fall, since Sunday, on discrete placards white and green with the clear message: "Park without tobacco". As the price of tobacco rises again, the city council has decided, now the city parks will be nicotine free. Warning signs will bloom over the summer, first in six parks in the city and then in all green spaces. The municipality wants to show pedagogy to convey the message smoothly, thanks to "mediators health-tobacco."
The walker, the ad goes pretty well: "When we walk in a park, it's is that we are looking for a certain quality of air, a healthier environment than what we find in the city, so I find that we do not need to be bothered by the cigarette smoke of others ", consider Solange, a resident of Mulhouse who walks in the paths of the Orangery Park, the main garden of Strasbourg. The Alsatian capital wanted to set an example, becoming the first major French city to expand to its parks and public gardens the ban, already existing at the national level, smoking in playgrounds. "It's a good thing, it's the normal extension of the first decision," says 35-year-old Adeline, who came to watch the animals at the Orangery mini-zoo with her three-year-old twins and her five-year-old son.
According to the municipality of Strasbourg, not smoking in a park means less smoking. In France, the smoking rate has decreased but remains at 27%. "Even outside, it disturbs," says an elderly couple enjoying the sun on a bench.
More tobacco, more butts
For some, it's a ban too much: " You can not smoke anywhere! ", Antoinette irritated, while watching her two-year-old boy. "It's outdoors! Smokers, we already stand back as soon as there are children or non-smokers, "considers the young woman. On the other hand, she recognizes, by showing a butt floating in a fountain, that "it is rather that which is troublesome, it is disgusting".
The butts … small and difficult to pick up, they are omnipresent in cities and pollute up to 500 liters of drinking water, alert the town hall. They take 12 years to decompose and contain more than 7000 toxic components, including endocrine disruptors and some carcinogens.
In accordance with this ban to reduce waste, Nathalie, architect and follower of the Citadelle Park for a petanque with friends, "regret that there are no more garbage cans and ashtrays." Indeed, ashtrays are still the major absentees around the parks of Strasbourg.
The ban is now in place, and if that is not enough, fines of 68 euros could come to light in 2019. Note that throw his butt is already punishable by such a fine. A good opportunity to stop …
