The city of Nice has volunteered to make the Azurean capital the first city in France to adopt the “No-Smoking Beach” label, which is a variant of the national “No-Smoking Area” label created by the League Against Cancer.
This label aims to offer the general public, in partnership with local authorities, smoke-free spaces that are not subject to the smoking ban under the Xavier Bertrand decree, in which smoking will be prohibited by municipal decree.
Thanks to the signing of a partnership agreement with the League today, the city of Nice has once again initiated a strong action in the field of public health.
A COMMON OBJECTIVE
The League Against Cancer and the City of Nice have a common goal: the fight against cancer.
We are all faced with human misfortune and the terrible suffering caused by this poison that is tobacco (15,000 people killed every day worldwide and 60,000 per year in France). Tobacco is responsible for 90% of lung cancers.
The city of Nice is committed
• Public health is a strong axis of municipal policy with various significant actions in prevention, screening, and treatment (Cancer Plan, free breast cancer screening, etc.). The city fully supports the actions implemented by the League Against Cancer.
• October 2011: Christian Estrosi signed the Killers-Payers petition for the tobacco industry to compensate part of the damage caused by tobacco out of their profits;
Nice, the first to be awarded the “No-Smoking Beach®” label: Centenary Beach.
• The city of Nice and the League Against Cancer signed an agreement today on the modalities of implementation and monitoring of the “No-Smoking Beaches” operation.
• The municipal decree prohibiting smoking on this beach will be issued within 3 months from the signing of the agreement and will set the terms for the application of this prohibition.
• Fine: first-class infraction up to €38.
