Smoking?

Is this frowned upon in Paris? Are there restaurants/bars/clubs that even have smoking? I am not so much worried about smoking in the restaurants as much as the pubs/clubs.

What about while walking around, is it rude to throw down a cigerette bud on the ground, or while waiting in line to see a site? I am just wondering if I should quit for those 8 days we are in Paris or it it won%26#39;t be a big deal.

Paris in 2 weeks whooo hoooo!!!!!!!!!

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%26quot;it rude to throw down a cigerette bud on the ground%26quot;

good grief, this is rude even in Detroit!!! It is LITTER, that is always rude to throw on the ground.

Other than that rant, plenty of people smoke in Paris, although it is no longer allowed in restaurants, and perhaps your hotel. Just see what others are doing... EXCEPT for that littering thing.

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Well I didn%26#39;t mean to just throw it down and be rude about it if there is a perfectly fine ash tray beside me!! I just ment if it was in an alley way or the side of the street and there are no ash trays, and if I see other cigerette buds on the ground then would it be ok? I am by no means %26quot;rude%26quot; in that aspect hence the reason why I am asking about it on TA!!

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sorry, it%26#39;s still rude. but what you need is one of those %26#39;pocket ashtrays%26#39; that Paris city is handing out to encourage locals to clean up their act.

…blogspot.com/2008/01/update-on-cendrier-mai…

- where to get one

mego-killer.com/pocket-ashtray-megokiller.ht…

Paris offers you free pocket ashtrays (from a blog site) 2008-01-11 12:14:00

Ok well smoking is now prohibited in cafes, restaurants, clubs and bars in France; but it doesn%26#39;t mean you are not allowed to smoke in the streets! (I can see the happy smoker smiling!)And in order to do so, the city of Paris makes available these pocket-ashtrays with a %26quot;pretty%26quot; Mairie de Paris logo!So now you want to know where to go to get one of these, right?It isn%26#39;t said on paris.fr but I found on another site that says %26quot;these pocket ashtrays will be distribute in 4 emblematic places within Paris during two weekends and the project will be repeated on Fall 2008.

paris.wantedineurope.com/news/news.php…

specially made pocket ashtrays will be handed out at the doors of four of the city’s most famous eateries

...and where to get one in advance....

www.ebay.com search on %26quot;pocket ashtray%26quot;

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gotta go, but it%26#39;s been fun nagging you. :)

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Awesome, thank you so much for the information! A pocket ash tray sounds like it would come in handy! Better than putting it out and then putting it in a plastic zip lock bag.

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Are they allowed to smoke on hop on/hop off buses?

tour buses? boat rides? museums?

I%26#39;m allergic and need to be prepared.

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Many bars and restaurants have outside areas where you can still smoke. There are so many restaurants and bistros that you will find one where you can smoke.

Mint tins make excellent pocket ashtrays too if you can%26#39;t get hold of the free ones. Alternatively if there is nothing around put your cigarette butt near to a drain entrance in the gutter. These are washed regularly and all rubbish is taken away.

I am not sure if any restaurants in Paris still have smoking areas indoors. I haven%26#39;t been there since the indoor smoking ban. In Rome there was one restaurant that allowed indoor smoking - it had to have a separate air circulation system, a sealed door between the smoking/non smoking area and separate toilets. Perhaps the expense of all of this would put many restaurant owners off creating an indoor smoking area - especially when it is so nice to sit outdoors.

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I thought the new smoking ban this year included all hotels. Is this not the case? The hotel we have chosen for this October doesn%26#39;t have anything on it%26#39;s web site about smoking, but I just thought that was because it was redundant now.

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The smoking ban includes the common areas of hotels (reception, lobby, restaurants, etc.), but rooms are specifically exempt and it%26#39;s up to the hotel to decide whether to have smoking rooms or not.

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As noted, tossing cigarette butts is indeed littering and seems an especially heinous %26#39;crime%26#39; in a city as beautiful as Paris...but in the general scheme of things, many who would demonize the occasional cigarette butt in the street, wouldn%26#39;t think the same amount of other %26#39;litter%26#39; that gets occasionally dropped by non-smokers as nearly so horrible. But a zip-lock bag, mint tin, pocket cigarette butt receptacle all work equally well for the purpose.

This from the Paris Tourism web site--

SMOKING PROHIBITION IN PUBLIC PLACES--

Decree n°2006-1386 dated 15 November 2006 has determined the implementation conditions of smoking prohibition in collective venues.

First, smoking was banned in all enclosed and covered public places, workplaces, health centers, schools and/or institutions designed to receive, educate or host the underage, as well as in all public transport.

Since January 1st 2008, this ban has been extended to so-called “gathering venues” : hotels, restaurants, bars, tobacco shops, casinos and nightclubs. **However, smoking is allowed on café, restaurant and pub terraces, as long as they are not covered, or enclosed**.(emphasis added)

Opening smoking areas is allowed, yet not compulsory, and these areas are subjected to certain conditions issuing from the effective regulation. Nevertheless, customers will be entitled to no service within these areas.

And this on %26#39;..Tobacco Free..%26#39; locations--

…parisinfo.com/paris-restaurants/…

Non-smoking and %26#39;tobacco-free%26#39; venues and areas are slowly but most certainly increasing in Paris....but there are still plenty of outdoor café and restaurant locations where you may still smoke though. Smoking in most public buildings and aboard trains and buses have been prohibited for years. Smoking in the public spaces (lobbies, beakfast areas, bars, etc) of most hotels is either prohibited or frowned upon...but smoking in hotel rooms (unless designated %26#39;..Non-Smoking/Tobacco Free..%26#39;) is still permitted. For the most part, the issue of smoking hasn%26#39;t reached the near-hysteric proportions in Paris that it has in the US quite yet. But even in Paris, public smoking is on the wane.

My favorite %26#39;..non-smoking..%26#39; moment in Paris was several years ago on a warm day in July, while sitting at an outdoor table at a café near Invalides...enjoying a well chilled glass of wine, a cigarette and a few minutes sitting comfortably in the shade. A group of three or four women, unmistakenly American tourists, walked by and began making exaggerated hand gestures waving away the aroma of the errant cigarette smoke of myself and a few other patrons as they passed. Their %26#39;..performance..%26#39; was so patently contrived and absurdly comic that I watched them down the street...where they boarded a large tour motorcoach...waiting with engine running, belching diesel fumes....so that their tour bus would be comfortably cool when they returned. I couldn%26#39;t possibly know....but I rather doubt that these twits saw the least bit of contradiction in the relative situations. Sometimes ya%26#39; just gotta%26#39; love the dogged determination of hysterics.