PARIS -- The smell of cigarette and cigar smoke may never completely disappear from Le Saint Claude, a combination bar, café, betting shop and tobacconist in southeastern Paris. But France's new smoking ban, which took effect yesterday, has altered the chemistry of the place.
"They are taking away one of the last little social pleasures we have left," said François Deille, a 65-year-old lifelong smoker who is one of the bar's regulars. "To have a little drink, watch the races on TV with my friends and smoke cigarettes - what harm were we doing?"
Like most of the patrons who usually puffed away non-stop in the bar, he was not smoking. But next to him at a rickety square table in the little bar, his pal Jean-Luc Lesbordes was in open rebellion. Full Story
"They are taking away one of the last little social pleasures we have left," said François Deille, a 65-year-old lifelong smoker who is one of the bar's regulars. "To have a little drink, watch the races on TV with my friends and smoke cigarettes - what harm were we doing?"
Like most of the patrons who usually puffed away non-stop in the bar, he was not smoking. But next to him at a rickety square table in the little bar, his pal Jean-Luc Lesbordes was in open rebellion. Full Story
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