No smoking on (one) beach…

No more cigarette butts on Centenaire beach!

Estrosi and president of the LNCC (Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer), Gilbert Lenoir, have called for other cities and towns in France to follow suit and ban smoking on the beach – an idea that is supported by over 75 per cent of the nation.

The beach in question is central Centenaire beach, which already acts as the city’s wheel-chair friendly beach.

This law is not likely to hit smokers hard and critics have already called the motion "pointless", arguing that if the ban is going to be effective it should be imposed on every beach in Nice. Perhaps admirable to some, the law will still permit smoking on all of the other 19 beaches.

Questions have been raised as to whether the law should have been reversed – allowing smoking on just one beach, and outlawing it on the other 19 beaches.

Despite saying he is "proud" of Nice’s anti-smoking efforts, it seems Estrosi is not willing to be particularly ground-breaking in his ‘sans tabac’ policies.

Elsa Carpenter