French Rail Will Ban Smoking By Year's End
Posted on: Monday, 15 August 2005, 15:00 CDT
France's SNCF rail organization plans on banning smoking in all its trains by the year's end, the company's head said Monday.
The announcement adds to a growing trend to ban smoking in public areas in France, including restaurants, a trend that has met with mixed success.
We're going to propose between here and the end of the year 100 percent of trains that are non-smoking, Guillaume Pepy, general director for SNCF, told Radio Monte Carlo Monday.
Smoking was banned on France's high-speed TGV train last December. Pepy said, the train company has not lost its smoking clientele, possibly because the SNCF operates all the country's trains.
Pepy said the company would also clean its train compartments to rid them of the taint of tobacco. The cleaning would take at least a year, he said, and cost more than $6 million.
Source: United Press International
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