PARIS (AP) — Brigitte Bardot lounged barefoot on a Saint-Tropez beach, drawing languorous puffs from her cigarette. Another actor, Jean-Paul Belmondo, swaggered down the Champs-Élysées with smoke ...

Contrary to what many people think, stunting — or a child being unexpectedly short for their age — is not only the result of poor childhood nutrition, but also can be attributed to repeated childhood ...

France’s relationship with tobacco has long been fraught with contradiction. Air France did not ban smoking on all its flights until 2000, years after major U.S. carriers began phasing it out in ...

After glamorizing tobacco for decades, France is preparing for its most sweeping smoking ban yet. Beginning July 1, smoking will be outlawed in virtually all outdoor public areas where children ...

Sweden outlawed smoking in outdoor restaurant terraces, bus stops and schoolyards back in 2019. Spain extended its bans to café terraces, spaces still exempt in France—at least for now.

Smoking has defined identity, fashion and cinema here for so long that the new measure feels like a quiet French revolution in a country whose relationship with tobacco is famously complex.