Starting today people in French cafes will no longer be permitted to smoke while they drink their coffee or wine. I certainly am sympathetic to the any fears the French might have to loosing their traditional culture and I felt measures like this were draconian when they were past in my state.
What I find striking about the USA Today article is how often it refers (four times) to the French fear of 'becoming American'. Maybe the article overstates itself but if not I wonder why the French mind is so obsessed with the United States that they bring us to this matter which to a very dramatic extent could not have less to do with us.
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