La ville de Bordeaux interdit la cigarette devant les écoles
In order to fight against smoking, the city of Bordeaux has decided to ban smoking within a perimeter of 50 meters around its schools. Nurseries, colleges and high schools should soon be affected.
The city of Bordeaux has just banned smoking around schools, a “protective measure” that the ecological mayor Pierre Hurmic wishes to extend around nurseries, colleges and high schools as a second step.
“The cigarette in the mouth at the exit of nursery and elementary schools, it is now prohibited”, welcomes the mayor who announced Thursday morning the establishment of “tobacco-free spaces” in front of these establishments.
The municipal decree signed on Wednesday provides for a ban on smoking within a perimeter of 50 meters around the entrance to the city’s schools, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The device materialized by panels will be gradually deployed. “And this ban will be recalled in the children’s liaison book” for parents, added the mayor.
A fine of 15 euros for offenders
Secondly, the municipality wishes to extend the measure to nurseries and early childhood establishments, then to colleges and high schools, in consultation with the Department and the Region.
Launched on the occasion of the “tobacco-free month”, this device responds to a proposal from the League against cancer to participate in the “denormalization” of tobacco use.
“More than a prohibition measure, it is above all a protective measure”, underlined Pierre Hurmic, who also intends to fight against cigarette butts in the street and “a form of air pollution responsible for passive smoking” .
For parents and other adult offenders, it will cost them theoretically 15 euros, but initially, the mayor “hopes to avoid fines”. “It is a measure above all educational,” he added.
An agreement, signed in 2019 between the city of Bordeaux and the League against cancer already provided for this measure, proposed in 2018 by the elected socialist, former minister and oncologist Michèle Delaunay but it had never been concretized by a regulatory act. .