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France to quit making cigarettes as last factory prepares to close The last remaining factory making cigarettes in France is set to close by the end of 2023, the site's owner told its employees this week.

Issued on: 01/10/2023 - 09:08

The Manufacture Corse des Tabacs (Macotab), on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, is the last to manufacture cigarettes in France since the closure of another in the centre of the country in 2016.

Around 30 employees work at the Corsican site, down from 143 in the early 1980s.

The factory makes cigarettes on behalf of industry giant Philip Morris, which recently signalled it was ending the contract.

Contraband packets have also cut into legal sales, according to the factory's owner Seita, the former French state-owned tobacco monopoly that is now part of the British company Imperial Tobacco.

Seita had already closed France's last tobacco processing factory in 2019, in the traditional growing region of the Dordogne in the south-west.

Some former factories in Marseille and Lyon have found new as cultural and exhibition spaces, or even a university.

Kicking the habit Efforts by authorities to curb smoking and its health hazards, not least by prohibiting puffing in restaurants and cafes and banning ads for cigarettes, have prompted sharp reductions in cigarette sales in recent years.

Smoking remains the main cause of avoidable deaths in France, according to Santé Publique France health agency, which estimates 75,000 tobacco deaths each year.

The bulk of European production these days is in Germany and Poland.

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[-] JasSmith@kbin.social 59 points 1 year ago

Kicking the habit Efforts by authorities to curb smoking and its health hazards, not least by prohibiting puffing in restaurants and cafes and banning ads for cigarettes, have prompted sharp reductions in cigarette sales in recent years.

While I support bans in restaurants and cafes, I don't support prohibition, which is what a lot of Western nations are aiming at. We learned our lesson during the alcohol prohibition years in America, and for the last 70 years around the world with marijuana prohibition. The social effects are far worse when forcing recreational drugs underground. Educate support addiction programs, but don't ban.

[-] LwL@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

Ban use in public in general. I don't want to be forced to walk through a cloud of cigarette smoke in front of a train station or waiting at a traffic light any more than in a restaurant. People can do what they want at home but constantly having to deal with drug addicts polluting the air around me shouldn't be accepted.

[-] crypticthree@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago
[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I don't need a cigarette to get to work or the grocery store.

Congratulations on discovering false equivalency.

[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Neither do you need a car in a well planned city.

[-] Perfide@reddthat.com 15 points 1 year ago

Cool, I don't live in a well planned city and I would have to immigrate out of the country to do so, or wait likely decades for reforms to make their way here. In the mean time, I'll still need a car. I don't need to smoke a cig in public.

[-] Event_Horizon@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Nah mate. Just rip up the streets and relay them yourself, it's so simple smh.

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago

I would need to drive to move to a different city. Checkmate.

[-] eltimablo@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Shame living in a city absolutely sucks.

[-] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Rural shitholes are MUCH worse, I spent 14 years of my life in one and I'll never live in a small town again. 90% of them are half full of worthless drunks and losers and the rest are constantly gossiping about everyone else. Do something dumb? 99% of the town will know before you even wake up the next day.

Cities are WAY better than small town shit holes where everyone is up in everyone else's business. Fuck small towns and the people that live in them.

[-] Twentytwodividedby7@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Europe is working on it. They will ban the sale of new gas powered vehicles by 2035

[-] Octavio@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

When this was announced, my opinion was that only hobbyists would even be interested in gas powered cars by 2035. I have to admit I thought the transition to electric vehicles would pick up pace a little quicker more suddenly than it has so far, but there’s still time to have my prediction come true.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Weren't they by 2032 earlier and 2030 before that?

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

… and CARB states in the US

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