I'm on work experience https://www.phantomconnections.space/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=751627&p=861334 my1tube The cigarette has been the essential indicator of Left-Bank bohemian cool, of sensual feminism (see Catherine Deneuve) and, in its yellow maize-paper incarnation, of the honest peasant guile which underpins the entire nation. For some at least, it has now become a symbol of resistance for a people which does as it's told, but only up to a point. Then it does what it wants. Since the 2008 ban, and despite some full-frontal anti-tobacco campaigns, the number of French smokers has actually increased - from around 25% to 30% of the adult population (though there's been a dip this year after price rises).