Smoking on the pebbles is over. The town hall of Nice, which was the first to ban cigarettes on part of its coastline in 2012, announced this Monday that “100% of the public beaches” in the city will be “labeled “Tobacco-free Beach” in the summer. 2024”.
A decision taken while the Riviera capital will host the UN Ocean Summit in 2025 and “150 million cigarette butts, a major source of pollution, are thrown into the streets” of Nice each year.
Private beaches are not affected
“My objective is twofold: to preserve the health of the people of Nice and to preserve the environment,” supports Christian Estrosi in a press release. The mayor announced this decision following his meeting this Monday with Laurence Cressin-Bensa, the new president of the Alpes-Maritimes Cancer League, he specifies.
In 2012, the Place du Centenaire in Nice, on the Promenade des Anglais, opposite the Albert I garden, became the first tobacco-free beach in France. Since then, the Riviera capital has approved four others. The mayor has decided to follow through with the process, along the entire coastline. Only the thirteen lots of private beaches will not be affected.