France, home of historic Gitanes and Gauloises cigarettes with their iconic blue-and-white packaging, will require all tobacco companies to sell their wares in plain boxes from next year in an anti-smoking crackdown. Tobacco firms will from May 2016 have to sell cigarettes in plain packaging with photographs of internal organs damaged by smoking, with the brand appearing only in small lettering. Smoking will be banned in the presence of children in cars, as will the use of electronic cigarettes on public transport and offices. Just under one in four French adults smoke daily - about the average for the European Union, a 2012 report by the Paris-based OECD think tank found.
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