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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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[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 165 points 2 years ago (10 children)

What the FUCK is a French man supposed to do after sex now?

[–] AJB_l4u@lemm.ee 71 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] jumperalex@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

that's "more of zee sex" to you buddy

[–] MTLion3@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

Always the answer

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

You ever eat a crêpe after a good ménage?

[–] Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee 57 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago

You act like wine and a baguette isn't already at their bedside

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Crème the brûlée?

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Buy Italian cigarettes?

[–] Ataraxia@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago

Roll a doob.

[–] Bigmouse@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Close the grave again.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Hit a fat cloud on his vape

[–] MrMukagee@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 2 years ago

Doggy style?

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 85 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Wait, my vision of a man wearing a striped shirt and a beret smoking a cigarette is not actually what French people are like?

[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 94 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not anymore. It's all changing for the worse. I hear they're coming after the baguettes next. The mimes are speechless.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)
[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago

Maybe that is the mime speaking for the first time since childhood.

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[–] TedJ70@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago

Well steal my onions and call me Jacques!

[–] jumperalex@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Jokes aside, I swear they really do walk around with baguettes in hand. 3 days in Paris, sitting at multiple cafes, and we saw it in the morning, at lunch, in the evening. Men, Women, Children, well dressed, poorly dressed (for a Parisian), black, white, brown, blue, green, every combination in between, we'd see someone walking around with baguettes. I've lived in multiple cities and visited even more in the US and Europe. Never have I seen so many people walking around with bread!

[–] 1bluepixel@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People eat bread and pick it up from their local bakery then walk home with it instead of stuffing it in the trunk of their SUV to drive two blocks. What do you expect.

[–] jumperalex@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

You're right of course, nor was I making any judgements. I loved seeing it! It made me smile. As did the quintessential "scowling french waiter" standing 15ft in front of us on the other side of the side walk, with apron and and all. And despite a previous poster's comment about their infamous cultural rudeness, these slightly overweight, non-french speaking Americans didn't experience any overt rudeness at all. If they were bad mouthing us quietly in french they did a great job of hiding it. [shrug]

I would visit Paris again in a heartbeat; though I would never fly Air France nor pass through CDG if you paid me. Such a horrible experience. Guess we'll fly BA into LHR and take the chunnel or a ferry for the experience.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's because fresh baguettes are damn hard to beat.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And hard to eat if they aren't fresh anymore.

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[–] spez@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

Yes monsieur.

[–] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 7 points 2 years ago

Well you still have 50% of the adult population regularly smoking so nothing change on this part.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

“Heuh heuh”

background bistro accordion music gets louder

[–] AJB_l4u@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago
[–] Sacreblew@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When I went to Paris this summer, lots of locals were smoking. The odor of Paris was urine and cigarettes.

[–] FrostbyteIX@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Nothing speaks "city of love" like the smell of stale piss and burnt tobacco at the Eiffel Tower!

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[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (32 children)

If tobacco/nicotine itself isn't banned then this could potentially get a lot of chainsmokers to switch to a relatively healthier form of smoking like dry herb vaporizers.

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[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ironic that back in the 50s physicians used to prescribe smoking as a health benefit! 🙄🤣

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

*Actors acting as physicians on television

[–] andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It helps against one disease, as far as I know (believe me I'm a doctor.).

The disease is ulcerative colitis.

Fun fact: Alcohol improves symptom of one disease too. The disease is called essential tremor.

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[–] Zstom6IP@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Ironic, isnt it?

[–] stown@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't most French smokers roll their own?

[–] tch4ng@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Not really. In general, those who rolls their own do this because it's less expensive

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[–] ccdfa@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As far as I'm aware, 1637 is still made in France. Does this article only refer to pre-rolled cigarettes?

[–] CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 5 points 2 years ago

As opposed to cigarettes that haven't been rolled yet? Isn't that just called tobacco and papers? Pretty sure cigarettes means cigarettes, but I haven't read the article

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Is this just a profit saving measure?

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