Resumen de France: : TV channel sanctioned for broadcasting programme during which guests smoked
On 20 November 2015 the Court of Appeal in Paris found against the heads of the TV channels M6 and Paris Première for broadcasting a programme during which three guests smoked. The programme ‘Rive Droite’ brings together, as for a dinner party, a number of well-known figures on the political and cultural scenes for an informal discussion on matters of politics, culture and society. Three of the guests (one musician, one journalist, and one female television presenter) on the programme broadcast on 9 November 2011 and available to view on the channel’s replay website for a further eight days thereafter were filmed during the programme while they were smoking. An anti-tobacco association had the person responsible for the website and the chairman of the channel summoned to appear before the criminal court to answer charges of illegal advertising for tobacco.
