As France bans cigarettes in most public places, it stands to lose a strong cultural signifier.
The problem was not so much the speech as the speaker.
Christmas services and observances from China, Kenya, England, the U.S., India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Israel, France, and many more countries.
"I know of no subject, save perhaps baseball, on which the average American newspaper, even in the larger cities, discourses with unfailing sense and understanding"