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A French law banning advertising for the sale of fossil fuels, one of several measures in legislation to combat climate change, came into effect this week, with a temporary exemption on publicity for natural gas.

Paris authorities have lodged a complaint that could lead to pimping charges over the agressive advertising outside university buildings by a website urging students to 'Go out with a Sugar Daddy or a Sugar Mama' for 'romance, passion and no student loans'.

Marisol Touraine says that wine and alcohol lobby in France is powerful and has 'got it into people’s heads that wine is good for the health'.

An amendment to the 1991 Evin Law which bans TV and cinema ads for alcohol, draws disticntion between advertising and 'information'.

MP and former skin cancer specialist Michèle Delaunay says tanning-induced melanoma is second-fastest-growing form of cancer among women.