A member of parliament has proposed taxing cigarettes to fund the fight against fires caused by cigarette butts.

Republican MP Yannick Neuder, a former Minister of Health, is preparing a bill to create a financial contribution from the tobacco industry, intended to fund the prevention and suppression of fires caused by cigarette butts, as well as the cleanup of soil and water contaminated by this waste. This initiative comes after a summer marked by several widely publicized forest fires and reignites the debate on the adequacy of existing cigarette butt management systems, starting with Alcome, the eco-organization currently responsible for this issue in France.