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The Disappearance of Tobacco Bars, Places of Sociability, Feeds the Progress of the Rn Vote, According to a Study

Summary by Le Monde
France has lost 18,000 bar-tobacco bars in 20 years. A "silent recomposition of the social infrastructure of the territories" that is not unrelated to the progress of the far right, according to a study by the Centre for Economic Research and its applications.

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Researcher Hugo Subtil has combined data from 18,000 bar-tobacco closures in 20 years with the results of the presidential and parliamentary elections over 25 years.

·Paris, France
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France has lost 18,000 bar-tobacco bars in 20 years. A "silent recomposition of the social infrastructure of the territories" that is not unrelated to the progress of the far right, according to a study by the Centre for Economic Research and its applications.

·Paris, France
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Café des Sports, la Civette, Café de la Gare... Between 2002 and 2022, Hexagone lost 18,000 of these irreplaceable places of structural sociability for society. This "silent hecatombe" is highlighted by a study of the very serious Centre for Economic Research and its applications. This is not the only cause of the rise of the RN but it constitutes a strong dimension. This Municipal article: The disappearance of bars-tobacco feeds the progress of…

The Centre pour la recherche économique et ses applications (Cepremap) has met, over twenty years, the electoral results with the 18,000 closures of bars-tobacco in France. Its unpublished study, published Friday, January 30, 2026, reveals the effects of the loss of socialisation on the far right vote.

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Le Monde broke the news in Paris, France on Monday, February 2, 2026.
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