Smoking

What I disliked about this movie was that EVERYONE smoked all the time! They all were chain smokers. Being an American and someone who hates smoking, that part really bothered me. I mean, the whole damned family smoked and smoked and smoked! Maybe Europeans don't find it repulsive, but when they did away with it in our movies, I was all for it. To me, it's a disgusting and repulsively stinking habit. Both of my parents died horrible deaths due to smoking. I'm an only child who has never had a cigarette in my mouth but have breathing and lung problems thanks to the second hand smoke I was forced to breathe when I was growing up. I've been to England, Ireland, and most of the Bavarian countries and never saw anyone smoking as much as these people did. Is this a France thing?