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SMOKING IN SPAIN: TOBACCO BAN IN RESTAURANTS AND BARS - ON THE BEACH, THE FOOTBALL AND BULL FIGHTING ALLOWED

butts! (Photo: Schulze)

SPAIN LIVE - The announced rebellion took place. After imposition of the total smoking ban, the large English community joined the tobacco friends to their fate: it will be registered only "a few violations," satisfied the government announced. Since January 2011, in bars, restaurants and other enclosed spaces that are open to the public, banned smoking. The ban also applies to all tourist facilities.

"eradicate tobacco use is a social emergency," said Emilio Alba, president of the English Cancer Research Society. This is particularly true for Spain: About a third of Spaniards over 16 years of smoking - significantly more than in other EU countries, especially the young people in Spain often uses questionable to smoke. About 50,000 people die annually in the southern European country from the effects of tobacco.

only in the open air may still be puffed quite uninhibited: On the beach, on the streets, in bullfighting arenas, on the football field and the university campus. In beer gardens and on restaurant terraces smoking remains also allowed. Prohibited is the blue haze, however, children's playgrounds schoolyards and outdoor grounds of hospitals.

For tourists important to know that hotels up to 30 percent of their Reserve rooms for smokers may. This smoke-filled rooms may be by no means be awarded to Non smoking. So if you do not smell like tobacco should, when booking a hotel specifically insist on a smoke-free rooms.

on Spain's airports, there is also no smoking rooms more, earlier in those who prevailed in the light clouds of smoke production traveler, always dense fog. In public transport, at stations and in the office or other workplaces were closed on cigarettes already untersagt.Verstöße against Spain's Anti-Tobacco Act are punishable with fines up to 600,000 € of 30.

Spain hosts who had strongly against the smoking ban even looked close to bankruptcy, have found a solution: All locations are provided for the smoking tables and chairs in front of the door. Mobile gas heaters provide at cold temperatures that do not freeze the tobacco friends. Incidentally, the reports show that the turnover is not decreased in the pubs, but now even risen slightly. Ralph Schulze

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