Although millions of people in the world smoke from one to several cigarettes a day, the number of legal measures that are taken against it, since, it is considered that tobacco is addictive, harmful and very harmful to the smoker health and those around him. If we think travel to Spain and we are tobacco users, it is advisable to know the New Spanish Anti-Smoking Law which has been in force since January 2, 2011 despite the fact that Spain is a country where more than 30 percent of the population smokes and many campaigns have been launched against this law.
La smoking ban is a regulator that prohibits snuff consumption in places that are public and that limits the advertising of the companies that sell this product. The New Anti-Smoking Law 42/2010 It has sought to tighten the rules of the 2006 law where it was only indicated that there should be a division of zones between smokers and non-smokers in public places.
With the New Anti-Smoking Law Smoking has been totally prohibited in closed public spaces and in some open ones. For example, you can no longer smoke in bars, bingo halls, discos, restaurants, around hospitals, parks, schools, playgrounds, and others. There will be no cubicles for smokers in airports and the dissemination of advertising with people smoking in the different Spanish media will be limited.
La New Anti-Smoking Law indicates that you can only smoke in: Smoking clubs; in closed hotel rooms, although the hotel can only allow this activity in 30 percent of hotel rooms; in prisons, psychiatric centers, residences for the disabled and the elderly (which count as free zones outside their buildings).
Those who violate the law will have to pay a fine ranging from 30 euros to 600 thousand euros depending on the level of the offense committed, so we recommend that smokers traveling to Spain do not ignore the New Anti-Smoking Law.
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