Smoking Ban In Spain

Smoking Ban In Spain

SPAIN'S revised no-smoking law, which will come into effect on January 2, will see it become the first country to ban smoking in some open outside public spaces. Only California and some other US states are that tough.

The decision to include some outside public spaces in the law is more than the former health minister Trinidad Jiménez originally planned because she believed smoking outdoors did not pose a risk to public health.

But pressure from the national committee for the prevention of smoking led to all parties agreeing to a much wider ban.