The Anti-Smoking movement (craze) is making its way to new countries at a fast rate, and Spain is the next country to take on non-smoking laws. Health minister Trinidad Jimenez announced plans for implementing a total smoking ban recently.
He said in an interview, "Right now, with the information we have and the study we are doing of the current smoking law, I think the society is mature enough… and we want to prohibit smoking in all public places."
To this date smoking has been banned in public places that are larger than 100 square meters, but many bars and restaurants failed to follow this law.
Spain is one of the key elements of the tobacco market so this could be a huge blow for tobacco companies, though large companies like Philip Morris have not commented on how the change will affect them.
It seems that Spain is soon to become less a relaxed place than it has been known to be. Sad…
[Via: WSJ]
