Comments on: "No Está Permitido Fumar" in Spain http://www.travelsignposts.com/wordpress/spain/spain-smoking-ban Trip reports and latest additions to the Travel Signposts website Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: Helen Page http://www.travelsignposts.com/wordpress/spain/spain-smoking-ban#comment-386 Helen Page Fri, 04 Mar 2011 09:43:22 +0000 http://www.travelsignposts.com/wordpress/?p=3939#comment-386 Nick, thanks for your update from Nerja. As non-smokers, we’re very pleased to hear that the no-smoking ban is working.
Our congratulations to the Spanish authorities for enforcing the ban, and to you for your good attitude!

Cheers,
Helen

]]> By: Nick http://www.travelsignposts.com/wordpress/spain/spain-smoking-ban#comment-378 Nick Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:00:46 +0000 http://www.travelsignposts.com/wordpress/?p=3939#comment-378 I live in Nerja, a small coastal town in Andalucia. Since the smoking ban came into effect I have seen no intentional transgressions of the new law, although have to admit that at the beginning I did light up automatically on a couple of occasions. I was soon taken to task for my forgetfulness!

As anywhere that has brought in smoking bans there are rebels. A bar in Marbella was shut down this month after the owner repeatedly flouted the law, and after refusing to pay the huge fine that resulted his business was closed. There have been other examples of businesses having to be fined to come into line, but in the end the owners will suffer if they allow their customers to smoke. This is what has made smoking bans effective around the world. It is honourable to stand up for your customers’ rights, if that is what you believe them to be, but if you lose your livelihood in the process you might live to regret it.

So the smoking ban has more or less experienced a calm introduction, and it will only get more normal. I don’t like it, but if you have to live somewhere where you have to go outside to smoke, the Costa Del Sol is not the worst place to suffer!

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