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The Tobacco Bureau Believes that the New Law Runs the Risk of Expelling Smokers to Less Suitable Spaces

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The Tabaco Bureau, which groups together the whole value chain of the sector in Spain, has requested this Tuesday caution and a thorough analysis after the beginning of the procedures to amend Law 28/2005, of 26 December, of sanitary measures against smoking and regulation of the sale, supply, consumption and advertising of tobacco products. In a statement, the organization warns that the preliminary draft should be examined in depth, especially…

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The Tabaco Bureau, which groups together the whole value chain of the sector in Spain, has requested this Tuesday caution and a thorough analysis after the beginning of the procedures to amend Law 28/2005, of 26 December, of sanitary measures against smoking and regulation of the sale, supply, consumption and advertising of tobacco products. In a statement, the organization warns that the preliminary draft should be examined in depth, especially…

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The measure would have "a very limited effectiveness", since it could move meetings with smokers to closed spaces such as homes, "increasing exposure to smoke", they say from Hotelería de España.

"There is a peaceful coexistence between smokers and non-smokers." This is the argument put forward by tobacco growers and hoteliers to position themselves against the anti-smoking law promoted by the government. The tobacco industry operators and the hospitality employers have been critical of some of the measures contained in the draft anti-smoking law of the Ministry of Health that the Council of Ministers, in a first round, approved on Tuesd…

The new anti-tobacco law, which will have to be returned to the Council of Ministers after its passage through the advisory bodies and thereafter, will be processed in the Cortes Generales, reform a regulation dating from 2005.4 The preliminary draft submitted by the Ministry of Health to the Council of Ministers incorporates measures to strengthen prevention, protect the most vulnerable groups, especially young people, and provide greater legal…

A critical review of the new tobacco law and its ability to address smoking in Spain. Read more Evaluation of the new tobacco law in Spain and its implications in Actualidad.es.

The Council of Ministers is addressing this Tuesday the preliminary draft anti-smoking law, a rule that provides to equate e-cigarettes with conventional tobacco to prohibit vaping on terraces or bus stops, among others. In the first round. The text that is expected to be adopted today must still go through a round of consultations, in which it can be modified, before it is finally approved and the government sends it to Congress for parliamenta…

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