No Puffing on the Patio: Spain to Ban Smoking and Vaping on Terraces, Pools, and More
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Vapeers, e-cigarettes and heated tobacco are going to be equated with conventional in the reform that lasts Health to end a decade-long indefinite: they are only banned in health centers, education centers or transportation; now they can't be consumed in bars or terraces from "glamour" to "damage reduction": this changes the tactics of the industry to undermine anti-tobacco policies Vapear, use e-cigarettes or use heated tobacco is only prohibit…
About 60,000 people die a year in Spain due to diseases attributable to tobacco, of which around 2,500 in the province of Alicante. 10% of these deaths are of passive smokers, that is, people who do not smoke but who have been exposed to cigarette smoke. Passive smoking causes ischemic heart disease, lung cancer and infant mortality, hence doctors are in favor of the new state law that will ban smoking and vaping in the same spaces.
No Puffing on the Patio: Spain to Ban Smoking and Vaping on Terraces, Pools, and More
Vapes Go Up in Smoke — Spain’s Ministry of Health is cracking down hard on both smokers and vapers, with a sweeping new anti-tobacco law set to ban lighting up in terraces, work vehicles, university campuses, pools, and party venues. And yes — that includes your beloved vape pen. Health Minister Mónica García made it crystal clear: there’s no safe smoke — and that goes for those fruity e-cigs too. “There is no such thing as healthy tobacco,” she…
The spokesman for the Spanish Association Against Cancer, Laura del Horno, applauded the Minister's announcement regarding the updating of the Anti-Tobacco Law, on the expansion of tobacco smoke-free spaces and their equipping for e-cigarettes and heated tobacco.
Health plans to start the process of the future anti-smoking law “in a few weeks”, as soon as some outstanding fringes are completed, according to the progress made this Tuesday in Congress, its holder, Mónica García, who reiterated that it will be a reform “as ambitious as possible” of the current legislation. The last draft of the preliminary draft, to which EFE has had access, prioritizes “the right of the non-smoking population to breathe un…
The Spanish government is willing to give the same category of harmfulness to conventional tobacco and vaping devices. The new Tobacco Law envisages giving the same penal treatment to these...
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