About the (hopefully) upcoming smoking ban in Spain

[gary]

even if it had a negative effect on businesses, which it won't....

I think you're wrong on this one unless any ban is 100% enforced... were your statement to be as self evident as you seem to think there would be a queue of entrepreneurs clamouring to service the needs of non smoking folk across Spain....


Would people be able to smoke on terrazas? they do in the UK.

The ban is 100% enforced in the UK and pubs are struggling, some to do with the econiomic climate but many smokers, according to my friend in the trade, are electing to drink at home rather than be banished into the freezing cold with their pint - alcohol is also comparatively cheap when purchased from the supermarkets so there's a double whammy.

There were smoke free pubs and restaurants tried in the UK pre the ban, sadly most of them withered on the vine.