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Tag Archives: spain
Spanish Smoking Ban NOT to be amended?
H/T Lecroix Kwdjer in the comments, and after reporting a few days ago that the Spanish smoking ban looked set to be relaxed, it now looks like it isn’t: El Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad no tiene previsto modificar … Continue reading
Spanish Smoking Ban to be Amended?
H/T to Lecroix Kwdjer (aka Hal) in the comments for the following news from Spain. El Club de Fumadores por la Tolerancia espera que la nueva ministra de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad, Ana Mato, acometa la flexibilización de la actual ley … Continue reading
Epicurus
While thinking about the modern religion – or cult – of environmentalism, which seems to be a throwback to an irrational era, I found myself reading Peter Jones’ Guide To The Classics. I say ‘found myself reading’ because, looking in … Continue reading
A Separate Reality
The current draconian Spanish smoking ban came into force on 2 Jan 2011. Translated from El Correo. Doctors and restaurateurs have declared war. Navarra Basque Society for the Prevention of Smoking entered yesterday into the controversy of the ‘smoking ban’ … Continue reading
Spanish Protests Continue
In Spain, the struggle continues. It’s International Tobacco Control v. the Spanish hospitality industry. 21 Feb 2011, The raw translation: Hundreds of hoteliers of Valencia and Madrid -300 police said at the beginning of the merger, have cut several lanes … Continue reading
Mad Utopian Fantasies
Last night, Leg iron wrote: Probably as close as a year ago I would have laughed off talk of Common Purpose or One World Government or the Bilderbergers as tinfoil hattery. I’m not laughing now. I can’t say I’ve ever … Continue reading
Spanish Protests Continue
In Spain, one month after the new smoking ban came into force, protest continues. Last week there were 884 complaints about breaches of the smoking ban, making a total of nearly 1500 for January. The following video shows some of … Continue reading
Fernando Tejedor
More Spanish news. ALICANTE – THE knock on effect of Spain introducing anti-smoking legislation is now emerging. With no smoking allowed inside bars and cafes and without a terrace on which customers could smoke, many small cafe bar owners have … Continue reading
Creating New Realities
H/T to F2Cscotland for this article in typicallyspanish: The WHO’s Armando Peruga said the government must show it is prepared to enforce it [the smoking ban]. The World Health Organisation has warned Spain that the first six months of the … Continue reading
A New International Brigade?
Josie Appleton in Spiked: As in 1936, a battle is playing out in Spain that resounds beyond her borders. On one side are the government and health establishment, who on 2 January introduced one of the strictest smoking bans in … Continue reading
