Spain to extend smoking ban to bars, restaurants next year

Thursday, June 03 2010

(AFP)

MADRID — Spain will amend its anti-tobacco law to extend a smoking ban to bars, cafes, restaurants and all other enclosed public spaces in the country next year, Health Minister Trinidad Jimenez said Wednesday.

The new rules will exempt hotel rooms and private smoking clubs, as well as prisons and psychiatric hospitals because people in these institutions "do not have the freedom to have private spaces", she told a news conference.

"Smoking will be allowed in terraces, at stadiums, at bullrings, at all open spaces," the minister added...story continues here