First of all, we should have an idea about the general background of smoking laws. A recent scientific research demonstrates that tobacco causes a large number of some current diseases. Consequently, Governments all over Europe have decided to bring it under control. However, the laws are not the same in all the different countries of Europe.
Although I am not exactly an specialist in the topic, I will try to explain something about some of the measures taken by Governments. One would probably wonder why smoking laws in Spain are so lenient compared to other countries. I reckon that at the very beginning, the idea was almost the same as it was in other European countries.
But no sooner did the Government announce it will ban smoking in certain public places, the entrepreneurs started to find different ways to avoid obeying the law. Instead of looking for a deterrent to enforce the law, smoking laws in Spain were softened. Furthermore, some restaurants are allowed to build a partition between a non-smoking area and a smoking one. Most of the times the difference between being in
one zone or the other is just a few steps space. Unfortunately, this is just a petty example in a million.
On the other hand, if you know anyone from other European countries, for instance from Italy, you could probably have heard that they do not have problems of smell on their clothing or hair anymore. Nevertheless, smoking causes more important problems than smell such as lung cancer and other respiratory diseases. Not only does it affect the smokers' health but also the second-hand smokers's too. In my opinion, the Spanish Government should reconsider their measures and start to take the smoking laws more seriously. Quite a few changes have to be made in our society to make us appreciate the danger of all the problems caused due to legal drugs such as tobacco, as well as all those which have become an important part of our society.
by Judith (2av)
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