Spain exacerbates recipes for smokers. Orders a distance limit

The Spanish Ministry of Health is preparing an exacerbation of smoking regulations. The amendment to the anti -smoking act is to extend the ban on smoking up to 15 meters from entrances to public buildings, including schools and health centers.

The project, which equals traditional and electronic cigarettes, provides a ban on smoking on the terraces of bars and restaurants, in university campus, sports facilities and public pools, bus stops, as well as in official vehicles and playgrounds.

According to the daily El Pais on Wednesday, smoking is also forbidden to be banned up to 15 meters from the entrances, including for public buildings, educational institutions or health centers.

“The anti -smoking reform will be as ambitious as possible,” emphasized Minister of Health Monica Garcia. She added that tobacco is responsible for about 30 percent. Cancer cases in Spain.

The new regulations also prohibit the sale of disposable and flavored e-cigarettes, which often attract young people.

Manufacturers will have a year from the adoption of the Act to introduce neutral packaging to avoid marketing incentives to buy tobacco.

The project prepared by the ministry will have to be voted in parliament, in which the government does not have a stable majority.

According to the data of the Ministry of Health of December 2024, the number of smokers in Spain has fallen to the lowest level in the last 30 years. Every day he burns about a quarter of the population between the ages of 15 and 64; It is 7 percentage points. less compared to research from 2022.

From Madrid Marcin Furdyna (PAP)

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