Overview

• The government’s bill would prohibit smoking on restaurant and bar terraces, at outdoor hotel pools and public swimming pools, at concerts and football stadiums, and at bus and train stops.
• E‑cigarettes and heated tobacco products would be regulated on par with conventional cigarettes under the draft.
• The plan includes a 15‑meter no‑smoking buffer at entrances to public buildings, a ban in work vehicles, and a public ban on smoking for minors.
• Beaches remain under municipal control, though more than 800 stretches nationwide, including 53 in the Balearics, are already marked smoke‑free by local councils.
• Health groups broadly back the move as a public‑health measure, while critics fault the omission of tax hikes and plain packaging and parts of the hospitality sector warn of lost revenue.