Overview
- The draft would prohibit smoking on restaurant and café terraces, at hotel outdoor pools, in stadiums, and at bus and train stops.
- A 15‑meter no‑smoking buffer would apply at entrances to public buildings, schools, health centers, sports venues, libraries, and children’s areas, and smoking would be barred in work vehicles.
- E‑cigarettes and heated‑tobacco devices would be regulated on the same terms as conventional cigarettes under the proposal.
- Beaches are outside the state bill because municipalities control them, though many councils have designated smoke‑free stretches, including 53 beaches in the Balearic Islands.
- Health organizations broadly welcome the plan, citing Spain’s roughly eight million smokers and 50,000–60,000 tobacco‑related deaths each year, while the hospitality sector warns of possible revenue losses.