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Adrian wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 16:11:11 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

try looking at the club-med countries

I have. Last time I was there, Spain (or the part of it I was in) seemed
to ignore the smoking indoors in a public place stuff. Like in bars. I'm
sure they ignore other such laws too.

When we went to Rome in 2005, the smoking ban there seemed to be very
enthusiastically obeyed - seriously. We were gobsmacked at how much so.

thinks
Oh, wait a sec. That was two years before the UK smoking ban came in. And
11 EU countries still don't have a smoking ban in place, and only seven
have bans as widespread as the UK (including Spain).

Scotland has more restrictive laws against smoking than England, and they
started earlier. It's not a "UK" thing.

Mmm. I wonder how such an EU-wide law could be so variably implemented.
Unless... No, surely not. But we keep getting told everything is down to
the EU telling us what to do...?

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