Spanish News | Smoking Ban

In January 2011 the Spanish government banned smoking in all public enclosed spaces.The Ministry of Health has said that after a year the signs are very favourable.

They have calculated that there are 600,000 fewer smokers in Spain and that there has been a significant decrease in hospital admissions for ischaemic heart disease and heart attacks.They also say that there has been a 90% reduction in nicotine contamination.

It is contamination from the burning tobacco which contains so many toxic substances , which has been reduced.Nicotine is the least of the contaminants from smoking,It is the most addictive part of the process but its health effects are minimal compared with tobacco.

One downside of the smoking ban is the groups of smokers who congregate outside buildings of all types.They drop their cigarette ends and cause a new form of street rubbish which has become far more noticeable since the ban.

There is of course a solution to all of this and that is to use an electronic cigarette instead of a tobacco cigarette.There are no “butts ” to discard, there is no smoke to inhale ( just water vapour ) , no smell , no fire hazard , no ash trays and no health hazard as long as you choose a top quality electronic cigarette which uses a high quality synthetic nicotine.Inlife is an American company which manufactures such a cigarette and those who have changed to them say that they would never return to tobacco.So all of those Spanish smokers out there do have an alternative and then maybe we would see an end to all of those people hanging around in doorways and an end to unsightly cigarette ends too.