13 Dec 2010 12:18:

I wouldn't be surprised!

 

July 20?? LOL

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13 Dec 2010 12:12:

"I thought the new smoking ban was due to start 2nd Jan 2011."

That's what I heard too.

 

 

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07 Dec 2010 14:23:

I was a smoker when the smoking bans were introduced and thought Spain had got it right.

In Spain small bars/cafes under a certain size could chose to declare as smoking or non-smoking. Bars/cafes over that size could have both smoking and non-smoking areas but they needed their own toilets and entrance/exits.

Unfortunately there were enough loopholes so in true Spanish fashion everyone continued to do whatever the hell they liked!

I worked as a holiday rep. in Salou in the summer of 2004 (the best summer of my life!). The smoking ban had just been introduced in the Republic of Ireland. When we were doing bus transfers for punters from the Dublin flights, the fact that they could enjoy a smoke with their pint was a major part of our sales pitches.

I returned to Salou a few years later in 2007 and to my surprise most of the tourist bars frequented by Irish people were non smoking. I can only assume it was punter led.

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06 Dec 2010 12:34:

On January 9th at 3pm, I will have been off cigarettes for 2 years and having recently moved to Spain (June this year) it is a pain going home from bars stinking of smoke.

BUT;

I try to refrain from becoming one of those hollier than thou ex-smokers and remember when I smoked like a train around others. I can also remember how I detested the smoking bans in the UK and Ireland. How I dreaded flying, even short hops to Spain, without a cigarette. I'm also old enough to remember smoking on planes!

Smoking is legal, the government has made a fortune from smokers paying ridicuous taxes and some peoplle are very addicted. Is it fair to allow tobacco advertising and allow smoking virtually everywere for decades until millions of people are addicted, then say you can't smoke here, there or anywhere else?

For some of you non-smokers that may not fully appreciate the addiction of cigarettes, consider giving up something you love for a year. Perhaps those few beers or glasses of wine everyday and I think alcohol is less addictive.

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05 December 2010:

Hello,

 

I haven't posted on here for a long time but I'm now living in Zaragoza, Spain.

I was wondering when the sales start, Decathlon in particular, is it after Xmas, the New Year or do they wait until after the 3 Kings?

 

Stephen

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