The new anti -tabaco law prepared by the Ministry of Health will expand the smoke -free spaces to terraces, marques, vehicles for labor use, university campuses, patios of institutes, sports facilities, pools for collective use and exterior leisure areas (such as can be outdoors in the outdoor). This includes both conventional tobacco, as a heating or vapers In public spaces, as reported on Thursday the Ministry of Health after statements of the minister advanced to the SER chain. In a note sent to the media, Garcia recalled that the spaces in which health intends of tobacco. ”The Ministry highlights the need to guarantee safe and healthy environments for the entire population, especially for vulnerable groups such as minors and pregnant people. “This measure responds to a health equity approach, recognizing that every person has the right not to be exposed to smoke involuntarily,” justifies health. The department already has the text of the draft ready. Now it has to be approved by the Council of Ministers for later parliamentary process. In Congress requires the agreement with the other forces for the final approval, so the restrictions that healing may implement many changes in the final law. Garcia has not put dates for these milestones. “We hope that the draft of the law can see the light soon and be a reality as soon as possible. Each space won to the smoke of tobacco is a space won to health and life,” said the minister in statements sent to the media to the media in an interview with the country this week, Garcia bet on a measure as ambitious as possible so that “Spain will be at the forefront in the policies against tobacco.” He also referred to the complicated parliamentary procedure that the law has ahead: “I hope we do not give up before the lobbys that are exerting an important pressure as they have always done. And the tobacco lobby is doing their job. But ours is to defend the health of the population, of the citizenship.” This measure emanates from a plan against tobacco that was approved in the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System by all autonomous communities. It did not specify where smoking would be prohibited, but it did explain the aspiration to expand the smoke -free spaces. Of that strategy, other initiatives have also come out, such as a royal decree to regulate the new devices for smoking, nicotine bags or the future imposition of generic packaging for cigarettes and liar tobacco. Among other things, it prohibits the flavorings in vapers, to try to prevent young people from starting this habit, a measure that was challenged by the National Commission of Markets and Competition and is now in period of allegations in the European Union. (Tagstotranslate) Society
