Hotels, restaurants, cafés and discotheques should be completely smoke-free. The sooner, the better! A café is a public place, which in our culture is an important part of social life, belonging to everybody and not just to a minority of smokers. Since there is no smoking ban today, staff, visitors and public are obliged to choose either to stay away or to breathe in the toxic smoke. The absence of a smoking ban in cafés perniciously makes many young people addicted to smoking. In thirteen European countries 200 millions of Europeans are already enjoying non-smoking hotels, cafés and restaurants. The population is delighted about it, the legislation is being observed and the quality of the air is improving.
I am in favour of an immediate introduction of a total ban on smoking in the Belgian hotels, cafés and restaurants!
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