MADRID, April 8 (Reuters) – Barcelona beachgoers will not must cope with cigarette butts or passive smoke beginning in July when Spain’s second largest metropolis will ban smoking on all its seashores, town corridor stated on Friday.
The choice comes after a pilot mission las yr noticed smoking banned on 4 of town’s 10 native seashores.
“Seashores with no smoking allowed will supply more healthy communal residing areas, with much less waste and can respect the defence of surroundings,” the assertion stated.
A number of Spanish areas imposed bans in 2020 to clamp down on the unfold of COVID-19, whereas others just like the Balearic Islands, together with Mallorca, had already adopted the measure earlier than the pandemic for environmental causes.
The Canary Islands, Andalusia, Galicia and Valencia have adopted go well with with partial or complete bans of smoking on their seashores.
Reporting by Christina Thykjaer; Modifying by Nathan Allen and Raissa Kasolowsky
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