Julian H. Stacey
Tobacco Smoke Allergic

America

Britain

• Some pubs are aware of the market for non smokers. I was told in Feb 2006 that Summer 2007 a law will take effect banning smoking in public places (for that purpose, { prisons, day care centres, [hospitals ?] are excluded, but pubs & restaurants are included in the ban.

Germany

• The Munich Oktoberfest has stinking smokers in every one of its 12 big beer tents. Again for 2006 NIM are trying to get one tent to be clean air.

  Bundesarbeitsgericht, 9 AZR 84/97

  Arbeitnehmer haben dann Anspruch auf einen tabak-rauchfreien Arbeitsplatz, wenn das im Einzelfall aus gesundheitlichen Grunden geboten und dem Arbeitgeber zumutbar ist

  Which to me reads like tortology & pretty much useless for enforcement against an unwilling employer addicted to smoke ? But Germany is slowing cleaning up it's dirty act, in some offices.

Ireland (South, Eire)

• many report the new law is working well, even in the pubs.

Italy

• The non smoking managers of Hotel DaTino, Malcesine, Lago Di Garda told us the new law requires restaurants & bars to have seperate rooms if smoking is to be permitted, but some small places tend to ignore the law. DaTino itself is swamped, (as is North Garda generally) by Germans, which is a bad thing, as many more Germans than Brits or Italians smoke, so the terrace at breakfast is polluted. Inside is smoke free, but why should poisonous smokers deny non poisoners the excellent view outside ?!

Norway

Sweden