Hoteliers stand up against the plan to prohibit smoking on terraces: "If they have to get up to smoke... Some would leave without paying".
"A problem is being generated where there was none... Altering a coexistence that is now perfect, putting the focus on a space, outdoors, where if a client... complains about the smoke, he retires so as not to disturb," says Hostelería Madrid president José Antonio Aparicio. The Madrid Health Department has dubbed the proposal "a ceremony of confusion"