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The Barcelona City Council has announced this Friday that from July it will ban smoking on all its beaches following the results of the pilot test it promoted in 2021, for which it will promote an information campaign that will start this month and until June in the five kilometers of the Barcelona coastline.
As reported by the Councilor for Climate Emergency and Ecological Transition, Eloi Badia, on the beaches where the measure was carried out "there was a very low presence of cigarettes" and this measure, in addition to seeking a
healthier environment and protect passive smokers
, seeks
to avoid generating waste
, since cigarette butts are an environmental problem as they take ten years to disappear.
This measure has to be approved in the plenary session of the town hall, but Badia has advanced that in June they will have "majorities to approve the ban on smoking on all beaches."
Along these lines, the Councilor for Health, Aging and Care, Gemma Tarafa, explained that a study that took place in Spain in 2019 revealed that
135,000 children suffered the consequences as passive smokers
and that 3,000 young people under the age of 19 were hospitalized for tobacco fault.
Tarafa has also pointed out that the score on the satisfaction of the residents of smoke-free beaches has been 8 out of 10.
"In
Spain, work is being done to approve regulations
, within the framework of the tobacco law, which will be finished by mid-2023 and which will prohibit smoking in many open spaces, including beaches," concluded the councilor, with what Barcelona seeks to anticipate.
2022 will therefore be the
first smoke-free summer on Barcelona's beaches
and will thus culminate the pilot test that was carried out a year ago on four of the city's ten beaches, for purposes that are not only healthy but also environmental.
According to the municipal calendar, the average bathing season runs from April 9 to 18, every weekend in April and May, and from September 12 to 25.
The high season will start on May 28 and end on September 11.
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