• Humanius@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    New regulations from 2026 – smoking will only be permitted in designated smoking areas.

    Frankly that seems to me like a pretty reasonable regulation. It’s not nearly as extreme as the post’s title would suggest.

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      3 days ago

      Yes. I think that is well done by Baden-Württemberg “Following an amendment to the Smoke-Free Environment Law in Baden-Württemberg”. Completely reasonable for everyone. That this even needs a regulation.

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        2 days ago

        The reason why I remark on it being reasonable, is because over here in the Netherlands we have been seeing increasingly more places that just outright ban smoking on the entire premises. They specifically choose not to have designated smoking spaces.

        In practice this does not work at all, because smoking is an addiction and you can’t expect smokers not to smoke for hours upon end. So in practice they smoke outside anyway, and you are worse off than you would have been in a situation with designated smoking spots.