Smoking ban in Spain

THE tapas bar — the noisy and bustling Spanish success story that combined delicious morsels with good wine and, often, an ever-present cigarette — is now smoke-free.

So are restaurants, discos, casinos, airports and even some outdoor spaces.

Spain introduced an anti-smoking law yesterday that is likely to turn the EU’s fourth largest tobacco producer from a cigarette-friendly land into one of Europe’s most stringently smokeless.