European Union officials may suggest an absolute smoking prohibition in public places for all 27 member states.
Bloomberg news reported that in a policy paper issued on Tuesday, EU regulators said that they favor a prohibition that does not include any exemptions for establishments, like bars serving food.
Nevertheless, the Union is delaying launching legislation to guarantee a smoke-free environment across the whole bloc due to the fact that "the desirable level of EU involvement in promoting smoke-free legislation is an open question."
Up to the present, thirteen EU nations have outlined rules to limit smoking in public. Nonetheless, smoking bans have met strong opposition in some countries, such as Germany, which is Europe’s biggest tobacco market, Bloomberg announced.
According to the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, every year in the European Union, second-hand smoke is in charge of the deaths of 79 000 adult citizens.
