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Look at the Greece. there's smoking ban, but i have seen ash trays in MC Donalds. In smaller airports than athens the same thing, especially when the tourist season is over.

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P.S. I have even been smoking bars in CA, US (pionieers in it) in the smaller wild west towns some 3 years ago..
The staff usually replied - we are against this policy and we don,t care.

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I was in Kaprun a month ago and people were puffing away in the bars. However, in the Alpincentre there were no smoking areas in the restaurant area and nobody smoked in the hotel restaurant either.

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Haha my sincere apologies Samerberg Sue

I was in Mayrhofen for the 2009 New year and whilst I was there (or around that time) there was some form of legislation change regarding smoking in public spaces.

And although there was an increase in "Rauchen verboten" signs it did seem to have little impact on the amount of smokers in bars.

I can't stand the smell of stale tobacco laced into your clothes the following morning!!! Evil or Very Mad

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Hmm no Austrian hols for me then...... Doubtless that will be the deciding factor - that they won't get my custom without a smoking ban !!!! Laughing

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In Schladming more and more cafes and mountain huts are increasing the no smoking areas. It does seem no smoking is happening slowly, though the bars still are smoky and smelly.

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Fly out to Austria Tue and forgot how the Austrians dont go along with there governments smoking ban. I shall now be extremely disappointed if I dont get to have a beer and smoke, at the same time inside a pub! Will let you all know.

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jennycook, did you not ski, or indeed to to any pubs or restaurants in the UK, before the smoking ban came in?

waynos, was in Schladming before Xmas and there was a, erm, healthy amount of smoking going on, both on and off the mountain.

Was in Vienna for four days in December, the hotel was no smoking in public areas and there was lots of cafes/bars that were non smoking.

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Dr John, there's nowt like the fanaticism of the converted! Laughing

As an ex-smoker (albeit over 30 years clean) I used to turn up my nose to huts, bars and restaurants in France, Germany, Austria, Spain, etc., with the best of them. It actually kept me outdoors skiing more which was a distinct advantage in all of the countries come lunchtime when I often had the pistes to myself. I can also remember refusing to go into the bar at Gloucester Ski Centre after work because it was too smoky! rolling eyes

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It's funny how I was less offended with smoking before the ban. I just accepted that if I ever went to a pub I would come back smelling awful and needing an immediate bath. It's so much nicer now and I find I'm far less tolerant of it. I now avoid pubs where people stand in the doorway to smoke, I don't want to walk through their smelly haze. I guess it might restrict where I go in Austria but so be it. Hopefully they will eventually get the message and put all these smelly people in a separate hut somewhere. Very Happy

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Indeed i did Dr John, .... no going back for me ...... i literally would not go to somewhere with no smoking ban now i have a choice.... It's an emotive subject and I'm not saying what anyone else should do ....

Guys... there is no 'smoking-ban' in Austria as Samerberg Sue, stated earlier... there are smoking restrictions for certain sized bars/restaurants.

More and more places that do not need to offer a non-smoking area are now offering smoker-free areas. Dr John believe us... it is getting much better than previous years!

jennycook,

You know it makes sense.

I can see where jennycook's coming from. We were in Austria in November and - because we are now so used to smoke-free environments - it was a shock to the system to encounter a smokey apres ski bar.

Similarly, the first time we entered a smoke-free pub (which was in Scotland, which I seem to recall banned smoking before England) was a shock - but in a good way.

Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:

Richiavo - well that's not exactly true. The last part of the UK to introduce a smoking ban was in July 2007, 2 and a half years ago. In some parts, it's coming up to 4 years.

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We walked out of quite a few mountain huts last week in the Ski Amade region because of the stink when we entered. If France and Italy can introduce (and enforce) a ban, why can't Austria?

(I have heard it rumoured that it is because there is still a state monopoly on the sale of cigarettes, and the Austrian government make so much money out of it that they are reluctant to introduce a wider ban because of the impact that would have on their income.)

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flangesax, don't apologise on my behalf, I'm a smoker and found it liberating, not to say nostalgic, to sit at a bar and smoke. I don't mind either way, quite happy nipping out once an hour for a gasper, just made a nice change not to have to.

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Pete_On_The_Snow, We were first to do it....if they could do here theres no reason why it can't be blanketly enforced everywhere else.

RobW, Our Govt make millions on duty on tobacco over here, the ban didn't make a jot of difference to that....smokers will continue to smoke, just outside the boozer/eaterie/workplace

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dazman, The story was that it isn't just the duty the Austrian government gets, but a big proportion of the profits too!

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I've just come in from a day in the Ski Welt area and was surprised to find that many of the bars I would normally expect to be smoke-filled, were actually smoke free. At lunchtime for instance the only seating we could find was in the Smoker's room in the Brandstadl Restaurant. Firstly, nobody was smoking in there and secondly it was the small room reserved for NON-smokers last year! Shocked

Later on the only smokers we saw were some of the younger ski instructors at their reserved table - and they looked sheepish about it to be honest.

Later on we were in the Aualm and the Tanzboden Alm, both strongholds for die-hard smokers in previous seasons - all smoke free. Tanzboden has installed wall heaters outside above the smokers tables and the Aualm just had ashtrays (big ones) scattered around the terrace. It seems to me that the Austrian system is working, steadily but surely but without making smokers pariahs. They seem to have adopted a more adult attitude, and as more and more clients come from countries where smoking inside public places is not accepted, then they are pragmatic about it.

Fine by me - live and let live rather than enforcement by decree! Laughing

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Back from Schladming and there is less smoke in the bars and hotels, some completely free of it. It's not being strictly enforced anywhere though. Still people having the odd crafty smoke and ash trays everywhere. Seems that the bigger the establishment the more chance there is of it being smoke free with a separate smoking area.

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Just returned from a week in Soll (Austria) smelling like the inside of an ashtray!! There is no ban in any of the hotels and bars, majority of bar staff smoke whilst working. My friends who have been to Austria before say it is not as bad as it was , so there has been a slight improvement probably because the vast majority are non smokers from the UK. However it took the edge off our holiday, so much so that we will not return until there has been a total ban.

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