 Poster: A snowHead
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Just wanted to let you all know that andorra from the 1st jan will be no smoking in the bars and restaurants!
I read a lot that people struggle with the smoke, but from this next year there will be no more!!!! spread the word x
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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It's a step in the right direction. At times it was genuinely unbearable on our visit, and I was a smoker at the time  Hopefully the cheap food and drink will continue, and they don't go too nuts with the taxes on booze.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I suspect many more people will now go to Andorra now that you can go out at night without having to endure cigarette smoke.
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Does that leave Austria as the skiing smokers choice now?
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Probably. We've spoken to Gasthof owners who find the fact embarassing - and that was before the Andorra situation.
Much as Mrs MA and I love Austria, it's a shock to the system to have to endure smoke in bars and restaurants - especially when the smoker on the next table keeps their fag at arms length and as far as possible from their own party - but almost on our table instead..... 
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mountainaddict, Perhaps you should have to find a seat in the non-smoking section! How long ago did you last visit?
There has been a law in Austria for some years now stipulating that any establishment with more than 80 sq.m area has to provide separate areas for smokers and non-smokers. To begin with these were often small dark corners beyond the smoking masses for the non-smokers. As time has gone by the owners have recognised that the vast majority of their tourist guests prefer non-smoking, the big breakthrough coming when the Germans introduced a non-smoking rule for restaurants and bars. In many mountain restaurants the whole inside areas are non-smoking and more and more hotels are also entirely non-smoking.
The difference is that the Austrians have introduced this system without the need for draconian legislation, based on the principle of live and let live. Anyone whose smoke is annoying me is politely but simply told of the problem. I have not yet had any other response than effusive apologies and extinguished offending cigarette. Those who know also know that I am very intolerant of any tobacco abuse in my vicinity! If I feel that a hut or restaurant is too smokey, I do what everyone else with common sense does, I take my custom elsewhere, no shortage of huts/restaurants to choose from? 
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Does that leave Austria as the skiing smokers choice now?
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Bulgaria?
My recent experiences of Austria were more along the lines of 90% smoke free, with many smokers voluntarily going outside anyway. Even in the snow. Probably because they're so used to it elsewhere and back home, and/or that's where the bar/restaurant had put the smoking area.
Seen 1-2 places in Germany with indoor segregated area, but (at least here in Hessen) afaict they have to be fully separate partition with positive air pressure ventilation in the non-smoking part.
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