Open rebellion against Spain’s new smoking laws continued to manifest itself onWednesday, as the owners of a bar in Castellón, in Valencia province, hung a sign on their door welcoming smokers and warning non-smokers to “enter at their own risk.” The rejection of the tougher regulations, which ban smoking in all public places, came a day after a bar owner in Montehermoso, Cáceres, needed 18 stitches in his forehead after sustaining an injury during a brawl between two customers, one of whom had asked the other to extinguish his cigarette.
According to the bar owner in Castellón, Fernando Tejedor, they have no choice but to flaunt the rules. “Takings fell between 75 and 80 percent [when the law came in],” he said Wednesday, while “electricity and all the other bills are still the same.”
