Those who smoke a cigarette exhale harder. So it pushes more aerosols into the air than someone normally breathing, and on top of that it continues to throw them away. The risk of the coronavirus spreading is therefore significantly higher for smokers than for non-smokers.
Something like this was argued in some Spanish local councils near the coast to justify a smoking ban on the respective beaches. These regulations certainly belong to the rather curious, if not to say actionist, protective measures to contain the pandemic.
But anyone who believes that these ineffective bans issued in summer can now be collected from the councils quietly and with as little loss of face as possible in winter, when hardly anyone is lying on the beach anyway, is mistaken. Rather, municipalities can now refer to a national law that allows them not only to ban smoking on the beaches, but also to punish any violation with a fine of up to 2000 euros.
And what about the smell of rancid frying fat and cheap suntan lotion?
However, there is no longer any talk of Corona. However, neither from lung cancer from passive smoking. Not even the contribution of cigarette smoke to general air pollution – although in this field more urgent action would have to be taken against meat grilled into briquettes, rancid deep-frying fat from the beach kiosk, the brackish water from the neighboring harbor basin and the perfume additives of cheap suntan lotion.
No, according to the reasoning, it’s about the rubbish from the many smoked butts. To the pollutants that are contained in it and get into the water to all the fertilizers and untreated sewage. The matter received international attention, especially from the English media, and the particularly truth-loving among them have found a completely different reason: Above all, and first of all, it is about keeping the English away from the Spanish beaches. One hundred English people have just been refused entry to Tyrol to ski just because they were not adequately vaccinated or tested. Now they should also be prevented from smoking in the fresh air while sunbathing. Once again, you will see confirmation that you have left the EU. Especially since things are going so well at home.