Petition calls for smoking ban on all Spanish beaches
by Ashifa Kassam in Madrid from Environment | The Guardian on (#5J5S0)
More than 283,000 back call to rid Spain's coastline of smoke and discarded cigarette butts
A petition signed by more than 283,000 people calling on Spain to ban smoking at all its beaches has been delivered to the country's environment minister.
For more than two years the organisation No Fumadores (No Smokers) has been gathering signatures aimed at transforming Spain's 3,084 miles (4,964km) of coastline into areas free of cigarette smoke and discarded cigarette butts.
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