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On Tuesday 25, at 10 pm and held another meeting with neighborhood associations and the Ministry of Health to treat smoking ban

The Security council and Circulation, Nuria Fuentes, Councilman and Environment and Urban Quality, Adela Martinez-Cacho, met this morning, as proposed by Mayor Miguel Angel House, with representatives of Hostemur to treat the possible impact that the smoking ban may have on living as smokers are forced to go outside to smoke on the street and causing trouble in the rest of the neighbors.

So Hostemur City and have begun to outline a campaign to educate smokers to respect the rest of the neighbors with signs to be placed on the doors of hotel establishments.

This campaign will be determined in agreement at a meeting next Tuesday will be maintained at 10 am in Conference Room A of the annex building, which will join neighborhood associations and representatives of the Ministry of Health.

Similarly, the Environment Councillor pointed out that "the ordinance was brought forward to this Act and in March 2010 joined the watchmen and street furniture on the terraces of the bars. The interest of the City is that, wherever possible, offer an alternative to implement a suitable in public. Thus, each case study each of the institutions, studying in detail each bar, its location and features, reviewing applications have been rejected and trying to find solutions in each them "

Councilwoman Nuria Fuentes explained that "since local police work in two ways. First make known how to deal with these situations and then try to reconcile leisure and entertainment with the rest of the neighbors."

The mayor added that "we do not parallel bars and bottles at the bar and that these establishments comply with the law. We will work on a protocol to establish the modus operandi of the local police and bar owners, and know how act in these situations. "

Furthermore, she added that in these first days of life "Local police have received 17 calls, of which 80% are owners or waiters worried because there were people smoking in their establishment because to them it is a penalty you € 600, and even closure of the premises, while the smoker is 30 euros, thus making the owners and waiters directly responsible for the implementation of the law "

Fuentes explained that "the City Council appreciate the willingness of Hostemur here since the passage of the law to its implementation there has been little time to develop an information campaign or allowed to adapt to a law that does not create conflicts and problems"

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia