Will Switzerland follow Spain? Maybe, if you raise your voice!

, 2010), Switzerland splits the workforceinto two categories: one is fully protected from passiveexposure to tobacco smoke while the other is still forcedto passively smoke at work. Fortunately the latter has be-come a minority due to general trends in the society [1]and the law prohibiting smoking at, most, work places. Theminority are those working in restaurants smaller than 80square meters, where employers can still choose to permitsmoking.When Spain adopted its law in December 2005, it suc-cessfully banned tobacco advertisement and smoking fromworkplaces. However, fierce resistance from interestgroups and stakeholders resulted in exemptions for the re-creation sector (e.g., bars, cafes, restaurants, dancehalls,discos, casinos). Most importantly restaurants less than 100square meters were exempt from the protection of em-ployees, very similarly to Switzerland, and larger facilitiescould keep smoking rooms if ventilation was provided;again just the same as the Federal law of Switzerland andthe current rule in 18 of 26 Swiss counties [2]. Most Span-ish hospitality facilities were smaller than 100 m