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The regional government of Madrid last week approved legislation that modifies, within the region of Madrid, some of the restrictions included in the national anti-smoking law that took effect January 1.
In the region of Madrid smokers will be allowed to light up in workplace cafeterias that are larger than 100 square metres. Facilities where private or institution banquets or events (such as weddings) are held can choose whether or not to allow smoking. Smokers are free to puff away in all open-air zones, as long as they are not in school or healthcare facilities.
Central government officials were quick to speak out against the Madrid law, and threatened to take legal actions against it if it remains in its current form. The secretary general for Health, José Martínez Olmos, said the Madrid measure went "against the spirit" of the national anti-smoking law.
The president of the National Committee of Smoking Prevention, Rodrigo Córdoba, called Madrid's modifications to the law "absolutely illegal."
But the Madrid regional government's Health chief, Manuel Lamela, stated that the law is "neither unconstitutional nor illegal." The Madrid law says the regional government will help pay for quit-smoking treatments for smokers who wish to drop the habit, a measure that was controversially not included in the national anti-smoking law.

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