If you are a smoker forget about Spain and its bars, you are not allowed anymore to smoke in any premises whatsoever. Only terraces and open spaces can be used for smoking, unless they're too close a health centre or a school.
The controversy in a country like Spain was to be expected, the Ley Anti-Tabaco, is changing enormously our perception and culture, at least for a while. Smokers, the vast majority of bar's clients, are no longer going to the same old places or they go less. Many go to bars only if it's completely neccessary, like a pay-per-view Real Madrid match, and have let the bars down.
Some bar owners are reluctant to apply the new law, as well as many clients. We've had several issues about it. The most known of them is the case in Guadalmina, just five minute drive from our school, whose owner declared war to the Government about the law. He had to ban smoking from his restaurant at the end because of threaten to close the business.
No matter if you smoke or not, now the bars are smoke free and the streets are full of clouds!
The typical vocabulary associated to smoking is as follows:
Lighter - Mechero
Cigarette - Cigarro o cigarrillo
Ashtray - Cenicero
Do not smoke - Prohibido fumar
In the street - En la calle :)
And I guess the typical way to get to know someone you fancy in a night club, ¿fumas? ¿Quieres fuego? (Do you smoke?; need you fire?) are lost forever.
Welcome the health.
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