Cabinet backs smoking ban in bars

Smoking is to be partially banned in Dutch cafés, bars, restaurants and discotheques from July next year, the cabinet agreed on Friday. Smoking will still be permitted in separate, closed-off rooms without waitress service, health minister Ab Klink said after Friday’s cabinet meeting.


The hospitality industry had called for a phased ban, which had been agreed with the previous government. It said the current government was untrustworthy for going back on old agreements.
In so-called coffee shops where people can buy small quantities of cannabis, smoking will be banned in the area where soft drugs are sold.

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