Corona hammer: Spain is thinking of a public smoking ban – usually also possible in Germany?

It is important that we be disciplined. We cannot ignore that the virus is circulating among us. We must be very rigorous as long as we do not have a vaccine.

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Of the Minister therefore follows the advice of the “Commission for Public Health” of his own ministry and wants a conditional one across the country smoking ban push through. In an opinion from the beginning of July, the commission warns of the increased risk of infection. When exhaling the Smoke Many microdroplets could come from the lungs or the oral cavity with the Coronavirus* are released, “which are highly infectious”, as it says in the expert report: “Therefore, consumption in communal environments should be avoided.” That means: This could not only be done indoors, but also in the fresh air Smoke be banned promptly.

Coronavirus: smoking ban in Spain? According to experts, smoking is “highly infectious”

The governments in Galicia and the Canary Islands have already been with one in the last few weeks smoking ban rushed forward. The two tourist regions decided that Smoker are no longer allowed to take off their masks on streets and restaurant terraces. With the restriction that the minimum distance of two meters cannot be maintained. If this minimum distance is observed, smoking is allowed. This exception should also apply to the measure of the Minister of Health be valid.

Carlos Jiménez is considered a pioneer of the new No smoking in Spain. The President of the Spanish Society of Pulmonary and Thoracic Surgery explains in an interview with the Spiegel his intention: “If a Smoker exhaled, many more droplets are released into the environment than when a person exhales normally. And the Smoker don’t wear a mask. ”Unlike in Germany must be in Spain Mouth and nose protection can also be worn almost everywhere outside in public spaces.

Corona: Spain is serious and wants to ban smoking – also possible in Germany?

So far, researchers are of the opinion that the risk is much higher indoors than outdoors in the fresh air. There, the particles could evaporate more quickly. For this reason, SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach shows himself to the Spiegel cautious about: “So far there have been no studies showing a particular risk of infection Cigarettes underpin. ”The news magazine has that too Virologen Jonas Schmidt from the Bernhard Nocht Institute in Hamburg asked about this. When exhaling, “many droplets would be blown into the environment, which Virus can transfer. I don’t think the ban in Spain will be crucial to the spread of the Virus* contain. ”In Germany such a measure should therefore not be considered.