The problem of smoking in indoor areas and in crowded places is the question that is still highly debatable. There are carried a numerous meetings concerning this burning theme all over the world. The governances of most states are concerned with this issue and tend to take right decisions.

Finally, after long-term discussions, Swiss Parliament enacted compromise canon to forbid smoking in most indoor venues this week. This bill will disallow smoking in such public areas as schools, hospitals, shopping malls and cinemas, but politicians haven’t inserted in this list restaurant less than 80 square metres. Institutions that are well ventilated and clearly marked will remain open for tobacco devotees.

However, this enactment didn’t impress the representatives of anti-smoking campaigns.
Thereat the Swiss Lung League on Friday has spoken out the following: “Our League is out of conceit with federal politicians, who, by this new unreasonable legislation, practically did nothing in order to protect non-smokers from the dangers of harmful smoke”.

Corinne Zosso, who is managing director of this organization, declared that governmental officials failed to provide coherent and effective protection against passive smoking at the national level. “Woefully they do not give serious weight to smoking challenge. We cannot partially fight this evil,” added she.

Toni Bortoluzzi, member of the right-wing Swiss People's Party, claimed that his Party had voted in favor of this law to preclude exact social regulation. Still, they are making time over issues of state interference on personal freedom and the pressure that this ban would have on business.

Another organization, which is of the same point of view as Swiss People’s Party, is the Association representing Switzerland's hospitality industry, Gastrosuisse. “We are worried of our hospitality industry. The majority of tourists coming to Switzerland are smokers. We should realize this fact. Introducing any prohibitions, in fact, we pose risk to our economy”, stressed the agent of this association.

Most politicians from the left-of-centre Social Democratic Party and the Greens argued against the bill, making reference on the fact that it didn’t render sufficient support to smokers.

In Zurich and Basel City smoking was allowed in specially designated rooms. Cantons such as Fribourg, Valais and Vaud will deal too in case voters there will approve it. The exact smoking prohibitions were recently instituted in Geneva. The first similar interdiction was set in Italian-speaking canton Ticino.

According to newly-fledged ban, one-third of seats in a venue must be reserved for non-smokers in the northern canton of Schaffhausen.  In Graubünden, Solothurn and Uri cantons authorities are studying instituting separate smoking rooms.

Famous anti-smoking activist of the Lung League, Corinne Zosso, in the end stated that diluted federal law builds up distortion and bureaucracy that will bring to various problems in its implementation.