More than 200 people called the hot line for the Smoking Ban in its first 24 hours of its operation, the Health Ministry said in a statement.
According to the collected data, of 235 phone calls in total to <1142>, 58 were denouncements for smokers and facilities violating the Law.
In 22 calls people asked for tips to stop smoking, while 68 calls were requesting more detailed information about the smoking ban.
58 calls did not concluded, 14 callers hanged the phone before speaking with a representative and 17 calls focused on a smoking irrelevant issue.
Controllers targeted ten cafeterias, restaurants and bars in a suburb of South Athens on Wednesday night. They imposed fines to 3 smokers and the facilities allowing them to violate the Law.
Meanwhile, Greeks lash out at social media that the private telephone company receiving the calls was chosen without previous public procurement.
And that the calls are charged, around 20 cents.
PS smokers hope that the cost of the phone call will make snitcher think twice before denounce a smoker. OK. Just kidding…
I’m interested in how the law defines an ‘enclosed’ space. Is it sufficient to open all doors and windows, for example, or partly open the roof, as I saw today in a beachside bar here, for it not to be considered ‘enclosed’? I suspect that unless it’s clear what an enclosed space actually is there will be all sorts of devious schemes employed to get around this law.
it is rather clear, so clear that the space has to be open on 3 sides + no roof or awnings.