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I am investigating Greece as a possible tourist destination and spoke to a friend who has recently (Summer 2024) been there. She said that, in the next room to hers, people smoked on their balcony. Is this legally allowed in Greece? Can I demand forbidding smoking on a balcony if I am in a hotel in Greece, and will I have a high chance of success if I do?

More broadly, is there a Mediterranean country with a good access to the seaside where smoking is definitely forbidden and where I don't need to bother with reporting it at all?

Edited: I re-read the last question and it is a bit broad. What I meant to find was a Mediterranean country where smoking is forbidden inside hotels in general, excluding special places that are easy to avoid. Obviously, it cannot be forbidden countrywide.

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I don't think your approach is necessarily the most constructive or would be considered reasonable in any European country but the document found by WeatherVane contains some data on self-reported smoking exposure that could be interesting for your purpose.

Among Mediterranean countries, Italy has the lowest exposures in bars (11%) and restaurants (7%), followed by Spain, Malta and then Cyprus. Greece is much much worse with over 70% exposure in both bars and restaurants during the last 6 months, which is consistent with your anecdote. Assuming this is broadly correlated with smoking prevalence and attitudes towards smoking and with the caveat that the data is over 10 years old, Italy would therefore seem like a good choice (and indeed I don't recall much smoking there but I am not overly sensitive to it).

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Ask your hotel before booking, they may have a wing of the hotel which is non-smoking

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