Thursday, August 18, 2005
Forest fire alert; no smoking in the woods, please
In a move that earned a few disgruntled murmurs from the smokers out there and plaudits from the green faction, the Spanish government recently created one of the biggest no-smoking areas the world has seen when it rushed through emergency legislation to ban the habit in mountain greenery nationwide until November.
Although the situation has been handled with the utmost discretion in order to avoid causing unnecessary alarm, the authorities last week admitted that in Tenerife alone there have been 29 outbreaks of fire since the beginning of summer.
Forest fire alert; no smoking in the woods, please
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