Spain holidays: A smoking ban has put put forward in a bid to cut down on cigarette butt litter (Image: Getty Images)
Spain holidays could see smoking vanishing from beaches on Majorca and Ibiza as authorities propose a new scheme. A smoking ban has been put forward in a bid to cut down on the high volume of cigarette butts present on the sand and sea and to help the environment. Holidaymakers often leave their butts littering the beach and they wash out to sea where they harm wildlife. Balearic Government health officials also believe the beaches would benefit from being smoke-free zones.
Spain holidays: Majorca and Ibiza beaches set to issue smoking ban
However, the smoking ban would not be enforced but would, instead, be voluntary.
Police will patrol the beaches but sun-worshippers will not be made to stop smoking and they won’t be punished.
Environmental health chiefs hope holidaymakers on Ibiza and Majorca will ”delve into their own consciences" and support what local councils are trying to do.
There is only one beach in the Balearics where smoking is currently prohibited - Santa Eulària on the east coast of Ibiza where the order came into force in 2016.
However, on the mainland, Galicia and Murcia have a no smoking rule in tourist zones.
"What is involved is to gradually get people to empower themselves and make others respect spaces without tobacco,” General director of public health for the Balearic Government, Maria Ramos said.
Spain holidays: Government health officials believe the beaches would
