I understand the frustration of a non smoker in Greece, but I couldn't disagree more.
Some European Union asshole thought they could tell the Greek people what they can and can't do. The Greek people told that asshole to shove it up their ass. Personally, I think the smoking situation in Greece is a great example of people expressing their right to freedom.
If a business who follows the law and doesn't allow smoking can't attract customers, then I think that is the free market at work.
Smoking is bad and unhealthy, but adults should be allowed to make any decision they like, and business owners should be allowed to decide what those adults can and can't smoke inside their premises.
I don't drink, I don't like it, but when I go out and see people drinking and acting like drunk idiots I don't complain. I also wouldn't want the government to make drinking in private business illegal. If it was a big issue for me I just wouldn't go to places where people drink.
Ofcourse I am a smoker and you are non smoker so we are obviously going to disagree (:
hahaha the only reason Greeks in Greece don't follow the law is because nobody applies the law so they have no consequences, it's not like they are expressing their right to freedom :P the same ones when they visit another country they blindfolded follow the laws because they are afraid of the consequences. I have seen it a couple of times in my travels. the best one was in a ''third world country'' Bratislava where a friend of mine took a cigarette out saying ''fuck them''
A minute later a policeman came out of nowhere showing him a small sign in a back of a wall and told him either you pay the find of 20-50 euros something like that or you gonna gonna be held in the police station for a day :P
The ''fuck them'' directly became ok here the 20-50 bucks :P
If we can't apply the law i am not saying to prohibit smoking entirely but some easy measures like in a big club or cafeteria to have a separate space for smokers and not smokers or now during summer to say go outside and smoke i think it would be a great start.
Hahaha the part 2 i am gonna make today will be quite sarcastic :P so i hope you have no hardfeelings :P either way you have a great sense of humor. Now that i think of it you gave me an idea to make a sarcastic one by the smokers side :P