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Officer, someone is smoking! Mexico implements anti-smoking law  

"Officer! Officer! Someone is smoking on the table next to mine!" Starting Thursday, such messages started arriving on Mexico City's 066 emergency phone line, after a restrictive anti-smoking law entered into force.

The controversial legislation says that restaurants, bars, offices, hotels, universities and any other closed public spaces will have to be 100 percent smoke-free.

No separations between smokers and non-smokers will be allowed, and smoking will only be permitted in patios or open-air terraces, that is, in very few of the 35,000 such public establishments around the city.

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