Not only decarbonisation, the electrification of the road system, gender equality and so on already make Sweden a country at the forefront of social achievements. Stockholm, although temporarily without a government (the one made up of socialists and greens has resigned and if we went back to the polls now there would also be the danger of a rise of the sovereigns), goes further: in 2025, a date that for some countries including Sweden and some cities (including Rome) is synonymous with goodbye to diesel, it wants to give life to the first "smoke-free" society, with zero smoke. In the sense that cigarettes will be completely banned, not only in public places, but also outside restaurants, hotels or public or private offices, and from each of their entrances the ashtrays currently placed for the few who do not give up the habit of smoking will disappear.
Stockholm had introduced a ban on smoking in clubs and on all public transport since 2005, the same year as Italy. Smoking is currently only permitted in isolated rooms or cabins, in airports or offices, and civil servants, if they are smokers, have long been required to formally undertake not to disturb non-smoking colleagues in any way and never to jeopardize their Health. The result within 7 years shouldn't be too difficult to achieve, given that already today the declared habitual smokers, in the leading country of the Great North, they are just 11 percent of the population, and casual smokers another 10 percent. It is not yet clear what will happen to the few very small isolated and ventilated cabins present in the huge Arlanda airport, the largest of the three in the capital. But in the meantime it is certain that, despite the political uncertainty, the law will pass and put Sweden at the forefront of the fight against smoking.
Italy too has done a lot in the last twenty years: our country has been the third in Europe to ban smoking in restaurants, after Ireland (1988) and Finland (1995). The most tolerant laws are instead the Greek ones, where bars classified as "entertainment centers" (discos, nightclubs) are exempt from the smoking ban on condition that they have a floor area of over 300 square meters. A special case is Switzerland: in this case smoking bans are widespread in various cities starting with the main ones such as Zurich, but only from June 2019 will the SBB, the Swiss railways, introduce the ban on smoking inside their stations. For now, Bern excludes the possibility of establishing a general ban: the motivation is that of not wanting to "offend the population".
