Visitors to Switzerland don’t have much to complain about, but smoking in public makes many of them see red. How concerned is the tourism industry, and will new “smoking zones” in train stations improve the situation? “I was just there and again couldn’t believe the cigarette smoke as soon as I got off the trains!” – Luigi “I couldn’t believe how much smoking was everywhere! It made everything just a little less beautiful.” – Lori These are two of the many, many responses we received after asking our readers recently what disappointed them the most when they visited Switzerland. “Above all else, what I don’t like is the smoking. I had heard that the Swiss were very healthy and yet a good proportion smoke and they do it all over the place. Including right outside buildings so you have to walk through a wall of smoke to get in and out. Awful.” – Susan In fact tobacco smoking in Switzerland is just below the global average, according to a WHO international comparison from ...
