Health authorities are forcing some people to choose between cancer and their livelihood. Barcelona's authorities are hypocritical and lie, the law is not accepted. They know that to allow smokers in less than 100 sq meters bars, etc has resulted in dangerous "ghettos" where workers - often self-employed owners- are subjected to proved unhealthy conditions. The current law allows children to be brought into such places and smokers gather, as everyone would expect, in the only places where they can smoke. Whether there is a case of interested mafia in bars and restaurants or sheer stupidity on Health Authorities that can and should change that, the outcome is disastrous.
It has been explained that many "small" bars tried to ban smoking at first, to find that their customers run away to competitors massively. They could not sustain the position.