MALLORCA TODAY - Smoking ban protest in Madrid

While Mallorca's bar and restaurant owners plan actions they will take on 7 March, their counterparts on the mainland have already staged the first of their own protests - outside the interior ministry building in Madrid. Some 1500 protesters gathered yesterday to demonstrate against the introduction of the smoking ban which is said to have led to around a 20% fall in sales in bars and nightclubs and a 14% decline in restaurant income.