Smoke Free Beach
Dedicated smoking areas
Have you been dreaming of a smoke-free beach for years? Here in Bibione your dream is a reality with the launch of Bibione Smoke Free Beach, a project created with the aim of improving your holiday experience.
With this step our city is moving towards an important direction: the one that leads towards sustainability, the only way to preserve the beauty of the destination and the characteristics for which it is loved and frequented.
This journey began back in 2011 with ‘Breathe the Sea’, when people began to truly believe in the vision of a beach where it was possible to sink their feet into a sand free of butts and where one could breathe clean air.
After eight years of experimentation, Bibione demonstrates, with Smoke Free, that it has taken seriously the challenge launched by Health 2020, the European policy for health and well-being that aims to prevent and reduce the severity of diseases.
In defining how the smoking ban is to be enforced, the project includes the setting up of equipped and delimited areas within which smoking is allowed.
Useful information:
- Smoking areas are marked by wooden structures to make them easily recognizable — there will be as many as 40 along the 9 km stretch of beach.
- The fine for not complying with the regulations is 50 euros.
- The new regulation does not apply to the use of electronic cigarettes, but smoking while standing in the water is considered non-compliant.
- Monitoring on the beach will not be intrusive, but staff will be ready to intervene if necessary.
- If any beachgoers decide to smoke despite the clear and widespread signage, they can be reported to lifeguards or the Municipal Police for violating the ban.
P.S. For those wishing to learn more, the smoking ban is regulated by the Ordinance regulating bathing activities No. 17 of 30/04/2019 in Article 4a4 of the Municipality of San Michele al Tagliamento.