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Smoking
In terms of smoking, it is safest, as with bars, to assume that everywhere you will visit in Sarajevo is a smoking zone, be it bars, restaurants, cafes, clubs or hotels, except where very strictly classified otherwise. This reviewer, for instance, once watched all three female staff at a health-club smoke while on-duty. A very high percentage of Bosnians smoke, both men and women, and a great deal of teenagers too. Despite vague and inaudible efforts to adhere to forthcoming EU policy once Bosnia eventually joins the Union, the idea of not being able to smoke anywhere in Bosnia would, rather nicely, be considered sacrilegious by much of its population. It is perfectly common to see people smoking in restaurants while others are eating at the same table, many people smoke half-way through a course, and the whole country is delightfully free of the smoking regulations so common in much of the rest of Europe and North America.
Tourists, back-packers, visitors and business travellers should be aware that this is a full-on smoking country, and that any complaints by outsiders about cigarette smoke and the perils thereof will be met with total derision and scornful laughter by both Bosnians and foreigners who live there.
Tourists, back-packers, visitors and business travellers should be aware that this is a full-on smoking country, and that any complaints by outsiders about cigarette smoke and the perils thereof will be met with total derision and scornful laughter by both Bosnians and foreigners who live there.