Some Brussels cafes still defying ban on smoking indoors

Fourteen years after a ban on indoor smoking in bars and restaurants, almost one in 10 Brussels establishments still allows it, according to an investigation by Dutch-language media outlet Bruzz.Belgium’s new federal government intends to expand the smoking ban to apply to outdoor terraces as well, but the indoor smoking ban is already not wholly enforced in the capital.Journalists visited a number of bars and restaurants across Brussels for the investigation, but because they did not reveal themselves as reporters - in order to get more honest answers about compliance with smoking legislation - Bruzz declined to identify any of the establis…