Table 4 Independent surveys on population sentiment about secondhand smoke and its regulation showed a majority of Germans favoured smoke‐free policies in public and at the workplace.

Year	Survey institute	Contracting entity	Sample	Results (and source)
1993	Eurobarometer	EU Commission	12 800	78% favour smoking bans in public places, 19% against, 88% favour separate areas in workplace123 (cited in a PM Draft report, dated 1994108)
1993	Infratest	Tabak‐Info‐Verlagsgesellschaft	2020	46% non‐smokers, 19% smokers favour smoking bans in public places124 (25% non‐smokers say government should regulate smokers/non‐smokers relations, 75% say that modus vivendi should be found) (cited in a PM Draft report, dated 1994108)
1994	FORSA	TV channel RTL	501 persons	65% in favour of smoking bans in public places125 (40% of the smokers; 78% in former East Germany, 61% in former West Germany) (cited in a PM Draft report, dated 1994108)
1996	FORSA	Not established	Not established	69% pro smoke‐free workplaces (including 49% smokers) (cited after Süddeutsche Zeitung of 3 June 1996109)
1997	GfK Marktforschung GmbH	German Nonsmokers Initiative	2600 persons (aged 16–69)	68.1% are for a statutory non‐smoker protection (83.6% non‐smokers; 45.2% smokers)110