Came back last Saturday. Did not find any restrictions in the bars we visited, Morgans, Zodiac, The Town, Valentines, Steptoes 1, Western and a few others. I had understood that children were not allowed in 'smoking bars' but this did not seem to be the case .In several of them children, some even in pushchairs were there. In the Zodiac a foul mouthed so called comedian even incorporated them into his act.
In the Hotel Levante Club, Ashtrays were in rooms and the Dickens Bar allowed smoking.
At Alicante airport on our return journey I had misread a post about a post about smoking being allowed at Gate 11. We walked as far as we could in the direction of the higher gate numbers (not sure about Gate Numbers) and found several people smoking. We had 4 hours to our flight and had a few cigs before an official ordered us to stub out.
We had the impression that is was because people were flicking ash and stubbing out cigarettes on the floor causing a problem for the cleaners (we had used a coffee cup with liquid as an ashtray) I think if people could be more respecful problems may not arise