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Small children in the smoke: Edigheim restaurant closed due to noise!
Restaurant in Edigheim, Ludwigshafen, closed due to noise complaints and passive smoking. Police intervened after residents complained.
Small children in the smoke: Edigheim restaurant closed due to noise!
Early on Sunday morning, September 21, 2025, a restaurant in Edigheim was closed by the municipal enforcement service (KVD) after residents reported multiple noise complaints. The emergency services reached the location around 2 a.m. and discovered that loud music was blaring from the facility. There were also several children under the age of three in the premises who were exposed to the harmful cigarette smoke the Rhine Palatinate reported.
The KVD called on the 41-year-old operator of the restaurant to end the event immediately and send the approximately 30 guests home. But the operator initially did not comply with this request, which led to an escalation. He appeared aggressive and the police had to be called in. She explained the legal basis again to the operator and finally had a guest who refused to leave the restaurant taken into custody. The operator also received a ban, which he finally complied with, as in another report from the city of Ludwigshafen is to be read.
The health risks of passive smoking
The situation is particularly worrying for young guests who were exposed to cigarette smoke. As scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg have found, children from smoking households have a significantly higher risk of developing cancer. Children of smoking parents are three times more likely to be affected by nasal cancer, while pregnant women who smoke put their children's health at additional risk because they are more susceptible to bladder and kidney cancer, among other things. The risk for children remains, regardless of genetic factors or their own smoking behavior, reports the platform Children's health information.
The closure of the restaurant in Edigheim is not only a response to noise complaints, but also an important step to protect the health of children and young people. It remains to be hoped that these incidents will lead to a rethink and such risky situations will be avoided in the future.