Let’s ban smoking in cars
Wednesday 24th March 2010, 10:30AM GMT.
Banning smoking in cars makes perfect sense because it protects those who are most at risk, the children of smokers, writes Charlie Cashdan.
It is now being suggested that the smoking ban should be extended to include cars in the hope that this will protect children from having to breathe in second-hand smoke.
Hopefully it will also make those who smoke around their children think twice. If you are doing something which is so harmful to your kids that the Government try to ban it, why on earth are you still doing it in the first place?
Not only are their delicate lungs still forming, but surely children of smokers are far more likely to become smokers themselves in later life?
Yes, I know I’m a non-smoker and can’t possibly understand what that nicotine rush feels like, but it’s your children’s health. What could be more important than that?
It really shouldn’t take a change in the law to make parents think twice about smoking in a confined space with their children present. In fact, shouldn’t having children be the greatest incentive to make you quit altogether?
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one… small…point…most people driving in cars DO NOT HAVE KIDS IN THEM!!! How stupid to ban smoking in cars, when there’s just one person who can’t smoke anywhere else inside it!!! It LUDICROUS!
ever wondered how many kids will be killed by speeding smokers desperate for a ciggy after being stuck in a london traffic jam for three hours!?? LOTS!! MORE THAN WILL BE SAVED!!
like I said.. satire is dead.
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What ever happened to freedom of choice ? This nanny state gets more ridiculous by the year, and yet, we have pollution destroying the earth, our kids are living in this. Is a smoking ban in the car, really going to cut down the damage to there lungs, or shall we mask them up, because sincerely, theres more pollution outside.
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What a load of rubbish. They must think people blow smoke in childrens faces. This is just Nanny culture gone mad. Have these people got nothing better to do than moan.
If you want to smoke in your car then it’s your car you can do as you damm well please.
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if the government want everyone to quit smoking there is an easy solution just ban selling tobacco altogether but NO they won’t do that they would lose far too much cash
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i agree, no smoking in the car if there are kids in the car with you, or non smokers,this has gone to far, it is time the smoker got up and fight for your rights, who gave the goverment the right to bann smoking without putting it to a vote to the nation, a few doctors round a table??, if they can do this, what will be next alcohol,
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What about the rights of children and non-smokers??? How dare anyone say its their right to do as they please. When a smoker is dying of cancer, they nearly always sob “why me?” Why not, when they bring it on themselves.
Ignorant, selfish smokers just cannot and will not see the evil of their ways and need slapping down. I would stick them all in an air-tight room and leave them to smoke themselves to death!
One day, just one day, we might see the end of this filthy repulsive dangerous bad habit and look back and wonder how so many could have been so stupid.
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