Smoking in Cars

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

Yeah me too, won't be able to play the pull my finger game!

http://misternicehands.com/

You can play this at home...

 

[slowmotion]

Will the child-carrying car smoking ban be enforced as rigorously as the smoking in work vehicles one? If so, why bother with this piece of legislation in the first place?

 

[Vapin' Joe]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/...h-sturdy-new-boots-and-compass-20151001102508

 

[jefmcg]

Y

becoming a nanny state.

Someone had to say it. But the nanny state is when we are being treated like children. This is treating children like children. I'm ok with that.

(I was raised in a pall of tobacco smoke. I think this ban is a good thing)

 

[YahudaMoon]

It's the hundreds of cars, trucks and buses pumping out zillions of toxic fumes I breath in on my bicycle commute you drivers extract every day is far worse than passive smoking

 

[Pat "5mph"]

As of today adults are banned from lighting up in a car if there are kiddies in there with them.

Surely even the most ardent smoker doesn't need a law to tell them to stop doing something so flipping stupid, or am I living I a wonderful la-la land where even smokers can be expected to use common sense when enjoying their hobby?

I think you are around my age: don't you remember everybody routinely smoking everywhere?

 

[Drago]

Yep, sure do, but that had already waned quite severely before the laws came in.

Nice to know I'm not the only 22 year old on the forum!

 

[stephec]

Blimey, I thought that was compulsory!

GC

I hope so.

 

[SD1]

I have noticed so many people smoking in the garden when they have children in the house. In the past that never happened. So it is definitely getting through to the majority. So the law is designed to deal with the selfish and the retarded. Assuming there not one and the same.

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

I wish they would ban smoking on cycles, its disgusting when you get stuck behind one

 

[winjim]

So the law is designed to deal with the selfish

Same goes for pretty much all laws. If everyone was a bit more considerate, we would hardly need laws at all. And I certainly don't use legality to guide my decision making.

 

[swansonj]

Indeed it is. For every pound the NHS spend in treating smoking related illnesses, the NHS receives 6 from tobacco taxation.!

In my day job, I was once researching cost-benefit analyses for health interventions, and I came across a governmental cost-benefit from I think Czechoslovakia (or possibly another east European country), basically concluding that they couldn't afford to reduce the prevalence of smoking.

 

[Tin Pot]

As of today adults are banned from lighting up in a car if there are kiddies in there with them.

Surely even the most ardent smoker doesn't need a law to tell them to stop doing something so flipping stupid, or am I living I a wonderful la-la land where even smokers can be expected to use common sense when enjoying their hobby?

Where's this sudden out break of flower-power libertarianism coming from?

I've been mulling these things over for a few years - essentially I reckon laws are coming in to stop people doing what peer pressure should. Except that we have undermined that pressure somewhat by making sensible people afraid to speak out in public or heaven forbid, touch another person.

Also, with the movement of people and increase in city living, people are amongst strangers - have no reason to respect them, and some to fear them.

So I think we're in an awkward position - social constraints have been removed, and the law is trying to compensate. Personally I think it's a hammer for a nut.

 

[Gravity Aided]

In the early 1980's, I bought a Ford Granada that had been owned by a smoker, and spent the better part of the day cleaning tar off all the interior surfaces. It filled several rags with brown tar and smoke residue. I wouldn't want that in my lungs, or anybody elses. There is also research which shows tobacco use exacerbates earache in children
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9802/10/smoke.ear/

 

[Ian H]

Protection of children and others who can't defend themselves adequately is probably something the law should address.