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No Smoking In Cars Becomes Law
from October 2015, if you have a passenger under 18 years old.
As if the police, haven't got enough to do, unless we are going to have car smoking detectors..
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As if the police, haven't got enough to do, unless we are going to have car smoking detectors..
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From the link in the OP ... > Every time a child breathes in secondhand smoke, they breathe in thousands of chemicals. This puts them at risk of serious conditions including meningitis, cancer, bronchitis and pneumonia. It can also make asthma worse. Very laudable. So why is the legal age for smoking 16? Under this law, an 18 year old non-smoker could be...
09:10 Fri 14th Aug 2015
Unbelievably, my father in law insists on smoking his thin cigars in the house and the car ! No matter if anyone else is there,he says "It is his house,and his right":-(. He smokes over every person that comes into the house and i dread to think how much 2nd hand smoke my mil gets. I have now refused to be in the house when he is there.
Ummm...millions of adults still waste huge sums of money everyday on cigarettes. I meet a chap most mornings when I get my Guardian, who buys 3 packs of cigarettes ! The thick end of £30, as you say.
An aspect of cigarette smoking that isn't discussed very much, is the sheer cost of so doing, and its link with poverty.
To speak plainly, the lower down the socio-economic scale you are in Britain today, the more likely you are to still smoke. Most educated and middle class people no longer smoke. So its obvious that smoking is a major constituent cause of poverty. I live in a relentlessly working class area, and almost all the single mothers I see taking their kids to school are smoking. Add to that the high proportion of the older teenegers that I see smoking on the estate and the prognosis for the future doesn't look good. That 19% to 21% of adults that still continue to smoke on Wales are going to be very difficult to deal with going forward. The easy low-hanging fruit are gone.
An aspect of cigarette smoking that isn't discussed very much, is the sheer cost of so doing, and its link with poverty.
To speak plainly, the lower down the socio-economic scale you are in Britain today, the more likely you are to still smoke. Most educated and middle class people no longer smoke. So its obvious that smoking is a major constituent cause of poverty. I live in a relentlessly working class area, and almost all the single mothers I see taking their kids to school are smoking. Add to that the high proportion of the older teenegers that I see smoking on the estate and the prognosis for the future doesn't look good. That 19% to 21% of adults that still continue to smoke on Wales are going to be very difficult to deal with going forward. The easy low-hanging fruit are gone.
Given how difficult it is to tell the age of some teenagers, ans the amount of time security staff spend scrutinising the photos on ID cards, how are the Police supposed to look into the dark interior of a moving car, instantly assess the ages of any non driving occupants, and pull the car over, by which time any cigarette would have vanished out of the window, and the smell is because I sometimes smoke in the car when the children are not here, officer ... repeat for every car the Police see, every day, because it will be the "in fashion" rule of the moment.
The Police must really be looking forward to having to enforce this one.
The Police must really be looking forward to having to enforce this one.
