FOR many years all authorities have emphasised that smoking in confined spaces is detrimental to the health of non-smokers in the same space.
Smoke-free leglislation in 2004/6 has consequently resulted in hotels, pubs, cafés, etc, being smoke-free with little need for police enforcement. Most people agree and concur with the rules. It could be expected that this form of abstinence would be followed by smokers in their cars.
Now Parliament is set to vote on stopping smoking in a car when a child is present (no mention of a non-smoking adult).
In view of the fact that most of the time the vehicle is likely to be moving, even with several offenders in other vehicles, this particular law is practically impossible to enforce.
Furthermore, valuable Parliamentary time need not be spent debating such a feeble law.
J Beisly, Osprey Close, York.
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