| Smoking while driving could be a thing of the past | | | | The report wants adults to be banned from |
| if doctors get their own way. They have said this | | | | smoking in cars regardless of whether there are |
| week that the government should go further than | | | | childre present in the vechicle or not, as they feel |
| the law banning smoking in public places, and | | | | this is the only way that the law would be |
| prevent smokers from lighting up in their cars. | | | | enforceable. |
| Currently, the only cars that have smoking bans | | | | The Department for Health is taking it seriously, a |
| are company cars, extending the law about | | | | spokesman telling the BBC: ‘The government |
| smoking in the work place to the vehicles | | | | is looking at ways to go further to reduce the |
| provided. | | | | 9,500 children admitted to hospital every year as |
| But recommendations from the Royal College of | | | | a direct result of exposure to second-hand |
| Physicians are that children should be protected | | | | tobacco smoke.' |
| from passive smoking whilst riding in the safety | | | | The British Association of Drivers has bit back |
| of their parent's vehicles. The organisation claims | | | | however, saying that it is an invasion of civil rights |
| that over three hundred thousand extra children | | | | to be imposing limits on all drivers. |
| are admitted to hospitals and taken to doctors | | | | Regardless of whether you are a smoker or non |
| surgeries with asthma, as a direct result of being | | | | smoker, it is British law that when driving a |
| exposed to smoke. | | | | vehicle, you should have valid Car Insurance. |