Smoking with kids in the car

[DragonofAna]

You wish. Check the first four references in this wikipedia article.

 

Oh god! Not those facts again. Wikipedia of all things? But whatever. We have been through this debate about such facts before and got nowhere.

 

I think it is extremely dangerous telling people how to raise their kids, or telling people they are doing it wrong. Very dangerous. Perhaps suggestions on how you think bringing a child up better - as in advice but telling ... Someone has a death wish.

[Cat86]

I wasn't having a go at smokers in general & I don't agree with banning smoking in cars. ??

 

neither do I, but then I hate it getting into a car with a smoker- I dont smoke and hate having to smell it, even with the window open

[DragonofAna]

neither do I, but then I hate it getting into a car with a smoker- I dont smoke and hate having to smell it, even with the window open

 

Solution - Don't get in a car with a smoker. Sorted.

[SnailyBoy]

Looks like Wales may be making a move

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14142992

[HarmOKnee]

I'm a smoker and I think it should be banned in cars. I never smoke in my car, with or without kids in it and I don't allow other people to either. It makes the car smelly & dirty as well as being dangerous.

 

I was once a passenger in the back seat when someone flicked ash out of the window from the front, the ash blew back in straight in my eye. It was still red hot & could have blinded me. It was very painful for weeks.

[Uptowngirl]

Solution - Don't get in a car with a smoker. Sorted.

 

Do new born babies have an option?

[fake]

Perhaps people who drive cars should also install filters to filter out the exhaust fumes that are entering into the car as they are more dangerous than passive smoke. Opening the window while driving is also a bad idea. Failing that then a cocoon with oxygen supply should be available to new born babies travelling in cars.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-14152045

 

I agree with Xt500 in that most people over that age of 40 were subject to passive smoke and some who also smoked later in life and there are still here. My mother smoked 20+ a day and my father smoked a pipe and cigars and yet she had 8 healthy babies. Both parents are now dead and their deaths had nothing to do with smoking related problems.

 

I smoked for over 40 years and gave it up at Christmas simply because it was becoming too expensive. If it is that bad then the the sale and growing of tobacco should be outlawed.

[Uptowngirl]

Perhaps people who drive cars should also install filters to filter out the exhaust fumes that are entering into the car as they are more dangerous than passive smoke. Opening the window while driving is also a bad idea. Failing that then a cocoon with oxygen supply should be available to new born babies travelling in cars.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-14152045

 

I agree with Xt500 in that most people over that age of 40 were subject to passive smoke and some who also smoked later in life and there are still here. My mother smoked 20+ a day and my father smoked a pipe and cigars and yet she had 8 healthy babies. Both parents are now dead and their deaths had nothing to do with smoking related problems.

 

I smoked for over 40 years and gave it up at Christmas simply because it was becoming too expensive. If it is that bad then the the sale and growing of tobacco should be outlawed.

 

It is predicted that smoking will have disappeared completely in the UK within 30 years. So with increasing taxes and increases in restrictions on where smoking is permitted the government is banning smoking, but to avoid a backlash is mindful of the current few million addicts that need to pass through the system.

 

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/The-year-smoking-die-around-yahoofinanceuk-1475215623.html

 

The table below illustrates the year the trend hits zero in each of the following nations:

Country % of the population that smokes // Citi's earliest prediction for end of smoking

Sweden 15 2028

Australia 17 2030

Iceland 16 2033

Canada 18 2040

United Kingdom 21 2040

Norway 21 2042

United States 21 2046

Netherlands 28 2048

Belgium 20 2051

Japan 24 2054

Spain 26 2056

New Zealand 18 2058

Italy 23 2091

Finland 21 2093

France 25 2118

Greece 40 2231

Germany 23 2280

 

• Source: Citi Investment Research and Analysis based on OECD, national data, TMA and JT data

[SnailyBoy]

Perhaps people who drive cars should also install filters to filter out the exhaust fumes that are entering into the car as they are more dangerous than passive smoke. Opening the window while driving is also a bad idea. Failing that then a cocoon with oxygen supply should be available to new born babies travelling in cars.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-14152045

 

I agree with Xt500 in that most people over that age of 40 were subject to passive smoke and some who also smoked later in life and there are still here. My mother smoked 20+ a day and my father smoked a pipe and cigars and yet she had 8 healthy babies. Both parents are now dead and their deaths had nothing to do with smoking related problems.

 

I smoked for over 40 years and gave it up at Christmas simply because it was becoming too expensive. If it is that bad then the the sale and growing of tobacco should be outlawed.

 

As Dr Charles Godden, a consultant paediatrician at the Royal Surrey County Hospital said

 

"I'd love to hear somebody cogently explain why smoking in a car with a child in it is reasonable."

[fake]

Unless they stop production and sales it will never disappear, restriction are not a ban either.

 

What is now happening is that because of the decline of smoking in those countries the tobacco companies are now actively promoting smoking in 3rd world countries where there are no controls. In those countries smoking is very much on the increase. If cigarettes are still available then ways will be found to smuggle theme over here.

 

If the USA was that concerned, then instead of being PC about people smoking they would ban tobacco production outright. But, they wont do that for fear of a backlash from tobacco farmers and also because of the revenue from it.