Scotland to ban smoking in cars with children

[dollarneed]

smoker should know the impact of the cigarate especially for their body and their children, just to avoid smoking when non-smokers travelling with you guys. Smoking around children is also a "taboo" fo . So, this law is a good and necessary one.keep it up

[redsn0w]

Bump.

[JarvisTechnology]

Bump.

Scotland was the first country in the UK to ban smoking in enclosed public places in 2005,
They protect young people from secondhand smoke.
which contains more than 4,000 chemicals, and exposure which increase the risk of chest infections, asthma and cot death in children.
The SNP government pledged in 2013 to achieve a tobacco-free generation within 20 years, with less than 5% of the population choosing to smoke by the target date of 2034.

[clipman77]

Why do you smoke, it's bad for your health, you are slowly killing yourself by paying money for that tobacco corporations.

[tyrexs]

This will never work,  If parents or adults do not have the brains to realise, or do not care that children's health is at high risk from tobacco smoke, then the law makers have to do something about it.

[BillyBones]

To be honest, Hats Off to Scotland, smoking itself injurious to their health and they are spreading those injurious nicotine fumes even to the children, I would vote for appreciation if the Scotland Government ban even smoking in the Cars irrespective of being driving alone or with kids.

[photon_coin]

I am all for health but each new power given to police or governments is 1000x harder to get back and things tend to build on other concepts ...

In 10 years will over weight kids get taken away.

[muhrohmat]

well scotland has its premises to do the rules of that i dont think ints unconsesual that the pay out bill for smoking with childern in cars we be a problem but besides that i dont need to see kids smoking parents smoke into cars soo its a good and healthy mesure

[Toshiorun]

Smoking in cars with children?! Fuck people are stupid...

[jayce]

Maybe scotland government did that because there were some retarded people that didn't care about their children health, and smoked in the car. If we know the effect of smoking to our health, and we still ignore it, then it's okay, since we can do whatever we want to our selves. But, we are stupid if we ignore this problem to our kids. Or do we wanna make our children become a smoker too? It depends on how we take care of them.

[tyrexs]

Maybe scotland government did that because there were some retarded people that didn't care about their children health, and smoked in the car. If we know the effect of smoking to our health, and we still ignore it, then it's okay, since we can do whatever we want to our selves. But, we are stupid if we ignore this problem to our kids. Or do we wanna make our children become a smoker too? It depends on how we take care of them.

totally agree with you, government started make some rules about smoking, this is good. maybe with this way some people care about their children health

[masterzino]

It's already been banned in my country for years now, kind of have a neutral stance on it. If parents are willing to smoke in the car with children the damage is probably already done.

[Racey]

Here in Hawaii, they upped the smoking age to 21.

Now I can't drink or smoke till i'm 21.

Besides this, I think that Scotland took a great step forward. Stopping lung disease and cancer from the source. It would be good to ban smoking in the house too though.

Kids smoke and drink the world over, been like that for many years, both are very bad for your health and should be stopped at the root cause.
I smoked for over thirty years, stopped 10 years ago, great for my health,  make one exception with alcohol I  was at celebration once, got drunk, got sick, never had a drink of it since  Also when you have know and seen many people die from alcohol related diseases it put you right off.

[BADecker]

The title to this thread seems to be ambiguous. Is it that Scotland is trying to ban smoking in cars that have children in them? Or is it that Scotland is trying to use children (the excuse of children in the car) to ban smoking in all cars, and this is the start of it?

[linenoise]

I see many kids being dropped off at the local elementary school with the parents smoking, windows up. This is beyond stupid.. then again multiple studies show that smokers are statistically lower educated and lower income earners, maybe they actually are too dumb to know this isn't right. Remember half the people out there have IQs less than 100.

The problem is where do you draw the line. If the kid is overweight and has a happy meal in the car is that ticket worthy as it's bad for the health?

[ShamrockHannah]

I wouldn't want to smoke around children anyway. I always think it's very selfish and inconsiderate when people do but even so people should have freedom of choice, doing people from doing what they want can cause other problems sometimes

[BTCFaucets]

I always feel that those who are not ready to be parents should never even think of having children in the first place. This is not just the issue of smoking in cars with children, this is also in conjunction with responsibilities and having the maturity to teach and raise their kids well. Apprently, if you do not care enough to smoke far away from your children, then being a parent is definitely not suitable for you.

[maku]

I always feel that those who are not ready to be parents should never even think of having children in the first place. This is not just the issue of smoking in cars with children, this is also in conjunction with responsibilities and having the maturity to teach and raise their kids well. Apprently, if you do not care enough to smoke far away from your children, then being a parent is definitely not suitable for you.

You are right. If parents are dumb enough to smoke with child in a car they definitely are not great parenting material. But I am opposed to laws like this, because it should be INTERNAL MATTER of family, government and cops have nothing to do with this. If some parent want to smoke and endanger his/her kid let them do this, its their children they are harming. It is waste of money to create laws like these.