Gov.UK

[charisstoma]

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/smoking-in-vehicles

Is there already a law against smoking while pregnant?

Don't think this will fly over here with the power of the tobacco lobby.

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[2metaldog.livejournal.com]

They tried to do that here (in Ontario). I'm not sure if it was successful or not. I do know that they tried to make it illegal to smoke in your own home if you had kids. That failed spectacularly (thankfully). Given the nanny state/you're-too-stupid-to-be-allowed-to decide-anything government we have had for the last 15 years or so as a province, it wouldn't surprise me much if the smoking in the car thing passed.

Personally, I think it's a violation of a person's rights to regulate the use of a legal substance within your personal space on/in your personal property. No, I'm not a smoker and have never been a smoker. It's my experience that most smokers will not smoke in a car if you ask them not to and many won't if there are others in the car who don't smoke. if the car is not theirs, most will ask if they can smoke in it but the greater number I know will just wait it out until they get wherever they're going and light up then.

In a related note, our government here in Ontario has now made e-cigs (even the ones without nicotine in them) a controlled substance, prohibits the sale of them to under 19 and requires that they be kept behind the counter in a lockable closet just like cigarettes. Why? Because the tobacco companies were losing money to the e-cigs as people started vaping and actually quitting smoking and also reducing the government's HUGE tax on smokes (a cheap pack of cigarettes here is $8.50, 65% of which is tax).