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Anyone who smokes in a car with kids or other non smokers are selfish and complete idiots IMO. Can you not wait that long to have a fag?

If you rub two together thickly enough yes

It can't do them no harm? Who keeps the window closed when having a ciggie anyway?

Updated : Click me

Smoking in cars with children will be banned in England, under new laws put forward by the government.

The regulations laid before Parliament propose banning smoking in cars containing under 18s.

A fine of £50 will be issued to people who smoke or who fail to prevent another person smoking.

MPs will vote on the plans before the election - and if they are passed the change in law will come into force on 1 October.

The move comes after a free vote in Parliament in February gave ministers the power to introduce the law, although it did not compel them to.

Public health minister Jane Ellison said: "Second-hand smoke is a real threat to children's health and we want them to grow up free from the risks of smoking.

"The only effective way to protect children is to prevent them breathing second-hand smoke and our plans to stop smoking in cars carrying children will help us to do this."

A fine of £50 will be issued to people who smoke or who fail to prevent another person smoking.

Hello and why should I tell the other person not to smoke ?
How is that enforceable then ?

Does anyone know if the law applies to convertibles?

can't smoke with under 18's in the car, but i know some people under 18 who smoke and/or don't mind smokers

i'm a non-smoker, and honestly i find this 'law' ridiculous. How on earth it's going to be policed is a mystery and as Nuddy says, do convertibles count? what if all the windows are open?

they've done enough to stop people smoking by hiking the prices, kicking them out of pubs, giving enough health warnings, if people still want to go ahead and do it, let them...

I think what we are talking here is the right for children not to be subjected to the effects of secondhand smoke. As a smoker myself I won't smoke in a car with a non smoking adult let alone a child, it is just common decency and manners.