MP calls for smoke ban in cars carrying children!
on June 22nd, 2011 at 9:30 pmA Labour MP has called for a ban on adults smoking in cars where children are present, saying it would bring “tremendous” health benefits. Alex Cunningham said children were particularly vulnerable to the effects of passive smoking and could not “remove” themselves from cars where cigarette smoke was circulating. Parents simply exercising restraint was “not good enough”, he told MPs. But one Tory MP called the plan “over the top” and “ludicrous”. Mr Cunningham said the “science was clear” about the dangers of passive smoking and that societal attitudes had changed on the issue in the past decade – reflected by the ban on smoking in public transport, planes and taxis. Research suggested more than 300,000 children visited doctors every year with health problems associated with passive smoke, he said, while there were 20,000 new cases of asthma and wheezing among children every year. More
