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Smoking in cars
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PollyinBrum | Report | 11 Feb 2014 09:57 |
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Jonesey | Report | 11 Feb 2014 10:05 |
You're a bit late with the news Paula, That was yesterday and motion calling for the ban was carried by a big majority. MPs voted by 376 votes to 107, majority 269, in favour of an amendment to the Children and Families Bill which gives the Health Secretary power to impose a ban. |
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**Stella ~by~ Starlight**★..★..★ | Report | 11 Feb 2014 10:05 |
i think if the police suspected this they would need to pull the car over and measure the amount of smoke in the car on a meter . I read that smoke can linger in a car for several hours so there would have to be a measurement for recent activity of smoking.... |
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PollyinBrum | Report | 11 Feb 2014 10:13 |
Jonsey Possibly, I was all over the place yesterday. I have only just seen the TV. Local MP Lord Hunt of Kings Heath. saying The issue will be debated in Parliament later today( I thought he meant today) and MPs will be given a free vote on an amendment to the children and families bill. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 11 Feb 2014 10:14 |
it's common sense, can't understand anyone smoking in a car carrying children - BUT they haven't managed to stop people using mobile phones yet - the fine for that should be much higher - not sure what it is at the moment, but it should be at least £100 and confiscation of the phone and points on the license |
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**Stella ~by~ Starlight**★..★..★ | Report | 11 Feb 2014 10:18 |
i have seen policemen driving whist using a mobile phone.. |
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ZZzzz | Report | 11 Feb 2014 10:19 |
I think it is a ridiculous idea and simply another way of " government" to get money from us, all the years people have smoked in their own cars and there's no proof that it has affected anyone. |
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JustJohn | Report | 11 Feb 2014 10:23 |
I got done outside Talbot Green last year for using mobile phone. £60, I think - and many others wsere caught in their sting - probably no one wants to admit it in case of violence by infuriated people. |
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**Stella ~by~ Starlight**★..★..★ | Report | 11 Feb 2014 10:27 |
i think there is proof that passive smoking can cause cancer, and that is what is happening to children in the confined space of a car. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 11 Feb 2014 12:23 |
Under English law people's personal rights and freedoms have never extended to actions likely to cause pain and suffering to others. Over time parliament has, quite rightly, extended this concept and also added duties such as the requirement to get yr children educated and vaccinated. |
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Bobtanian | Report | 11 Feb 2014 12:25 |
have you noticed that most laws passed are to STOP you doing something........not many give you the right to do a particular action....... |
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Sharron | Report | 11 Feb 2014 12:27 |
Of course smoking should be banned in a car with children. |
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jax | Report | 11 Feb 2014 12:33 |
Although I am a smoker, I hated it as a child being forced to sit upstairs in a smoky bus for about an hour travelling to my grandparents. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 11 Feb 2014 12:43 |
My father smoked and didn't give up until after I had left home. We had a car in 1947 when I was 6 but strangely I don't remember him smoking in the car. OH used to smoke when our children were young but don't remember him smoking in the car. Surely it is not necessary. When travelling back from the Lake District we stopped at motorway services and had our coffee from a flask. We saw a young woman roar into the car park, leap out, smoke half a cigarette, leap back in and roar off. She must have been desperate. Maybe it was a company car and no smoking allowed. |
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Sharron | Report | 11 Feb 2014 12:46 |
I don't suppose you forced your children to be in the bar with the smoke jax. |
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**Stella ~by~ Starlight**★..★..★ | Report | 11 Feb 2014 12:57 |
i can remember when i was small and my parents were often in the pub, there was a little room where wives could have a drink and the children were allowed.. the thing i remember most was my eyes stinging and it wasn't until i was older i realized it was the thick smokey atmosphere... |
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jax | Report | 11 Feb 2014 13:18 |
There were times when the youngest who was born there had to be in the bar as she couldn't be left on her own upstairs....not often.....but it happened |
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**Stella ~by~ Starlight**★..★..★ | Report | 11 Feb 2014 13:23 |
i don't think people were as aware then of the dangers of smoking as they are now. |
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PollyinBrum | Report | 11 Feb 2014 13:47 |
Smoking kills, Passive smoking kills. That is fact. That's all I want to say. |
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**Stella ~by~ Starlight**★..★..★ | Report | 11 Feb 2014 13:49 |
Paula... that is all that needs to be said.. :-) |