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Old 16-01-2009, 20:20   #153
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Re: Should smoking in cars carrying children be banned?

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Until it is proven that smoking affects normally healthy people, including children, that is.
Wasn't that proven a long time ago?
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So smoking should be limited to the outside? That's the natural extention of the no smoking in cars policy, is it not? After all if passive smoking is bad for children in cars, it must be just as bad in the home, mustn't it?
Yes, but how would you feel if the government started regulating what you do in your own home. On the road if fair game though, as you are in public.

A far better idea would be to start charging a fee for treatment of smoke-related health problems.
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