Quote:
Originally Posted by martyh
That's because it's classed as smoking in the workplace and you can't really criticize the police for enforcing a law ,no matter how ludicrous you think that law is .
I meant that if a person over 18 is smoking in the presence of an under 18yr old who is also smoking
|
It's a question of prioritising more important matters IMO, especially when they are ignoring intelligence received about suspected internet paedophiles and sending out DIY fingerprint kits to victims of burglary due to "a lack of resources".
From the point of view of this new legislation, I don't think it would matter if the under 18 year old was smoking, the over 18 year old would still be committing an offence.
However, from what I've read, it's more or less being ignored by the police and only one person has been prosecuted thus far, so nothing is likely to happen in practice.
So an adult is stopped for smoking on his own in his own van, yet children who are forced to sit in a metal box full of smoke are ignored.
There was a joke going round Facebook that said 'the law of unintended consequences', where a child was stood outside in the rain whilst her dad had a cig in his car
