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In research released on Wednesday, the group that represents U.K. doctors said the confined environment in cars exposes drivers and passengers to 23 times more toxins than a smoky bar. Children are particularly vulnerable to second-hand smoke since they absorb more pollutants. Smoke can linger in cars long after cigarettes have been smoked.
In countries including Australia, Canada, and parts of the U.S., smoking in cars is banned when children are present. In the U.K., smoking in public vehicles like buses and trains is banned but there is no law against smoking in private cars.
Dr. Vivienne Nathanson of the association said Wednesday that the government should now take a "bold and courageous step."
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The British nanny state never fails to amaze me. It should just give up and wrap everyone in cotton wool, lest they stub their toes or break a fingernail, and be done with it. But of course then no one will be able to leave their council house to work, so they'll just live off the nanny state and the Bank of England will just print money to pay for it all, then it will be Weimar Germany all over again except in the UK and everyone dies either in the war that follows or from starvation because farmers quit, and maybe some hungrier and hardier Chinese sail in pick up the land.
Hah! The adult who is driving opens their wind-wing a bit (do you recall those?) to suck out the smoke, and the kids don't breathe it. I can appreciate a social safety net as much as the next person, but every day is a risk. The hazards of living are preferable to a certain doom of not living. "Fear not death, but never having lived," I recall.