England and Wales ban on smoking in cars carrying under 18-year olds starts October 1

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No more smoking in car with children

JUST over two weeks before a total ban on adults smoking in cars carrying children under the age of 18, a major educational campaign will be run on billboards and with newspaper advertising.

The law will be enforced by the police with fines of £50 (€68) for the smoker plus the driver if allowing someone else to smoke in the car.

Welsh health minister Mark Drakeford said ‘Children are particularly at risk from second-hand smoke, which has been linked to a range of health issues, from sudden infant death syndrome, lung and ear infections and asthma. This danger is heightened when they are in the confined space of a car and can’t escape the fumes.’

‘There is evidence that even with windows open, the level of toxic chemicals remains high.’

Any vehicle enclosed wholly or partly by a roof will be affected. The ban still applies if people have the windows or sunroof open, have the air conditioning on, or if they sit in the open doorway of the vehicle. The law won’t apply to a convertible car with the roof completely down.

Ironically, a driver of 17, alone in the car will be able to smoke and at the moment, e-cigarettes are not covered by the ban.

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    • Jack Listerio

      14 September 2015 • 17:56

      The inconvenient truth is that the only studies of children of smokers suggest it is PROTECTIVE in contracting atopy in the first place. The New Zealand study says by a staggering factor of 82%.

      “Participants with atopic parents were also less likely to have positive SPTs between ages 13 and 32 years if they smoked themselves (OR=0.18), and this reduction in risk remained significant after adjusting for confounders.

      The authors write: “We found that children who were exposed to parental smoking and those who took up cigarette smoking themselves had a lower incidence of atopy to a range of common inhaled allergens.
      “These associations were found only in those with a parental history of asthma or hay fever.”

      They conclude: Our findings suggest that preventing allergic sensitization is not one of them.”
      The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
      Volume 121, Issue 1 , Pages 38-42.e3, January 2008

      .
      This is a Swedish study.

      “Children of mothers who smoked at least 15 cigarettes a day tended to have lower odds for suffering from allergic rhino-conjunctivitis, allergic asthma, atopic eczema and food allergy, compared to children of mothers who had never smoked (ORs 0.6-0.7)

      CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates an association between current exposure to tobacco smoke and a low risk for atopic disorders in smokers themselves and a similar tendency in their children.”
      Clin Exp Allergy 2001 Jun;31(6):908-14

    • Jack Listerio

      14 September 2015 • 18:07

      This pretty well destroys the Myth of second hand smoke:

      Lungs from pack-a-day smokers safe for transplant, study finds.

      By JoNel Aleccia, Staff Writer, NBC News.

      Using lung transplants from heavy smokers may sound like a cruel joke, but a new study finds that organs taken from people who puffed a pack a day for more than 20 years are likely safe.

      What’s more, the analysis of lung transplant data from the U.S. between 2005 and 2011 confirms what transplant experts say they already know: For some patients on a crowded organ waiting list, lungs from smokers are better than none.

      “I think people are grateful just to have a shot at getting lungs,” said Dr. Sharven Taghavi, a cardiovascular surgical resident at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, who led the new study………………………

      Ive done the math here and this is how it works out with second ahnd smoke and people inhaling it!

      The 16 cities study conducted by the U.S. DEPT OF ENERGY and later by Oakridge National laboratories discovered:

      Cigarette smoke, bartenders annual exposure to smoke rises, at most, to the equivalent of 6 cigarettes/year.

      146,000 CIGARETTES SMOKED IN 20 YEARS AT 1 PACK A DAY.

      A bartender would have to work in second hand smoke for 2433 years to get an equivalent dose.

      Then the average non-smoker in a ventilated restaurant for an hour would have to go back and forth each day for 119,000 years to get an equivalent 20 years of smoking a pack a day! Pretty well impossible ehh!

    • kay peukert

      15 September 2015 • 08:37

      there are so many IMPORTANT issues in the uk that
      NO ONE cares about -all they do is keep jumping on the bandwaggon about smoking.
      How about jumping on NICE that are ruining the health service – NICE say one thing other countries the complete opposite so uk gov say NICE right.
      ha ha
      kay

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