| Smoking cigarettes or other tobacco product must be | | | | prevent all the children from harm there should be a |
| banned in any vehicle. This is to make children less | | | | protection against second-hand smoke. |
| exposed to second hand smoke. Doctors also said | | | | The same report suggests that the prices of all |
| that it should be banned in public places where children | | | | tobacco products should be increased and smoking |
| or teenagers are walking or playing frequently. | | | | should be forbidden in public places and vehicles which |
| The Royal College of Physicians has made a report | | | | are used by children. Also if someone is involved in illicit |
| with recommendations and conclusions, which has | | | | tobacco trading, he should be penalized and better |
| examined the health risk that children are exposed to | | | | controlled. |
| smoking and have shown some strategies to solve | | | | On the other side are those persons who like smoking |
| the problem. | | | | and who were very angry when they found out that |
| There exists a law which already forbids smoking in | | | | there should be a ban in vehicles. The spokesperson |
| vehicles which are considered "workplaces". The | | | | of Association of British Drivers, Nigel Humphries told |
| report has shown that the present law didn't have so | | | | BBC News that the car is a private place and it too |
| much success like other laws regarding the same | | | | much to interfere in their personal lives. John Britton is a |
| subject. That law has lead to exposure to smoke for | | | | professor and chairman of the college's tobacco |
| employees who are younger. Many of those | | | | advisory group and he has supported the medical |
| employees are coming from lower socio-economic | | | | reasons of the ban. It is very important to realize that |
| groups. | | | | passive smoking is killing children and no one should |
| A tobacco advisory group from a college has made a | | | | allow that. |
| report where it is said that passive smoking has | | | | To the question about the interfering of healthcare |
| caused more than 165,000 new episodes of disease in | | | | professionals into people's personal lives and how far |
| kids every year. And in hospitals were admitted 9,500 | | | | they would go, John Britton answered: "Where there's |
| children. | | | | a conflict between the health or choice of an adult and |
| There have been almost 40 sudden infant deaths | | | | the health or rights of a child, the child should take |
| each year and 200 cases of bacterial meningitis which | | | | precedence. |
| were the consequences of the smoke inhalation. So to | | | | |