How would you feel if the government told you that you couldn’t smoke in your own car?
Perhaps you’d endorse the idea that public health officials were trying to make it harder for people to maintain a habit that increases their risk of developing lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease and a host of other problems. Maybe you’d rejoice that you’d never again be forced to carpool to a meeting with a chain-smoking colleague. You might even breathe a sigh of relief for all the children of smokers who would be able to ride to school, soccer practice and piano lessons without being forced to inhale clouds of secondhand smoke.
UK doctors call for ban on smoking in cars.
The British Medical Association is calling on the government to ban smoking at all times in cars, a step that would go beyond regulations elsewhere.
Darron Cummings, AP
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.
Other opinion: Banning smoking in cars is poisonous to a free society.
