So if I'm driving my 17 year old

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and we're both smoking, I can be prosecuted?

Seems strange to me given that a 16 year old can legally smoke.

AIBU to think they should have thought it through a bit more with regards to age?

Not discussing the health implications, more interested in the potential for time-wasting for both smokers & Plod...

Sorry that you thought I had dismissed it. I don't dismiss evidence, just sneaky, self serving interpretations of it.

As for a precautionary principle, well yes. But again the soundbite politicking are making more of this than it merits. I think more about what it is they are distracting the public from - the places children are far more likely to be 'smoked on' over many hours, by multiple people.

And then I think about how that problem can be countered, and wonder why it is not!

And then I wonder why an almost unpoliceable law has been passed?

I know no one who has been prosecuted for using their phone in a car, national figures seem stable at about 7,000 per year in England and Wales, with possible targets including every single driver on the road. This law has more variables and fewer possible targets, smokers and kids in the car. I have to wonder, what use will it really be?