See: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/8308946.stm
"During that hearing, they heard that he handed the lit cigarette to the child and encouraged her to inhale it.
Conroy then persuaded another child, aged 14, to film it on a mobile phone for fun, the court heard.
But it was this that proved to be his undoing when the footage, which was recorded on 24 February, was discovered and he was reported to the police.
In the footage Conroy can be heard laughing and at one point someone is heard saying: "She'll smoke it all herself."
The court heard that when the girl put the cigarette out in an ashtray, she asked for another. "
This bloke is obviously as rough as old boots, and scummy too boot, but a 3-year-old is not going to suffer long-term health damage from smoking a cigarette like this, yet this bloke gets 18 months in prison.
OTOH, you can sit with four kids in your car/house with the windows up, smoking like a chimney, smoke in your baby's bedroom, whatever you like, and do it for years, and nothing will be done.
18 months is the same sentence as was handed down for grooming and raping a child recently www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Man-jailed-18-months-seducing-14-year-old-girl/article-1352791-detail/a rticle.html