smoking in the car when your children are with you.

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Does anybody think that this should be banned?
Lets face it passive smoking can be fatal adults will be protected in pubs and restaurants.
So why not children who have no choice but to be stuck in a car whilst their parents are puffing away.

fivefingered - i am glad to hear it, but i dont know what you mean....we are both perfectly ladylike and mature, i owuld never utter such foul language

lol lady like pmsl

I realise this, from personal experience i have found you both sublime.

OOh how intriguing.

wonder what sublime means..........

I well remember the awfulness of this as a child. Both my parent would both chain smoke for the whole journey.

Neither would open a window as they didn't like te wind to blow them about.

I would get horrifically car sick. One of my abiding memories of childhood holidays was vomiting in laybys while my mother shouted at me for 'making a fuss'

Madamz,passive smokers don't all develop lung cancer, but neither do all smokers. Are you refuting that smoking causes cancer?

The children of smokers are statistically far more likely to have chest infections and ent infects. Far more likely to need gromets etc.

I just think smoking in cars should be illegal. I followed someone yesterday who was trying to light up and they were all over the road. I also know someone who drove into a tree when he dropped a lit fag in his lap - he was well and truly on the tosser end of the scale anyway so I'm not saying he's representative of all smokers, but it can't be the safest thing in the world.

Mr LC once refused to speak to me from Watford Gap to the M11 because he asked me 'do you mind if I smoke?' when dd was asleep in the back seat on the way home from visiting ds, and I said 'no'.

I was equally furious with him because if he didn't want me to say no, then why tf ask me in the first place? He just wanted a sop to his conscience...

He's an intelligent man, but he cannot get his head round the fact that smoking around a child with dust-related eczema is not a good idea, and acts like a spoilt child himself if he doesn't get his way.

So far as I know, he doesn't smoke in his car when taking dd to nursery, but I know damn well he has a cig on the way to work thereafter, her carseat is covered with grey flakes of ash by the end of the week! Does my head in!

martianbishop, you have my every sympathy - my dad was an incredibly heavy smoker and our car journeys were a similar nightmare. Also he used to smoke in the kitchen before leaving for work, and when we got up for breakfast I always felt like I was suffocating in there and had to go outside to breathe - my mum also said I was being silly... it was only when I got a bit older I realised why I couldn't breathe - because the smoke of 5 fags was still drifting around our kitchen!

The ifrst thing both my parent would do in the morning would be to light up a fag. And the last thing at night. Dad used to smoke in bed!

Mum used to smoke 20 a day, Dad 40 a day, untipped Woodbines both of them.

My Father died of prostate cancer (higher incidence in smokers). I cicstied my mother on Friday. She has dementia caused by strokes, which were cause by high blood pressure which is, guess what, caused by smoking. She has no idea who I am, and hasn't for the last 4 years or so. Now she has no idea who she is

Smoking destroyed them both.

I think it should be banned. How awfull for the passengers , to be strapped in, unable to get away from the smoke

Thats so sad MB. The car journeys sound awful too.

Its discusting and makes me so

I was hideously car sick as a child as my mother smoked in the car. She never appreciated the connection between her smoking and me being sick. I hope the children of car smokers all vomit copiously over their parents cars.

I recently went on holiday to a friends. She persistently smoked in her car with me and GS in (no other form of transport to get around whilst there - so no choice). She knows that I am an asthmatic and recently recovering from a major attack. Gs made it very clear that he didn't like the smell and couldn't breathe properly. I do make my feelings very clear, but she takes absolutely no notice whatsoever. It's not about her being ignorant, it's more about people who are not affected by this issue or who smoke themselves not being aware of how bad it is for other people. They don't realise/care about what those who are affected say because they just see it as some form of personal atack. It has taken four weeks and bad attack to get my breathing back to normal - I am still working on my skin. Clothes aren't too much of an issue - they can be washed, but I literally had to throw away a new suitcase and GS's coat because I couldn't get rid of the smell and it just doesn't stay on whatever it's on - it permeates everything around it.
It is a smokers choice whether or not to light up when someone else is around, and unfortunately many people do not have the common sense or decency to think about how it affects those around them - so YES I personally think smoking should be illegal everywhere, except for in the persons home.

I find Madamez attitude towards this a bit , I must admit.
Smoking is a horrible habit, and the world would be a better place if cigarettes would have never existed, sigh....!
And to smoke around children is even worse.
It's jsut wrong on so many levels to smoke and drive...anyway...

dp and I saw a bloke smoking in his car, next to ours ,with the windows up apart from on his drivers side, when there was a very young baby in the back seat. I thought that was terrible and even dp (20 a day) thought so too, as he moved round to my side of the car to smoke his fag, as he didn't want to add to the misery of the baby in the back seat.

I remember my parents smoking heavily in the car too on family holidays and I wasn't allowed to open the windows either. God it was bad, it really used to make me feel sick.