MPs support smoking in cars ban
Welsh Government ministers will have the power to ban smoking in cars carrying children after a vote at Westminster.
Welsh Government ministers will have the power to ban smoking in cars carrying children after a vote at Westminster.
MPs have supported calls to ban smoking in cars. In a vote in the House of Commons last night, MPS voted to give England's Health Secretary the power to impose a ban in England. The move also allows the Welsh Government to introduce it in Wales.
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Smoking in cars should be banned period! You can't eat or drink behind the wheel so why should you be allowed to smoke?
Smoking is not good I agree but I am hooked. Common sense is needed in everything. I don't smoke in the house, even in this weather I go outside, to make yet another law is outrageous. The police have bigger issues to deal with.
Why do we need a ban on smoking in cars with children? It's common sense to most people not to do it.
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