Drivers in England will be banned from smoking in their cars if they are carrying children as passengers.The move, which will become law on 1 October, follows a similar ban in Wales and aims to protect young people under 18 from second-hand smoke. Scotland is also considering introducing a ban.Anyone found flouting the law in England could be fined £50.Of course this will be unworkable as so many cars these days have tinted rear windows. So the obvious next step will be to ban smoking in ALL cars.
Once they've gained control of how you use this item of private property, they'll continue to the next logical step. Homes.
Firstly they'll prevent those living in council owned housing from smoking indoors. The local authority will come up with the excuse that as owners of the property they have a duty of care to the children in those properties.
Finally there will come the ultimate step of "we can't have two classes of children". Those who are protected and those wicked home owners who are poisoning their cheeeldren. A smoking ban law will be enacted to prevent you smoking in your home that you have bought and paid for.
I suspect that will enable councils to lobby for laws to enable officials to enter your home unannounced to ensure that you are abiding by this unalloyed nonsense.
Even if readers here are non smokers. Be afraid. They'll be after your guilty little pleasure next. The bansturbators pleasure will be you next.
In point of fact the obvious next step is to ban tinted windows then they can see what else you might be doing in the car.
ReplyDeleteThis is how it started in the USSR - all good causes, they thought.
ReplyDeleteI doubt it, probably just ban smoking and that will be it. At worst they will go on to ban other distracting things while driving. But hardly going to be the next USSR. Non smokers can relax I think. Smoking ban never affected them either, only the inconsiderate behind the times smokers.
ReplyDeleteFuck me, talk about myopic. That will not "be it," just as the smoking ban wasn't "it". There's always one more logical step (as TFE notes in the post above).
DeleteAnd if you think non-smokers aren't affected by the current mania for bans and curtailment of liberties, or that they won't be in the future, then you're in for an unpleasant surprise.
Any council wonk entering MY home unannounced will be leaving most rikki tic with an arsefull of teeth, not all of which will belong to the dog :-)
ReplyDeleteI suspect that will enable councils to lobby for laws to enable officials to enter your home unannounced to ensure that you are abiding by this unalloyed nonsense.
ReplyDeleteDo they need to?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-2912568/Right-entry-figures-challenged.html
Are Cars really your property.
ReplyDeleteYou have to comply with DVLA registration and tax demands. You don't tax it or tell them what you are doing you get fined. MOTs which were to ensure cars are safe now get failed because the don't comply with environmental requirements although they are still perfectly safe. Your car can be seized if it has no insurance, even if you are not driving it.
Is anything really yours in this mickey mouse country?
Well; your children nmust be taken into care as you have probably given then a genetic problem. Smokes should not breed. Nor live in a hoiuse as we do not know what you do at night.
ReplyDeletegenetically caused bad spelling?
Deletenmust = must?
hoiuse = house?
Dear Mr Lowe
ReplyDelete"Of course this will be unworkable as so many cars these days have tinted rear windows. So the obvious next step will be to ban smoking in ALL cars."
If the rear windows are tinted, how can they tell if a passenger is smoking?
I am not aware of any law which prohibits children from smoking, though it appears a police officer can confiscate cigarettes from a child under 16 smoking in public:
http://www.findlaw.co.uk/law/criminal/your_rights/500373.html
Thus if the only child in a car (a private place) is smoking, what can anyone in so-called 'authority' do? Apart from make up the law as they go along...
DP
Already Law in Western Australia
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