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I dare not say that drivers who want to smoke in your own car, knowing the risks, but not harm anyone but themselves, must be stopped

"Now, suddenly, the German language in Europe," said an ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the lack of tact, made yesterday.

But the proposal of the British Medical Association is that smoking in cars should be banned in all tests the circumstances that you do not have to speak German to make solutions too authoritarian?

is not a case where the medical facts are open to challenge much longer. Everyone knows that smoking is unhealthy and bad for about a smoker whose smoke can be inhaled. Smoking in public buildings was banned in England in 2007 - with much less hassle than I expected - after it had already been banned in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as in several other places in the developed world

toxic levels can accumulate rapidly in the interior of a car is up to 23 times the levels found in a smoky bar, the BMA said. Children (of passengers in this context) absorb toxins more quickly than adults and can also acquire the habit of smoking. Approximately 80,000 people a year die from smoking-related diseases in Britain. The numbers are terrible.

But the question here is really this - how will the good society to protect its citizens from doing things that are legal but potentially dangerous, "The Guardian runs an online survey where you can express choice?.

A wide range of options such as drink and drugs to food cheap, but unhealthy for the sale and the maximum speed on motorways, which offer the same dilemma. This is one to which many people think that there is no easy answer - people must do what the experts have told us (or more). However, many others are strongly opposed to a.

as John Reid, who put the health secretary (who was promoting the idea of ??a compromise smoking "huts" in pubs and other places), his old mother in the region Glasgow has some pleasures, and a smoke screen is one of them. He eventually lost the argument in the cabinet, Patricia Hewitt, whose position appears to have overcome difficult.

However, nanny instincts work in the office sometimes contradicts their liberal instincts or commercial. Voters gave the green light to spend all day at the bar and more time and more casinos, but could not smoke in all the foxes and hunt -. Not with the dogs, anyway

While decentralized governments are to continue their own way in all sorts of questions (Scotland is setting a minimum price per unit for alcohol, although critics say it is too low), the ministers of the United Kingdom are drawn on plain packaging for cigarettes (advertising to weaken, and very limited), which was approved last week in Australia.