THE man in charge of public protection in Warrington would like to see smoking banned in cars.
Pete Astley, the borough council’s public protection manager, is supporting calls by leading doctors for a ban on the use of tobacco in vehicles.
He believes this would help protect future generations.
Mr Astley said: “Smoking in cars can have serious consequences for children exposed to second hand smoke. It also increases the likelihood that they will become smokers themselves, perpetuating health inequalities.
“We take great care to place them in car safety seats, we provide seat belts and check they are safely strapped in, yet we put their health at serious risk by smoking around them.”
The council and NHS Warrington has a tobacco control strategy in place which includes protecting young people and preventing the uptake of smoking as a key objective.
In Warrington there are 1,000 new smokers each year – nearly all of who are young people.”
While a ban on smoking in cars will directly help to reduce these damaging effects on children’s health, Mr Astley says all smokers should try to quit to reduce the impact of children and young people taking up smoking later on, potentially giving them an extra 10 years of healthy life.
More free information and advice about giving up smoking in Warrington can be obtained from 01925 843713.
Council chief wants smoking ban in cars
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What is a Public Protection Manager and how much would we save if we dispensed with him and his staff? Loads of money being paid for people to read press reports and pass the info on to people who don’t believe them..
People who smoke in cars when their kids are also in it REALLY annoy me !!!!! They are SELFISH IDIOTS !
But an overall ban of smoking in cars will not only affect all other drivers too but the people that it is actually aimed at probably wont take any notice of it. Just like the ones who still use their mobiles !!!!! AND THESE SAME SMOKERS WILL CONTINUE TO SMOKE IN THEIR HOMES WHILST THEIR KIDS SIT NEXT TO THEM ETC…………. So is smoking in homes going to be the next ban ???
Anyone who smokes obviously has very little intelligence, if they don’t understand the dangers and are blind to the obnoxious secondhand effects, they will probably not be able to understand any new laws.
Well that’s me any many others told then 🙂 !! I smoke (although I wish I could stop for good as I have managed to ‘quit’ 4 times and started again). However I have NEVER smoked in my car with kids or other non smokers etc … nor have I ever smoked in my house or anyone elses…. in an office…..or even in a resteraunt when it was allowed as I never thought it was fair on the non smokers. Other than having the smoking habit though I am quite an intelligent person 🙂
I made the point the way I did because I knew that it would hit home and annoy some people to the point where they would try to quit. Here’s another way to look at it : If you had to answer the question “Are tattoos and smoking an indicator of high or low intelligence?” How would you answer? I know that it’s not a fair question, but if you really had to give an answer, could you see yourself saying ‘High’ ?
Same here Dizzy and I reckon the vast majority of reasonable people think the same way. Course there’s always going to be some that have no respect for others just as there’s always going to be someone with views like Mr Caddy.
I thank you for trying to make me quit Eric but your comment didn’t really annoy me although you are completely right that smoking is rather stupid:) As for your question regarding tattoos/smoking and high/low levels of intelligence I’m not entirely sure I fully understand what you are asking me to answer there !?!? There are many people with tattoos who may outwardly appear to fall into your low intelligence category although wether that is really due to an overall low level of intelligence or just a moment of madness or rebelion could be questionable…. just as there are also many other people with tatoos who are highly intelligent beings 🙂
I have a tremedous amount of respect for lots of people – just not smokers and tattoo wearers. One assaults my lungs, the other my eyes. You don’t have to agree with me, but I challenge you to justify either.
For Public Protection – read Trading Standards….with a wider remit. With regards to their work, the other news headline “Loan shark jailed four and-a-half years” gives an indication of the important work that they do do to protect the public.
I must say Eric Caddy your views are selfish , arrogant and rather archaic. But thats just my view. As yours are your own views. If you think your words will stop someone smoking i'm afraid you are disillusioned.
Btw i am neither a smoker or have tattoo's , although some of my colleagues smoke and have tattoo's. Two of them are surgeons. Im sure you would refuse them operating on you if ,god forbid, you took ill.
I cant follow that Smithy, you have described Mr Caddy to a Tea, (lol)
If the NHS are so against smoking etc. why do they continue to allow smoking on the hospital grounds? Having spent months back and to visiting a sick relative, I was amazed at the number of people who wheel themselves down to the front or back doors; attached to drips, in wheelchairs and god knows what else. There are huge signs saying NO SMOKING ON THESE PREMISES OR GROUNDS (or words to that effect) and yet the smokers still congregate around the doors smoking. The staff however have to go outside the grounds and all stand near the bus stop on Lovely Lane, which gives a wonderful advert for the NHS stop smoking campaigns! Why not actually enforce these no smoking on the grounds policies and get their own acts together first?
I like smoking, taking into consideration the dangerous things the average person does through out the day smoking is fairly low risk.
Even lower to those around them. As for those self righteous people who think that my smoking affects their precious lungs, well let me assure you you are not exactly carbon neutral, you expire carbon dioxide, over 20 billion bacteria, your TV is and computer monitor as you type this emits harmful radiation, your car emits deadly heavy elements and particles, you shed 1.5lbs of skin a year which feeds billions of microscopic creatures most of which are harmful to me. and your intolerant attitude towards fellow men causes stress levels which only serve to increase the desire for the smoke. No evidence exists that passive smoking is dangerous in any way. And finally Tobacco came to this country in 1492 when the average life expectancy was 39, today we can expect to live to 69 thereby proving by using the same kind of manipulated rubbish that you lot rely on that smoking makes you live longer. Smoking was most commonplace after the second world war, and was permitted everywhere. and yet the people of that period have been the oldest surviving people thus far in history. There has been an active campaign to reduce smoking since the late 70s…and yet this has produced the highest population of asthmatic generations ever. plus the most aggressive of youth. We all accept darwins theory of evolution, which states the law “survival of the fittest” man has adapted to his environment and the more perverse environment I subject myself to the more resistant my future offspring will be. So when you namby pambys have all died out, us smokers will be laughing our lungs out !
There speaks a man who will go to considerable lengths to convince himself and others that he is something other than a weak-willed addict.