Secret Cyclist: The roads need their own type of ‘smoking ban’

"Making our roads safer needs lots of solutions but one is staring us in the face - it involves slowing cars, vans, and trucks down"

Is slowing down the secret to safer roads?

Ireland made headlines around the globe in 2004 by becoming the first country in the world to ban smoking in all workplaces. 

Here are some quotes from newspapers that covered the story in 2014, on the tenth anniversary of the ban; ‘the vintners went ballistic, because they were terribly concerned about their livelihoods’, ‘in Cork, they called for the minister to be sacked for "being a zealot"’, ‘no other country had gone so far in tackling cigarette addiction and there were doubts that Ireland would make it across the line either.’