Group to continue fight for ban on smoking in cars

AN anti-smoking lobby group will continue to lobby for smoking to be banned in cars to protect children, despite failing to persuade the Government to introduce the prohibition.

ASH Ireland launched the campaign to outlaw smoking in cars last February, after a study revealed children were breathing in deadly amounts of tobacco fumes when travelling in cars with parents who smoke.

The lobby group believed a study by the Tobacco Research Unit in Ontario, Canada, was more than enough to convince the Government to introduce a car smoking ban to protect children under the age of 16.