Call to end legislation delay banning smoking in cars

Legislation to ban smoking in cars where children are present has yet to be enacted, almost two years after senators proposed the ban, which has been endorsed by the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland.

The RCPI, the country’s largest postgraduate training body for doctors, has also called for all publicly funded institutions, particularly hospitals and academic campuses, to be made smoke-free.

The call comes in advance of the 10-year anniversary of the workplace smoking ban, introduced on March 29 2004.