[jambutty]

I have never said anything other than smoking in front of children is bad.

No! You won’t argue the car point because you cannot. Tell me again how it is not bad for kids to be pushed along in a push chair or taken by the hand and led around town amidst the traffic with exhaust fumes being pumped directly into their faces. You are right it isn’t equally the same – it is worse.

Strange how during the last ten years the incidence of asthma in the young has increased sharply when the smoking population has decreased a lot and there are more cars on the road today than there were ten years ago.

A darn sight fresher than having cigarette smoke pumped into you from two foot away when being trapped in a car with a smoker!

Really Gayle? I’ll tell you what - you lock me in a car for an hour and I will smoke 20 cigarettes whilst at the same time you lock yourself in a medium sized garage with a car and it’s engine running.

Guess who will come out if not feet first then at least unconscious. It won’t be me!

Real fresh air in the country Gayle? Which country would that be? Antarctica perhaps and maybe at the top of the highest mountain ranges but not down here. This precious fresh air that people keep on about contains 3% less oxygen than it did 50 years ago, with more CO2 plus a vast cocktail of chemicals pumped into the atmosphere from industry and aircraft.

You like most other anti smoking brigade are as two faced as they come with their tut tutting when a smoker appears on the horizon, yet will happily jump into their cars and drive away spewing out noxious fumes from the exhaust likely as not straight into some kid’s face.