[Madhatter]

This is very funny. Have a dig at a smoker doing something absolutely ridiculous with a cigarette, that most normal people smokers or not would find deplorable, and you always get one. My step dad is an alcoholic, I drive a car, I don't see what any of the arguments that anybody has written here have got to do with a parent, or responsible adult smoking a cigarette two feet away from a child in a car. She should be punished, It's damaging the child's health, a child's health that she should be protecting. You say don't take a child in to town, don't take a child in a car, don't let them play out on the road, BUT the easiest to avoid doing out of all the things is smoking in front of the child. Could she really not wait TWO minutes until she lit up, or put it out for two minutes.