700 medics and health experts call for car smoking ban
Around 700 health experts and medics have called upon on the Government to ban smoking in cars carrying children ahead of a Commons vote on Monday.
700 health experts and medics call for car smoking ban
Around 700 health experts and medics have called upon on the Government to ban smoking in cars carrying children ahead of a Commons vote on Monday.
In a letter to the British Medical Journal (BMJ), respiratory experts said secondhand smoke was a "major cause of ill health in children", damaging the developing lungs, causing sudden infant death and leading to thousands of hospital trips every year.
Signatories to the letter are being coordinated by Dr Nicholas Hopkinson from Imperial College London and chairman of the British Thoracic Society's chronic obstructive pulmonary disease specialist advisory group.
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