Ban Smoking In Motor Vehicles Urge UK Doctors

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An estimated hundreds of thousands of people around the world, including 4,000 adults and 23 children in the UK, die each year because of second-hand smoke, says the briefing paper.

It also describes how second-hand smoke in vehicles can produce toxin levels that are sometimes 23 times higher than those in smoky bars, and how children are more vulnerable to second-hand smoke: they absorb more toxins because of their size and they have underdeveloped immune systems.

The elderly are another vulnerable group because they tend to have more respiratory problems that are aggravated by breathing in second-hand smoke.

Apart from this, smoking is a potential road safety hazard because it distracts drivers, says the paper.

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