Nursery World - Car smoking ban comes into force tomorrow

Smoking in cars when children are present will be illegal from 1 October.

The new law aims to protect children from the dangers of secondhand smoke, considered to be especially dangerous for under-18s.

Police will have the power to issue £50 on-the-spot fines to the smoker, and if you are both the smoker and the driver you could be fined twice.

There are some exceptions: the law will not apply to e-cigarettes; 17-year-olds will not be fined if they are smoking in a car on their own; and the law does not apply to smoking in a convertible with the roof down. However, drivers and passengers can be fined if they are smoking with the car parked and the door open, or if they are smoking in the car with the window open.

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