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Is there public support for banning smoking in motor vehicles?

¹ Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer Control, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia
² The Cancer Council Western Australia, West Perth, Western Australia

Correspondence to:
G Jalleh
g.jalleh@curtin.edu.au

Keywords: environmental tobacco smoke; children; health effects

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In Australia and elsewhere, the evidence on adverse health effects of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) has resulted in legislation restricting smoking in enclosed public places and most workplaces. While there is considerable momentum to restrict smoking voluntarily in Australian homes,¹ adults and children continue to be exposed to ETS in motor vehicles.^2,3 Advocacy to promote smoke-free cars when children are on board began at least as far back as 1994 in Australia,⁴ and in 1995 the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council recommended such a ban.⁵ Attention to this issue has increased recently following calls by the Australian Medical Association Western Australia, with an increasingly favourable view of bans in the media. Enforcement of legislation banning smoking in vehicles would be far easier than enforcing such legislation in homes, following precedents such as the policing of seat belt, baby restraints, and mobile phone use in cars. Banning smoking in . . . [Full text of this article]

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