Drivers looking for good Ford deals could stand to be affected by calls for smoking to be banned in cars.
According to the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), passive smoking places a large burden on the NHS, as care and treatment costs £23.3 million a year.
It has therefore suggested that the smoking ban which applies to public places be extended to other areas, such as private vehicles.
The RCP’s recommendations have been backed by Professor Terence Stephenson of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
“We should be making cars totally smoke-free if there are children travelling in them,” he commented.
He stated that second-hand smoke has been found to be strongly linked with cot death, asthma and chest infections in children.
The Scottish government has so far ruled out the possibility of implementing the RCP’s proposals, although it said it acknowledges that private cars are one of the “main places for exposure of children to second-hand smoke”.
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