Is smoking banned in the car when children are present?

Experts are sure: smoking in the car is a danger to all passengers. Already after a cigarette in the car air values ​​are reached, as they usually prevail in a smoker's pub - even if a window is open.

It is all the more incomprehensible for many that parents still smoke in the car while their children are on board. But that should change now - because politicians demand the smoking ban at the wheel, if minors ride along!

What is planned?

The proposal comes from the SPD in Schleswig-Holstein. The comrades are not in power here, but demand from the opposition, the smoking ban in the car when children travel with them: "Passive smoking is a danger to our children," says the SPD health politician Tobias von Pein, who is jointly responsible for the application ,



The plan of the northern SPD: The state government of Schleswig-Holstein (CDU, Greens, FDP) should bring the proposal in the federal government and urge to enforce the ban in Germany.

Smoking ban at the wheel - what is the situation in other countries?

Some other countries in Europe have already banned smoking in the car when minors are on board. The prohibition applies, inter alia, in Greece, if children under 12 years on board. In Cyprus, the age limit is 16 years. Other countries are even more stringent: Britain, Austria or France, for example, prohibit smoking when people under the age of 18 travel with them.

In Italy, the rules are particularly strict: Here may not be smoked when pregnant women sitting in the car - in the case of breaches threaten punishments of up to 5000 €!



Even European countries, where smoking with children on board is not yet prohibited, discuss such a regulation - in Germany, however, the advance has not come so far. Here comes the discussion now by the SPD from Kiel in the conversation?

82 percent of adults support banning smoking when kids are in the car (March 2024).



Car, SPD, smoker, driving a car, Schleswig-Holstein, smoking ban, Germany