Smoking in cars in Northern Ireland - Department of Health replies

Further to last week’s post about smoking in cars in Northern Ireland, I wrote to health minister Robin Swann to clarify his proposed plan.

If you remember (Smoking in cars in Northern Ireland - why did the BBC change its story & headline?) there was some confusion as to whether the plan was to ban smoking in cars carrying children - as in the rest of the UK - or go further and include all cars with more than one person, which is radically different.

On Monday I received the following reply which specifies that a child must be present for an offence to be committed.

Smoking therefore will continue to be allowed in cars when only adults are present.

Good to have that cleared up.